Five of the top 10 most wishlisted games on Steam are coming to Xbox Game Pass as day one releases, including eagerly awaited titles such as Manor Lords and Hollow Knight: Silksong. This marks an excellent time to be an Xbox Game Pass subscriber, as Microsoft keeps adding several amazing games to its subscription service.
Xbox Game Pass started in 2017, and it has steadily grown to be one of the most important subscription services in the gaming industry. While the growth of Game Pass subscriptions is slowing down, the service continues to be greatly popular, and it often offers several excellent games. In 2024 alone, subscribers have already had the chance to try Resident Evil 2’s remake, Dead Island 2, Persona 3 Reload, Harold Halibut, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, for example.
Now, five of the ten most wishlisted games on Steam are confirmed to become day one Game Pass releases: Manor Lords, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Frostpunk 2, STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl, and ARK 2. This showcases a diversity of genres, as the list includes a shooter, a Metroidvania platformer, a survival game, a city builder, and a strategy game. Other popular Steam games that are not confirmed to appear in the service are Hades 2, Black Myth: Wukong, The First Descendant, Unrecord, and Blight: Survival.
Most of these day one releases are expected to be out in 2024. From these confirmed games, Manor Lords is launching soon on April 26, followed by Frospunk 2 on July 25, and STALKER 2 on September 5. Hollow Knight: Silksong and ARK 2 still do not have official release dates. The long wait for Silksong, specifically, is frustrating many Hollow Knight fans. Gamers expected to see Hollow Knight: Silksong appearing at the recent Nintendo Indie Showcase event, but the eagerly awaited Metroidvania was nowhere to be seen.
Apart from these popular Steam games, Xbox Game Pass has several other eagerly awaited 2024 games set to launch as day one releases. The list includes some first-party titles, such as Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Avowed, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Xbox Game Pass has been regularly adding more games to its catalog in 2024. Earlier today, Game Pass added four games, for example, with three of them being unexpected additions. Console gamers can now play NHL 24, and PC players gained access to Populous: The Beginning, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack, and SimCity 3000 Unlimited.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft's flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
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Microsoft has officially announced the four games that are coming to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service in the first half of May 2024. New games are added to Xbox Game Pass in two waves every month. The first wave typically takes up the first 15 days of the month, while the second wave comes in the back-half of any given month. As expected, Microsoft has now revealed all the games coming in the first wave of new Xbox Game Pass additions for May 2024.
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