Xbox Game Pass: You can now play Frostpunk 2 and more games
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate – a CNET Editors’ Choice award pick – offers hundreds of games to play on your Xbox Series $20 per month. With a subscription you get access to a large library of games with new titles added monthly, such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, plus other benefits such as online multiplayer and offers on non-Game Pass titles.
Read more: What you need to know about the Xbox Game Pass standard
Microsoft recently gave subscribers access to Age of Mythology: Retold and other games, and the company added these games for the service in September.
Frostpunk 2 (PC)
In this city building survival game, you will be asked to make the tough decisions needed to ensure your community survives in an arctic apocalypse. Set 30 years after the events of the award-winning Frostpunk, play as the Steward, who takes control of the city after the original game’s character Captain dies. The city is struggling with overcrowding, food and coal shortages, among other things. It’s up to you to build shelter and provide everyone with enough food while dealing with the factions vying for power. This game is only available to PC subscribers, including PC and Ultimate Game Pass subscribers.
War Grave 2
Control the land, sea and air in this Fire Emblem-style turn-based tactics game. It’s been three years since the Queen of Aurania died, and now a foreign faction discovers forbidden technology on the coast. It’s up to you and a cast of new characters, including a dog in armor just now the best boy – to stop these factions from wreaking havoc across the country.
Ara: History Untold (PC)
Get ready to build and lead a nation in this turn-based grand strategy game. You can explore unique areas and biomes, develop your own culture and art, and conduct diplomacy with other countries. If diplomacy fails, you can wage strategic warfare. Currently, this game is only available to PC subscribers. This means you need a PC Game Pass or Ultimate subscription to play.
Games that have left Game Pass
While Microsoft added these three games to Game Pass, it also removed nine others. This means that you will have to purchase these games separately if you want to complete your campaign or any side quests.
For more on Xbox, here’s what you need to know about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, other games now available on Game Pass Ultimate, and our hands-on review of the gaming service. You can also find out which Game Pass subscription suits you best.
Check this out: Live recap of Gamescom opening night
