may not have been the silver bullet Microsoft hoped for. However, it’s still a way for subscribers to play several free games every month. The second half of May sees the arrival of twelve more games, including a major new release.
Xbox Game Pass Losing 6 Games Today
30.04.2024 - 10:55 / gamerant.com / Xbox Game Pass / Dominik Bo
Ravenlok and five other games are leaving Xbox Game Pass later today, April 30. This wave of outgoing titles will round off an uncharacteristically busy month for Xbox Game Pass in terms of departures.
The popular subscription service removes games from its library twice a month, i.e., once every two weeks. Such catalog updates commonly compromise two or three outgoing titles. But this month marked a deviation from that pattern, with Xbox Game Pass already losing six games on April 15, with another half a dozen being set to depart later today.
And while the mid-April departures were primarily a sad day for the Xbox Game Pass horror library, this newest wave of outgoings spans a much more varied mixture of genres. Specifically, Microsoft's subscription service is now about to lose 7 Days to Die, Besiege, EA Sports NHL 22, Loot River, Pikuniku, and Ravenlok. EA's hockey sim is the sole console-only title from the latest list of departures, as well as the only one that was exclusively available to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. The other five have been offered across all tiers of the service bar Xbox Game Pass Core.
Game
Genre
Added
Platforms
How Long To Beat
7 Days to Die
Survival Horror
April 2022
Cloud, Console, PC
54–450 hours
Besiege
Sandbox Builder
May 2023
Cloud, Console, PC
5–17 hours
EA Sports NHL 22
Hockey Sim
May 2022
Console
60–156 hours
Loot River
Roguelike
May 2022
Cloud, Console, PC
4–10 hours
Pikuniku
Puzzle Adventure
March 2020
Cloud, Console, PC
3–6 hours
Ravenlok
ARPG
May 2023
Cloud, Console, PC
4–5 hours
Xbox Game Pass members looking to make the most of their subscriptions may still be able to beat at least one of these titles before they leave the service, even if they haven't started it yet. Going by How Long To Beat's crowdsourced data, Sectordub and Devolver Digital's Pikuniku is the briefest experience of the lot, being beatable in as little as three hours. Though it's also the game that long-time subscribers had the longest opportunity to beat from this wave of departures, having debuted on Xbox Game Pass back in March 2020.
Beyond that, roguelike Loot River and action RPG Ravenlok are also beatable in just a handful of hours. The latter may be a more compelling proposition for last-minute achievement hunters, as its completionist runs tend to be much shorter. The April 30 Xbox Game Pass departures also include Besiege, a medieval city builder that can be largely experienced in a single day, although its sandbox nature makes it a bit more difficult to define what actually constitutes beating it.
While this is the second time in two weeks that Xbox Game Pass is about to lose half a dozen titles, this month has still been a net positive for the service; following the April
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