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Xbox Game Pass Adds New Indie Favorites After Price Drop

In what sounds like a win-win for gamers, Xbox Game Pass it’s new low price and a host of new indie titles coming to the service through the end of April. Leading the way is Vampire Crawler, a deck-building game in the sequel to 2022’s Vampire Survivors.

Xbox Game Passa CNET Editors’ Choice award, offers a wide selection of games to play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series SXbox One and PC or mobile device for less $10 per month. With a premium Game Pass Ultimate subscription ($23 per month), you can access hundreds of games, including new ones the day they’re released, each month.

Here are the games that Microsoft has made available (or will soon make available) on Game Pass. You can also check out other games that the company added the feature to earlier this month, including Hades 2and many other options in our list of the best game subscriptions.


Little Rocket Lab

Now available on Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass.

Morgan is an engineer who is determined to fulfill his family’s dream: to build a rocket. In this cozy machine-building RPG, you’ll design smart things, transform local resources and help rebuild a struggling community along the way. Every invention brings you closer to our day, where ingenuity and problem solving are the only ways to get that rocket off the ground.


Sopa: The Tale of the Stolen Potato

Now available on Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass.

A small work turns into a wonderful journey into a vivid, dreamlike world shaped by culture and memory. Wander through lush landscapes, meet cute characters and collect curious ingredients as you follow the path of a long-lost visitor. Along the way, the journey becomes a heartfelt story about heritage, family and the moments that stay with us.


Vampire Crawlers

Now available on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass,

Jump into a turn-based roguelite that combines chaotic dungeon crawling with deck building from the team behind Vampire Survivors. Explore twisted corridors, fight endless enemies and accumulate wild cards that can reach super powers. Whether you’re planning each move or fluctuating at speed, each run rewards experimentation as your build grows unpredictable and unstoppable.


Kiln

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on April 23.

Mold, burn and fight with your hand-crafted creations in an epic multiplayer brawler where creativity meets mayhem. Paint unique pottery, and bring them to life in arena battles where every crack and collision matters. As uniformity occurs, creativity turns to competition, challenging you to create designs that can withstand punishment and eliminate opposition.


Aphelion

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on April 28.

Set in a frozen world, navigate a third-person sci-fi adventure where survival depends on both stamina and communication. Go through a difficult environment and solve changing realities as you switch between two astronauts, each offering a different perspective on the difficult mission of staying alive. Combining grounded science with emotional storytelling, each step forward presents new dangers and deeper stakes.


Trapang2

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass on April 29.

Outrun enemies in a brutal, high-speed FPS where raw power and precision take center stage. Move through close-quarters battlefields, time slows down, dodging incoming fire and unleashing massive power in tight, chaotic encounters. Every battle pushes you to keep up your aggression, bonding skills and explosives to carve out an endless path of destruction.


Mighty Heroes and Magic: Olden Era (Game Preview)

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on April 30.

Return to the roots of the popular strategy series in this prequel that combines classic turn-based combat with modern scale. Build empires, command massive armies and unlock powerful spells as you defeat opponents across dynamic maps. Whether playing alone or against others, each battle becomes a test of tactics, resource management and long-term strategy.


Sledding Game (Game Preview)

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on April 30.

Slide, crash and laugh your way down snowy hills in a chaotic multiplayer sandbox where speed and style are as important as survival. Pull off crazy tricks, build your own ramp and jump into ragdoll wipeouts while chatting with nearby players, turning every run into a combination of competition and hangout.


TerraTech Legion

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass on April 30.

Build, rebuild and customize a machine on the fly as you make your way through endless hordes of AI enemies in this fast-paced roguelike. Each run drops you into a hostile world where every block you add, from wheels to lasers, reshapes the way your vehicle moves and fights, turning survival into a constant balance of crafting and destroying. As the tides grow and the bosses get closer, success is found in changing your structure, discarding upgrades and carving your way through enemy outposts before the planet is completely overrun.


Last dream V

Coming to Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass on May 5.

Final Fantasy V is the only SNES Final Fantasy game that never made it to the US when it was first released in 1992. It has since been localized for multiple platforms and is the latest retro Final Fantasy game to be included in Game Pass. The world is threatened by evil, and it’s up to teams of heroes to save it.


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Game Pass Essential subscribers have 2 more games now

Game Pass Essential costs $10 per month and offers access to a smaller library of games compared to Game Pass Premium and Ultimate. While Microsoft doesn’t always include many games in the Essential library, the company added these two on April 8.

Games that have left the service

More games are coming to Game Pass in April, but the service is also losing a portion of games. There will be nine games left on April 30, which means it’s time to finish it before it’s gone forever.

For more on Xbox, find out other games available on Game Pass now, read our hands-on review gaming service and learn what the Game Pass program is it’s good for you.



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