While the first two games added to Xbox Game Pass in January might not knock your socks off, it’s what’s coming later this month that should bring some New Year cheer. By January 13, Game Pass subscribers will have access to Ubisoft’s enormously underrated Star Wars Outlaws, and just a week later the stunning Resident Evil Village brings our favorite tall lady to the service.
Added today, January 6, are drunken twin-stick shooter Brews & Bastards (no, me neither, but I’ll be installing it this evening) and Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition. Then as soon as tomorrow, last year’s underdog first-person action game Atomfall will be added to the subscription platform, alongside 2025 roguelite sequel Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, online multiplayer soccer sim Rematch, and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine‘s Master Crafted Edition, hopefully now fixed from all its many issues on launch.
Then, but another day later, we get the original Final Fantasy in its 2024 “remodeled” version, seemingly plucked from the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster bundle.
You’ll have to somehow wait another five days, until January 13, before the next update, when Star Wars Outlaws arrives, and hopefully a whole new raft of people can discover this fantastic open-galaxy criminal ’em up, after it suffered from both a buggy launch and a concerted anti-woke campaign from the worst people on the internet. Seriously, if you were put off by any of the noise during its 2024 release, this is a great chance to put that right. The stealth is so much better now.
After My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery shows up Jan 15, on the 20th arrives Lady Dimitrescu in her size 25s via 2021’s Resident Evil Village, alongside metroidvania platformer MIO: Memories in Orbit, a day-one release.
Microsoft giveth, but Microsoft taketh away, so to get all these new games we must sacrifice a bunch too. I don’t imagine too many tears will be shed over the five titles going away on January 15, however, all listed below. Here’s everything in one handy, bullet-pointed list:
January 6
- Brews & Bastards (Cloud, PC, Xbox Series)
- Little Nightmares Enhanced Edition (Cloud, Handheld, PC, Xbox Series)
January 7
- Atomfall (Cloud, Console, Handheld, PC)
- Lost in Random: The Eternal Die (Cloud, Xbox Series, Handheld, PC)
- Rematch (Cloud, PC, Xbox Series)
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine – Master Crafted Edition (Cloud, PC, Xbox Series)
January 8
- Final Fantasy (Cloud, Xbox Series, PC)
January 15
- My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery (Cloud, Console, Handheld, PC)
January 20
Resident Evil Village (Cloud, Console, PC)
MIO: Memories in Orbit (Cloud, Handheld, PC, Xbox Series)
Leaving January 15
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Cloud, Handheld, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
- Neon White (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC)
- Road 96 (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC)
- The Ascent (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC)
- The Grinch Christmas Adventures (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC)
