Summary
Xbox Game Pass Ultimatehas addedGigantic: Rampage Editionand the console versions ofStarbound. Both titles are now also available on the Standard tier ofXbox Game Pass, having arrived alongside five other games.
Before Microsoftlaunched Xbox Game Pass Standard in September 2024, all additions to its content catalog were available across every non-Core tier of the service. Since then, day-one releases became exclusive to XGP Ultimate and PC Game Pass, with many of them eventually reaching the Standard-tier library following a six-month delay.
Standard
Console
Cloud, Console, PC
Day-one release; exact release date TBA.
Microsoft’s subscription service has five more confirmed games for January 2025. The first of those will arrive on the 28th in the form ofEternal StrandsandOrcs Must Die! Deathtrap, the former of which is a day-one title.Shady Part of Meis then slated to drop on January 29, followed by the day-one release ofSniper Elite: Resistanceon the 30th. Another day-one title,Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, is then scheduled to arrive on January 31. That’s also the datewhen Xbox Game Pass will lose half a dozen titles, including Acid Nerve’s critically acclaimed action adventureDeath’s Door.
Moving forward,Far Cry New Dawnis coming to all non-Core tiers of Xbox Game Pass on February 4. Ubisoft’s open-world shooter will hence kick off the first wave of February 2025 additions to the service. February 4 may also see Microsoft reveal the rest of next month’s Wave 1 lineup, not least because the company has historically favored scheduling such announcements for Tuesdays.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
