Setting itself apart from the competition, players on the Xbox One have two options when it comes to purchasing first-party Microsoft Game Studios titles and several notable second/third party works. One can either buy each game individually or take advantage of the monthly ‘Xbox Game Pass’ subscription service which provides access to a rotation collection of over one hundred games at one standard price.
If you are currently an active subscriber, this week, the Xbox team added a range of new titles to the platform. These include:
Night Call
As a cab driver working the Paris night shift, you’re many things to different people: friend, confidant, counsellor, voyeur. You have the keen ability to get people to talk; and that’s exactly what you’ll need to do. In seven nights, a corrupt detective plans to pin a series of murders on you unless you can aid the investigation. Pick up passengers, listen to their stories, and gather clues to solve a mystery in three unique cases.
Observation
A sci-fi thriller uncovering what happened to Dr. Emma Fisher, and the crew of her mission, through the lens of the station’s artificial intelligence S.A.M. Players assume the role of S.A.M. by operating the station’s control systems, cameras, and tools to assist Emma in discovering what is happening to the station, the vanished crew, and S.A.M. himself.
Streets of Rogue
A rogue-lite about player choice, freedom, and anarchic fun. Taking inspiration from fast-paced top-down rogue-lites, that adds free-form, experimentation-driven, emergent gameplay elements of immersive sims and RPGs. Rather than taking place in a dungeon, the game is set in a functioning, procedurally generated city, where complex AI informs denizens from all walks of life who are going about their daily activities.
The Messenger
Already available on PC, welcome to Console! As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humour.
But with new games, comes the removal of several titles from the service. The following will be removed from the platform effective Tuesday 30 June 2020, so be sure to finish up your play sessions with them by then, or purchase them outright via the Xbox Marketplace with a discount of 20%.
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (PC)
- Die for Valhalla! (PC)
- Life is Strange 2 (Console)
- Metal Slug X (Console & PC)
- Metro Exodus (Console & PC)
- Neon Chrome (Console & PC)
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (Console & PC)
- SteamWorld Dig 2 (Console & PC)
- The Flame in the Flood (Console & PC)
