Twelve more games are coming to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service in May, adding to the five games that joined the service earlier this month. Little Kitty, Big City, meet the best puzzle game of 2023, Chants of Sennaar.
Chants of Sennaar, the award-winning language puzzle game, lands May 16 but is far from the only major game coming to the service that day. Microsoft will also add Immortals of Aveum (a magic-based first-person shooter) and cloud gaming access for NHL 24.
Later in the month, expect a day-one release of Ninja Theory’s Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, but you won’t want to miss Immortals of Aveum or Chants of Sennaar either. As for NHL 24, console gamers got access in April, but it’ll be available via cloud gaming now, too.
Here’s when all the games are coming in the back half of May, and where you can play them.
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (cloud, console, and Windows PC) — May 14
- Chants of Sennaar (cloud, console, and Windows PC) — May 16
- EA Sports NHL 24 (cloud) — May 16
- Immortals of Aveum (cloud, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X) — May 16
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (cloud, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X) — May 21
- Galacticare (cloud, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X) — May 23
- Hauntii (cloud, console, and Windows PC) — May 23
- Moving Out 2 (cloud, console, and Windows PC) — May 28
- Humanity (cloud, console, and Windows PC) — May 30
- Lords of the Fallen (cloud, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X) — May 30
- Firework (Windows PC) — June 4
- Rolling Hills (cloud, console, and Windows PC) — June 4
Sadly, six games must leave the service, too. You have until May 31 to play the following games, one of which is Chicory: A Colorful Tale, named Polygon’s second best game of the year in 2021.
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale (cloud, console, and Windows PC)
- Farworld Pioneers (cloud, console, and Windows PC)
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (cloud, console, and Windows PC)
- Pac-man Museum Plus (cloud, console, and Windows PC)
- Little Witch in the Woods (cloud, console, and Windows PC)
- Railway Empire II (cloud, console, and Windows PC)
Xbox Game Pass costs $10.99 a month, while PC Game Pass costs $9.99 a month. PC Game Pass includes EA Play access, which offers another 70 games on PC. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, at $16.99 per month, gives subscribers access to everything — the PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass libraries, EA Play on both console and PC — as well as access to online multiplayer. Xbox Game Pass Core (formerly called Xbox Live Gold) costs $9.99 per month or $59.99 per year.
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