Summary
Xbox Game Pass Ultimatehas addedMechWarrior 5: Clansand one returning title to its content library. This library expansion brings the total number of 2024Xbox Game Passreleases to 120.
Microsoft’s cross-platform subscription service added 41 games in the first quarter of 2024, followed by another 43 in Q2. This release pace slowed down over the summer, with the XGP catalog receiving only 30 new titles in Q3. The first few weeks of October were also fairly quiet, including just four releases, the latest of whichlanded on Xbox Game Pass in the form ofSouth Park: The Fractured but Whole.
Microsoft is now following up on that move with a dual-release ofMechWarrior 5: ClansandDonut County, both of which were added to its ever-expanding content catalog on Thursday, October 17. Thelatest entry in theMechWarriorseries is a day-one Xbox Game Pass title, meaning it’s not available to XGP Standard members but requires a higher-tier subscription. While the majority of new additions to the service are still cross-gen titles nowadays,MechWarrior 5: Clansdoesn’t have an Xbox One port. What it does have are promising early reviews, as reflected in its “Strong” rating on OpenCritic, which is based on an aggregate score of 80 and an 83% reviewer recommendation rate.
Cloud and console versions available since February 2024.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Day-one release.
Late October 2024 Will Be a Busy Period for Xbox Game Pass
The XGP catalog is now in for a week-long period of quiet before it gets a trio of releases on October 25. That’s the day whenCall of Duty: Black Ops 6is scheduled to have its day-one debut on the service, arriving alongside the cloud versions ofCoD: Modern Warfare 3andCoD: Warzone. 2019 soulslikeAshenwill then launch on October 29, followed by the PC version ofDead Island 2two days later.
Beyond that, Microsoft has so far confirmed seven more day-one games that will be coming to its subscription service in the final two months of 2024. But before any of them arrive,Xbox Game Pass will lose a handful of titles on October 31.
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.
