If you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber or planning on getting a subscription, you might wanna perk your ears up. Microsoft has just announced new titles coming to Game Pass for PC and console in late January. The list includes Outer Wilds, the Yakuza Remastered Collection, and the critically acclaimed Control from Remedy (Max Payne, Adam Wake).
Coming January 21st:
- Control (PC)
After a secretive agency in New York is invaded by an otherworldly threat, you become the Director struggling to regain control. This third-person, action-adventure game will challenge you to master a combination of supernatural abilities that will keep you on the edge of your seat. - Desperados III (Android, Console and PC)
Desperados III is the long-awaited prequel to Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. A story-driven, tactical stealth game featuring a colorful cast of characters that epitomize the Wild West, Desperados III takes players on an adventure through rural towns, swamps, and riverbanks, to their ultimate, gun-slinging showdown! - Donut County (Android, Console, and PC)
Donut County is a story-based, physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole. - Outer Wilds (Android)
Explore for the sake of your curiosity. With a hand-crafted solar system filled with secrets to discover and perils to avoid while exploring space. Players are given a variety of tools to aid in their space-backpacking adventure. Their very own spaceship and jetpack, a surveyor probe for scouting and taking pictures. And a signal scope to track down audio signals as well as view landmarks from afar.
Coming January 26th:
- Cyber Shadow (Android, Console, and PC)
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. Slash through the techno hordes, leap past traps, and nimbly navigate the ruins of Mekacity. Only you can unlock the secrets to your clan’s ancient powers in Cyber Shadow, the quintessential Ninja Action game.
Coming January 28th:
- The Medium (Xbox Series X/S and PC)
Available with Xbox Game Pass on day one! Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Travel to an abandoned hotel resort. And use your unique psychic abilities to uncover its deeply disturbing secrets. Solve dual-reality puzzles, survive encounters with sinister spirits, and explore two realities at the same time. - The Yakuza Remastered Collection
- Yakuza 3 Remastered (Android, Console, and PC)
In a quest to abandon their bloody past, Kazuma Kiryu and adoptive daughter Haruka Sawamura leave the unforgiving streets of Kamurocho for the island of Okinawa to run the Morning Glory Orphanage. Despite his efforts, trouble shadows Kiryu and the orphanage is soon entangled in a deadly power struggle. Can Kiryu rescue the children’s home and escape his past for good? - Yakuza 4 Remastered (Android, Console, and PC)
A murder in Tojo Clan territory soon sets off an investigation by a small Tojo branch consisting of Kazuma Kiryu, Masayoshi Tanimura, Shun Akiyama, and Taiga Saejima. Follow the four playable protagonists as they unravel a hidden battle over money, power, status, and honor and a mysterious woman at the center of it all. With underground forces readily willing to kill to protect their secrets, the search seems to lead to more questions than answers.
- Yakuza 5 Remastered (Android, Console, and PC)
Kazuma Kiryu’s newfound calm as an unassuming cab driver comes to a sudden end as the standing peace between the Tojo Clan and Omi Alliance disintegrates. Forced to reckon with his past once more, the Dragon of Dojima returns to the criminal underworld to protect those he holds dear. With five playable protagonists across five major cities, follow Kiryu and his allies in their quest to navigate the corrupt underbelly and prevent an all-out turf war…
- Yakuza 3 Remastered (Android, Console, and PC)
Leaving January 29th
These games will no longer be available on XBox Games Pass as of January 29th.
- Death Squared (Console)
- Death’s Gambit (PC)
- Final Fantasy XV (Console and PC)
- Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour (Console and PC)
- Gris (PC)
- Indivisible (Console and PC)
- Reigns: Game of Thrones (PC)
- Sea Salt (Console and PC)
Let us know what you think of the upcoming games in the comments!
Source: Gematsu
