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Games confirmed for Xbox Game Pass in 2023

Expect these titles to be included in your subscription

Marco Wutz

Games confirmed for Xbox Game Pass in 2023
Games confirmed for Xbox Game Pass in 2023 /

Xbox Game Pass is a great way for many gamers to discover titles they would never spend money on otherwise, though this broad range of offerings may make it feel a bit bloated to some players. Microsoft also invests heavily to include many games from the day of their release – a practice that continues in 2023.

While the year has just begun and we can expect some surprises along the way, a lot of games for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC are already confirmed to launch on Xbox Game Pass in 2023. Let’s take a look at what Microsoft has up its sleeve.

Games coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2023

  • Guilty Gear: Strive – March 7, 2023 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • Dead Space 2 – March 9, 2023 (Cloud)
  • Dead Space 3 – March 9, 2023 (Cloud)
  • Valheim (Game Preview) – March 14, 2023 (Console)
  • Sid Meier's Civilization 6 – March 16, 2023 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
  • Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom – March 21, 2023 (Console and PC)
  • Redfall – May 2, 2023
  • Exoprimal – July 14, 2023
  • Starfield – September 6, 2023
  • Amnesia: The Bunker – Spring 2023
  • Lightyear Frontier – Spring 2023
  • BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Special Edition – Spring 2023
  • Age of Empires 4 (Console Ed.) – 2023
  • Minecraft Legends – 2023
  • Forza Motorsport – 2023
  • Ara: History Untold – 2023
  • STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl – 2023
  • Lies of P – 2023
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong – 2023
  • Cocoon – 2023
  • Ereban: Shadow Legacy – 2023
  • Party Animals – 2023
  • ARK 2 – 2023
  • Replaced – 2023
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – 2023
  • Planet of Lana – 2023
  • Ravenlok – 2023
  • The Last Case of Benedict Fox – 2023
  • Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes – 2023

It already looks like a strong year for subscribers to the service from this list alone: Numerous first-party games whose release was postponed from 2022 to 2023 are finally slated to launch. Among them are blockbusters like Redfall from Arkane Studios and Starfield from Bethesda, as well as Forza Motorsport for the racing freaks among you.

The indie lineup is also promising – Game Pass already shined by including some of the best indie games in 2022, so the service’s curators can be said to have a really good eye for promising projects. Hollow Knight: Silksong certainly stands out as a highlight here, being highly anticipated after the phenomenal original.

With various games from developers such as Atlus, Capcom, and Arc System Works coming up as well, the range of Japanese titles will also expand, which might convince fans of fighting games and JRPGs to finally subscribe. Japan has so far been a weak spot for Game Pass and Microsoft seems poised to fill this hole in the coming months.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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