These 17 Xbox games will make you want to pick up Game Pass in 2025

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is a dice-based role-playing game set in the Starward Belt, a collection of dilapidated habitats located in an asteroid belt. Players take on the role of a Sleeper, an escaped android whose body malfunctions and has no memory of his past. He is on the run from both the corporation that created him and a criminal gang. The game is inspired by table games, where choices depend on a roll of the dice. Players will need to commandeer a ship, build a crew, and accept contracts to survive. The game features a new “Push” ability for each class, allowing players to customize their character. Players will explore a vast and varied world, choosing which locations and stories to pursue. The game is developed by Jump Over The Age and published by Fellow Traveler.

• Release date: January 31, 2025

Avowed

Avowed is a first-person fantasy action game set in the Living Lands, a mysterious island in the world of Eora. As an envoy from a distant land, the player investigates a spreading epidemic, discovering a personal connection to the island and an ancient secret that threatens to destroy everything. Players will explore various landscapes and engage in visceral combat using swords, spells, guns, and shields. Companions of different species will join the player’s journey, with their unique abilities and personal quests.

• Release date: February 18, 2025

Football Manager 25 is a simulation, sports and strategy game in which players manage a football club and create their own football universe. The game features the new Premier League license and introduces women’s football to the series. The game is developed by Sports Interactive and published by SEGA. The game has been updated with a new engine to improve visuals and player animations, as well as a friendlier user interface.

• Release date: March 2025

Replaced

REPLACED is a retro-futuristic 2.5D sci-fi action platformer set in an alternate 1980s America. The player controls REACH, an artificial intelligence trapped in a human body, who navigates a world dystopian in and around Phoenix-City after a nuclear event. The game features cinematic platforming, pixel art, and smooth action combat.

Subnautica 2

Subnautica 2 is an open water survival game set on a new alien ocean world, developed by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Players can explore various biomes and encounter various creatures, craft tools, vehicles and bases, as well as study life forms and even evolve their genetics. The game can be played alone or with up to three friends in online cooperative mode.

Fable

Fable is an upcoming action role-playing game set in the fairyland of Albion, where players will define what it means to be a hero. The game features sword fighting and magic, and players will face legendary beasts and a giant named Dave. The game is developed by Playground Games and published by Xbox Game Studios. This is a reboot of the series, with the characteristic British humor of the originals.

The Alters

The Alters is an upcoming adventure game with survival and base-building elements, developed and published by 11 bit studios. Players will take on the role of Jan Dolski, a worker stranded on a hostile planet where even sunlight is deadly. To survive, Jan must create alternate versions of himself, called alters, using a local substance. Each alter has a different personality and past, based on the choices Jan made in her past, and players must manage relationships with these alters. The game also features base management, where players must move a mobile base across the landscape to avoid radiation. Players will need to gather resources to maintain the base and survive in an inhospitable environment. The game focuses on the consequences of past decisions and the choices players will have to make to survive.

FBC: Firebreak

FBC: Firebreak is a cooperative first-person shooter set in the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), assailed by otherworldly forces. Players will take on the role of a member of the FBC’s Firebreak Unit, the Bureau’s most versatile unit, and dive into the strangest crises to restore order. This three-player cooperative FPS emphasizes quick thinking and teamwork as players face paranatural crises in unexpected places. Players will be able to customize their loadouts with weapons, tools, grenades, and paranatural accessories. The game is developed and published by Remedy Entertainment.

Chiaroscuro: Expedition 33

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based role-playing game with real-time mechanics, developed by Sandfall Interactive and published by Kepler Interactive. Players will lead Expedition 33 on a quest to destroy the Painter, who paints a cursed number every year that causes people of that age to disappear. The game takes place in a fantasy world inspired by Belle Époque France, where players face unique enemies. Gameplay combines turn-based combat with real-time actions such as dodging, parrying and countering, as well as chaining together combos and targeting enemy weak spots using a free aiming system. Players will create unique characters using gear, stats, skills, and character synergies, and explore an enchanting realm populated by surreal adversaries. The game features mature content, with depictions of violence, blood, and suicide.

Winter Burrow

Winter Burrow is a woodland survival game where players take on the role of a mouse who returns home to restore his childhood burrow. The game involves exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and meeting local characters. Players will have to brave the elements to find resources and solve the mystery of their aunt’s disappearance. The game allows for character customization and offers a relaxing pace of play. It is developed by Pine Creek Games and published by Noodlecake.

33 Immortals

33 Immortals is an upcoming action roguelike video game in which players control a damned soul fighting through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven to challenge a cruel God. The game supports 33-player cooperative multiplayer, with gaming sessions comparable to MMO raid missions. Players are first divided into teams and must complete mini-dungeons, unlock relics and unleash the wrath of God. The session ends with a boss fight, and each session includes randomly generated enemies, challenges, and rewards. Players can customize their avatar and use 14 different weapons. The game is developed and published by Thunder Lotus Games.

DOOM: The Dark Ages

DOOM: The Dark Ages is a single-player action first-person shooter (FPS) game and a prequel to DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal. Players take on the role of the DOOM Slayer, a demon-slaying warrior, and experience the character’s origin story. The game takes place in a medieval war against hell. The game will include blood and gore, intense violence and strong language. The game is developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.

Wuchang Fallen Feathers

WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers is an action role-playing game set in the late Ming Dynasty. Players take on the role of Wuchang, an amnesiac pirate warrior suffering from a mysterious illness. Players explore the land of Shu, improving their skills and battling monstrous creatures, their choices leading to one of several endings. The game contains violence and blood, as well as some nudity. The game is developed by Leenzee and published by 505 Games.

South of Midnight

South of Midnight is a third-person action-adventure game set in the Deep South of the United States. Players take on the role of Hazel, who must explore a world of southern folklore and face mythical creatures. Hazel is a “weaver”, who uses magical abilities to mend broken bonds and spirits. She will have to face dangerous creatures, unravel her family’s past and try to find a place to call home. The game is developed by Compulsion Games and published by Xbox Game Studios.

Dead Static Drive

Dead Static Drive is an independent survival horror game developed and published by Reuben Games. The game, described as “Grand Theft Cthulhu,” follows a nightmarish road trip across 1980s America. Players take on the role of Hearst, who must scavenge, fight, sneak and explore to figure out what happened to his parents and the rest of the world. The game addresses themes of eerie fiction and Eldritch horror.

The Outer Worlds 2

The Outer Worlds 2 is a first-person science fiction role-playing game and the sequel to the award-winning The Outer Worlds. Players will embark on an action-packed adventure with a new crew, new weapons, and new enemies in a new colony. As an agent of the Earth Directorate, players will investigate the devastating rifts that threaten humanity and explore the colony of Arcadia which is engulfed in factional warfare. Players will build their character, recruit companions, and shape the fate of the colony based on their decisions. The game is developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios.

Mixtape

Mixtape is an upcoming adventure game in which players experience the memories of three friends from their last party in high school. Players will explore friends’ memories through a series of narrative vignettes. The game features a wide variety of activities, including skateboarding, flying, and taking photos. It’s inspired by classic coming-of-age films and features Music from artists like DEVO, Roxy Music and The Smashing Pumpkins. The game is developed by Beethoven and Dinosaur and published by Annapurna Interactive.