

Your moves are minimal but the job needs to be done. No pressure, but your name is also Babyface.

You’re in charge of ensuring the city isn’t taken over by criminals at dawn. You can also check out our interview with Barlow and producer Natalie Watson here. In this case, you are tasked with determining what happened to actress Marissa Marcel. Once again, the player watches hours and hours of footage and tries to navigate it and make sense of it. Sam Barlow’s new game Immortality is particularly fascinating and addictive. Playing at night time? It’ll be night in the game, and some things you can only complete in the morning. Careful, though, it’s a tad addictive, and the game mimics your own time. You’ll encounter all your favourite characters and princesses as you tidy up, plant things and trade valuables. Help out familiar faces to restore their town to its former glory in this Disney life-sim game. The Eagle Bearer plays for both sides, and the player can explore the beautiful and vast open world. Set in ancient Greece, you play as a Spartan mercenary, the Eagle Bearer, during the conflict between Sparta and Athens. We all love a good Assassin’s Creed game, and with more on the way, this is the perfect time to give Odyssey a go. Return to Rainbow Island to discover more fascinating slimes in Slime Rancher 2, the sequel to the popular Slime Rancher! You play as Beatrix LaBeau as she explores the island and its strange resources and encounters a lot of slime. You can play with up to three of your mates to collect food and try to avoid nightmarish spiders. In this game, you have to survive the terrors of an ordinary garden after you’ve shrunk to the size of an ant. Remember Honey, I Shrunk The Kids? Well, Grounded is kind of like that, except way more dangerous and fun. One of them is trying to break it, and the other would do anything to preserve it. In this first-person shooter game, two gifted assassins are stuck in a time loop. Deathloopįrom the makers of Dishonoured comes Deathloop. And there’s no Taylor Swift or Drake to be heard here. Slay your enemies Doom-style to the beat of the music playing. Love Doom? Can you beat all your friends at Guitar Hero? Well, don’t we have the game for you? Metal: Hellsinger seems just too wacky to be true, but this gem can be found on GamePass. Leaning more on sci-fi, SOMA promises to be a story about identity and the human condition as you explore an underwater facility called PATHOS-II Metal: Hellsinger SOMA is a game from the developers of Amnesia: Rebirth so we already know we’re in for some truly spooky stuff. Jolly, but Requiem is as tense as it is emotional. They also must evade soldiers from the Inquisition as well as rats spreading the black plague. A Plague Tale: Requiem – NEWĪ sequel to 2019’s A Plague Tale: Innocence, Requiem finds siblings Amicia and Hugo de Rune looking for a cure for Hugo’s blood disease. With visuals that are reminiscent of David Cronenberg’s body horror, Scorn features the player controlling a silent protagonist who must find out more about the strange world they have awoken in. Scorn is a brand-new game, having been released on October 14 and available to play as part of Game Pass, making it a right treat for those in the mood for a surreal horror survival game.

Amnesia: Rebirth, the third Amnesia game and sequel to 2010’s Amnesia: The Dark Descent, will take you into deserted caves and tombs as you control Tasi Trianon, who is looking for her friends. The Amnesia games have a reputation of being particularly brutal on the player’s nerves and I, for one, can vouch for that. The concept is simple two characters fight it out and only one can come out on top. Choose your hero, power them up and get cracking. We all love the heroes of DC, but what if you could customise them to kick even more ass? Well, you can in Injustice 2. Sharing a lot of DNA with Alien: Isolation, this shooter from Betheshda Studios is tense and perfect for some Halloween gaming. In Prey, a first-person horror game, the player controls Morgan Yu as they explore Talos I, a creepy space station. We’re picking the best games on Xbox Game Pass available to play, so keep your eyes peeled for our monthly updates. Some of the best games, old and new, can be found in the subscription service, and there are some real gems at your fingertips. The Xbox Game Pass is a gold mine for gamers.
