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It’s a new month — one where big showers may lead to big flowers — and both Microsoft and Sony are ready for a downpour of big games on their prospective services.
Microsoft has announced the indie darling, starting strong Loop Hero — an endlessly replayable card-based RPG — is now available on Game Pass. You can also download the Game Pass RPG. Goat Simulator The 2014 comedy game in which players take control of a goat and navigate it through increasingly bizarre situations. Its sequel. Goat Simulator 3. (No, it was never an Goat Simulator 2You might be asking why?(Released November 20, 2022).
The highlight of Game Pass’s month-end is Ghostwire: Tokyo — the former PlayStation exclusive developed by Microsoft subsidiary Tango Gameworks — which arrives April 12 alongside the free Spider’s Thread update that includes new areas to explore, new cutscenes, and other quality of life updates. Then there’s Minecraft LegendsMojang’s action-strategy video game, titled “Mojang – a Strategy-based Game” that encourages teamwork and base-building to defeat an opposing team. Let’s not forget Coffee Talk Episode 2, the sequel to 2020’s cozy visual novel about making drinks and solving the problems (not necessarily in that order) of your magical clientele. Microsoft Game Pass is completed with a round of joy. Benedict Fox’s Last CaseMetroidvania’s cosmic horror Metroidvania plays through the minds and bodies of the dead, where the title detective attempts to solve an unsolvable mystery.
Xbox Game Pass games are not available for download. This means that other titles must also be deleted. The following titles will make their departure with grace on the 15th of April: True Colors: Life is Strange, Deck Nine’s wonderfully emotional reinvention of the choice-based narrative series; voxel life-sim and relaxer Moonglow BaySurvival horror game The Long DarkYou can also download and play the following: It’s not impossible for them to return to the service, but if any of them tickle your fancy, download and play them before the middle of the month.
Sony continues to be a pioneer in free PS Plus games, leaping consoles. This month, PlayStation 5 launches title (and other blasts) will be available to players. Sackboy: A Big AdventureRPG for rodent-slaying epic RPG Tales of IronAnd Meet Your Maker, a multiplayer post-apocalyptic building-and-raiding game for first-person players. It focuses on player interaction and creation. Dead by Daylight. Sony is trying to recreate the success of its launches. Fall Guys Rocket League. The strategy isn’t foolproof — first-party car destroyer Destruction All-Stars was dead on arrival — but giving the game away for free provides it a better chance of surviving than asking full price.
More games are likely to be added to the PS Plus catalog — remember, PS Plus Essential provides only three free monthly games, PS Plus Extra opens into a library of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 titles, and PS Plus Premium allows PlayStation 3 games to be streamed — but they have yet to be revealed.
Nintendo also announced the Nintendo 64 minigame collection. Pokémon Stadium On April 12, Nintendo Switch Online will be joining their service. With each passing year, the price of the collection is slowly rising in value.