As a kid born in the 80s who was a teen in the 90s - this game hits.

Coming to XBOX Game Pass: Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, Vapor World: Over the Mind, Blood Dungeon, and More - XBOX Wire

Need to try and finish Another Crab's treasure, but my latest save is in amongst giant laser firing crab dudes and I keep getting smoked trying to get past them. Haven't played it in months, but highly recommend. Brilliant little game.

Every Upcoming Game Announced for Game Pass

Here is the full roadmap of all upcoming and Day One titles currently announced for Game Pass Ultimate (61 games total). I will update with any corrections.

Source: https://gamescriptions.com/subscription/service/xbox_ultimate#coming-soon

August 2026 (1 games)

• Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy - Aug 27
• Announcement of additional titles will come this week.

September 2026 (5 games)

• Moonlighter 2 - Sep 2 (Full Release)
• SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed - Sep 3
• Dune: Awakening - Sep 22
• Minecraft Dungeons II - Sep 29
• Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School - Sep 30

October 2026 (5 games)

• Gears of War: E-Day - Oct 6
• Echo Weaver - Oct 8
• Forever Ago - Oct 8
• Valor Mortis - Oct 13
• DayZ: Badlands - Oct TBD

TBD 2026 (25 games)

• Armatus - TBD
• At Fate's End - TBD
• Awaysis - TBD
• Bluey's Happy Snaps - TBD
• Bushiden - TBD
• Darkwood II - TBD
• Deep Dish Dungeon - TBD
• Erosion - TBD
• Freestyle Football 2 - TBD
• Harmonium: The Musical - TBD
• Mariachi Legends - TBD
• Nirvana Noir - TBD
• Raji: Kaliyuga - TBD
• Rogue Carrier - TBD
• Sleight of Hand - TBD
• Snap & Grab - TBD
• Tanuki: Pon's Summer - TBD
• The Eternal Life of Goldman - TBD
• There Are No Ghosts at the Grand - TBD
• Treetopians - TBD
• Tropico 7 - TBD
• Vapor World: Over the Mind - TBD
• Vaunted - TBD
• Wildekin - TBD
• Witchbrook - TBD

January 2027 (1 game)

• Stranger Than Heaven - Jan 15

February 2027 (2 games)

• Persona 4 Revival - Feb 18
• Fable - Feb 23

March 2027 (1 game)

• Join Us - Mar TBD

TBD 2027 (17 games)

• Alien Deathstorm - TBD
• Bad Magpie - TBD
• Clockwork Revolution - TBD
• Crowsworn - TBD
• Magicians: The Devil's Deal - TBD
• Marauders - TBD
• Marvel's Blade - TBD
• Moosa: Dirty Fate - TBD
• Persona 6 - TBD
• Senua - TBD
• Screenbound - TBD
• She Dreams Elsewhere - TBD
• Spyro: A Realm Beyond - TBD
• State of Decay 3 - TBD
• The Expanse: Osiris Reborn - TBD
• Vivarium - TBD
• Way to the Woods - TBD
• Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember - TBD

TBD 2028 and Beyond (4 games)

• Ark II - TBD
• OD: Knock - TBD
• The Elder Scrolls VI - TBD
• Fallout 5 - TBD

It takes a fair amount of effort to stay up to date, so hopefully this is useful. TBD are best guesses. Some games are in question due to recent layoffs and studio sales.

I was lucky enough to get sent a 1 of 30 custom limited edition controller from Focus to celebrate the launch of Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy!

Looks absolutely insane and the details is kinda mind-blowing

This error kept appearing and I changed my region on my Microsoft account multiple times and it still kept appearing. My aunt bought the code on Amazon and sent it to me to redeem.

So I've just finished up my first playthrough of beast of reincarnation at about 24 hours in. Sitting at about half of the achievements and although I doubt I'm going to go for the 100% for it I will say I enjoyed my time. There's a lot of bad said about the game so thought I'd give my piece

Gameplay
Very very sekiro esque. And that's probably why I enjoyed it. I don't think I've really had something scratch the sekiro combat itch quite as well as this game did. Where as there really is not a lot of enemy variety, like around 10-15 different enemies throughout the whole game, the parry deflection combat scratches such an itch for me. The boss fights are also mostly repeats and the loop is essentially go to this area, explore and fight the boss at the end. It works but can be very repetitive

Story
I really wasn't invested in the story a whole lot up until maybe the final 6 chapters but honestly the story I thought was pretty decent. I won't dive deep with it still being new as to avoid spoilers but the story does pick up and it's nice to see your character grow

Upgrades, side quests, exploration etc.
So a lot of upgrades are very cool and really can deepen the combat, just a shame that you'll have learned the moves of pretty much all enemies before ever needing to make a varied moveset. Upgrades to weapons and even your stats didn't really feel like they did much but on that it could well be that it's just good and steady progression as I made my way through the game as I never really returned to earlier areas
Side quests are more just collect item x or defeat special enemy y. There's a couple of actual side quests and theyre alright
Exploration is very fluid I feel. Can feel janky at times but honestly it's a lot better than I expected

To wrap it all up. Would I be disappointed if I paid for the game. Probably yeah. Did I enjoy my time with it though? Yeah. I really did to be fair. It was a great gamepass game that I'm glad I experienced. Did it feel like it dragged on a little too long. Yeah at times. Did the world feel alive with a lot to do. No not really. I do recommend it with it being on game pass and I know my "review" isn't doing it justice but if you're curious, give it a go for a few hours. If you get invested then good. If not then you've probably experienced the majority of what the game will have to offer without experiencing the story conclusions. 6/10, 7/10. Somewhere in that bracket