2024 has been a good year for Xbox Game Pass. This year has seen plenty of first-party Game Pass releases, such as Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Plenty of great indie games have also appeared right alongside them, such as Nine Sols and Palworld. And, of course, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 made history for the subscription service, being the first Call of Duty to launch day-one on Xbox Game Pass, and breaking records for active subscribers as a result.
Xbox Game Pass has set an incredibly high bar for itself ahead of next year. But if everything goes to plan and every game currently slated for 2025 ends up releasing, Xbox Game Pass could live up to the lofty expectations it’s inadvertently placed on itself.
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What Fans Can Expect From Xbox Game Pass in 2025
Every 2025 Xbox Game Pass Title With a Concrete Release Date
Xbox Game Pass is kicking the year off strong, delivering a January line-up that includes five games, including three day-one releases. Two more 2025 Xbox Game Pass titles have also been given concrete release dates for early next year:
- Carrion – January 2
- Road 96 – January 7
- Eternal Strands – January 28
- Sniper Elite: Resistance – January 30
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector – January 31
- Avowed – February 18
- Atomfall – March 27
Of the seven Game Pass titles with a concrete 2025 release date, Obsidian Entertainment’s Avowed is probably the most anticipated of the lot, having been announced all the way back in July 2020. Set in Eora, the same fantasy world as Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity series, Avowed will be an action-RPG that focuses on offering players a diverse set of weapons and abilities.
Developer Rebellion is set to release two games on Xbox Game Pass this year, with Sniper Elite: Resistance hitting the service in January and Atomfall landing in March. While Sniper Elite: Resistance will offer more of the third-person sniping action fans have come to expect from the long-running WW2 franchise, Atomfall will offer a survival game set in an alternate version of the 1960s, where the 1957 Windscale nuclear plant fires have decimated Northern England.
Every Other Xbox Game Pass Title Currently Slated for 2025
Another 16 games are confirmed to be coming to Xbox Game Pass next year, though they only have general 2025 release windows:
- 33 Immortals
- Doom: The Dark Ages
- Fable
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- FBC: Firebreak
- South of Midnight
- Nirvana Noir
- Mixtape
- Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
- The Alters
- Towerborne (Full Release)
- Little Rocket Lab
- Subnautica 2
- Replaced
- Winter Burrow
- Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
There are a good few games on this list that fans have been waiting quite some time for. Fable, for instance, was first announced in 2020, and the franchise’s last mainline entry came all the way back in 2010. Along with Fable, Xbox’s first-party studios are set to release South of Midnight and Doom: The Dark Ages next year, both of which should appear on Game Pass on day one.
It should be noted, however, that as these games don’t have concrete release dates yet, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that some could get delayed out of the year.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
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