Xbox Game Pass 2025: what’s new and what’s worth playing?

It’s easy to see why Xbox Game Pass is so popular. As well as letting Xbox owners play online, the cloud-based service includes a mammoth library of games. From blockbuster releases on the day they’re launched including the latest Call Of Duty to cult classics such as Balatro and Among Us, there’s something for everyone.

Even with the controversial price hike, Xbox Game Pass can still offer incredible value for money. The cheapest Essential tier gives you access to a library of 50 games for £9.99 a month. The new Premium tier is £14.99 and includes a library of 200+ games and access to all new Xbox published games within a year of them launching, with the exception of Call Of Duty. Ultimate is now £29.99 a month and is the only tier of Xbox Game Pass that will let you play Day One releases. More than 75 Day One titles are coming over the next 12 months. The biggest issue is knowing where to start. To help you navigate through the 500 different options available, we’ve cherry-picked the best for every situation below.

The single-player games that will take up all of your free time

Xbox Game Pass has plenty of epic, single-player games just waiting for you to plough hours of your spare time into. Why not get ahead of the second season of Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout by diving into the brilliantly surreal Fallout: New Vegas or, if you fancy something a little more fantastical, there’s the recently released Wuchang: Fallen Feathers which looks gorgeous and has a wonderfully frustrating string of baddies to obliterate.

The best single-player titles on Xbox Game Pass:

• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
• Atomfall
• Avowed
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Dishonoured
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Far Cry 4
• Grand Theft Auto 5
• Indiana Jones And The Great Circle
• Mass Effect
• Resident Evil 2
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
  

The co-op games perfect for a cutesy night in

We think the best thing about Xbox Game Pass is how the service introduces gamers to new experiences. From a no-pressure opportunity to try out an entirely different genre to the many couch co-op games that provide a perfect entry point for newcomers, it’s all about taking a chance. If you’ve got a video game sceptic in your life, why not invite them over for a session with the charming It Takes Two or the manic kitchen drama Overcooked! 2. They’ll be hooked in no time.

The best co-op titles on Xbox Game Pass:

• A Way Out
• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled 
• Diablo 4
• It Takes Two
• Kingdom Two Crowns
• Moving Out 2
• Overcooked! 2
• Plateup!
• Unravel
• Ultimate Chicken Horse

The multiplayer games that’ll have you sweating

An Xbox Game Pass subscription gives you access to a range of competitive multiplayer titles – and a never-ending stream of opponents to go up against. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 is a fast-paced shooter that requires skill, cunning and, most importantly, a super-quick trigger finger while chaotic sci-fi sports game Rocket League is hideously addictive. It might be best to clear your diary now.

The best multiplayer titles on Xbox Game Pass:

• Borderlands 3
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Goldeneye 007
• Halo Infinite
• Forza Horizon 5
• Need for Speed Unbound
• Rocket League
• Star Wars Battlefront 2
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege X

The best games for a quick 30-minute blast after work/school

As great as a sprawling and intricate story-driven game can be, sometimes you just want to blow off some steam and not think too hard about it. Luckily, there’s plenty in the impressive Xbox Game Pass library that offers just such a quick fix. The remastered Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy brings together three of the greatest platformers ever released while Doom: The Dark Ages drops you in the middle of an alien warzone, sufficiently equipped to cause as much mindless chaos as possible. The only problem we can foresee is that you’ll have too much fun.

The best pick-up-and-play titles on Xbox Game Pass: 

• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts
• Ball x Pit
• Farming Simulator 25
• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
• Doom: The Dark Ages
• EA Sports FC 25
• Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition
• Disney Dreamlight Valley
• Minecraft
• The Sims 4
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4
• Vampire Survivors

The hidden gems

Xbox Game Pass is filled with modern day blockbusters and legendary classics. However, the service also hosts a whole load of cult brilliance that’s just as entertaining, engaging and exciting as anything else in this list. Balatro is a fiendish evolution of iconic card game poker that’s as smart as it is fun while Hi-Fi Rush provides fast-paced rhythm-based actionset to a killer soundtrack. Prepare to have your mind blown over and over again by the below…

The best hidden gems on Xbox Game Pass:

• Balatro
• Blue Prince
• Control
• Crime Scene Cleaner 
• Hollow Knight
• Hi-Fi Rush
• High On Life
• Psychonauts 2
• South Of Midnight
• Subnautica

The recent additions

Microsoft is constantly adding new titles to Xbox Game Pass and typically announces them in two waves every month. This is what has been added to the service recently:

• Sniper Elite Resistance (November 5)
• Egging On (November 6 – Ultimate only)
• Whiskerwood (November 6 – Ultimate only)
• Voidtrain (November 7)
• Great God Grove (November 7)
• Lara Croft And The Temple Of Osiris (November 11)
• Pigeon Simulator (November 11 – Ultimate only)
• Relic Hunter Legends (November 12)
• Winter Burrow (November 12 – Ultimate only)
• Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 (November 14 – Ultimate only)
• Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault ( November 19 – Ultimate only)
• Kulebra And The Souls Of Limbo (November 19)
• Revenge Of The Savage Planet (November 19)
• Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road ­(November 20 – Ultimate only)
• The Crew Motorfest ­(November 20 – Ultimate only)
• Banishers: Ghost Of New Eden ­(November 25)
• Kill It With Fire! 2 ­(November 25)
• Marvel Cosmic Invasion (December 1 – Ultimate only)
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (December 1)
• Monster Train 2 (December 1)
• Spray Paint Simulator ­­(December 1)
• 33 Immortals (December 4 – Ultimate only)
• Routine (December 4 – Ultimate only)
• A Game About Digging A Hole (December 9)
• Death Howl (December 9)
• Dome Keeper (December 9)
• Mortal Kombat 1 (December 10)
• Bratz: Rhythm & Style (December 11)

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Every title available on Xbox Game Pass:

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33 Immortals (Game Preview) (Ultimate)
9 Kings (Ultimate)
A Game About Digging A Hole
A Plague Tale: Requiem
A Way Out (Ultimate)
Abiotic Factor
Abiotic Factor (Ultimate)
Against the Storm
Against the Storm (Ultimate)
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Age of Mythology: Retold
Age of Mythology: Retold (Ultimate)
Alice: Madness Returns
Aliens: Dark Descent
Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Among Us
An Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire
Anno 1800
Another Crab’s Treasure
Ara: History Untold
Ark: Survival Ascended
Ark: Survival Evolved: Explorer’s Edition
Ark: Ultimate Survivor Edition
Army of Two
Art of Rally
Arx Fatalis
As Dusk Falls
Ashen
Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Origins
Assassin’s Creed 2 (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed 3 Remastered (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed 4 Black Flag: Freedom Cry (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India (Ultimate
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
Assassin’s Creed Revelations (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Ultimate)
Assassin’s Creed The Ezio Collection (Ultimate)