Prepare to adorn the space, grab a mince pie, and get ready for some gaming fun, all thanks to this lineup of Xbox Game Pass titles arriving in December, along with two in January.
Leading this collection is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which will be available on launch day through Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
Our Ian has already had some hands-on time with the soon-to-be-released title. “I believe it’s set to be something truly remarkable and I can’t wait to delve deeper,” he mentioned in Eurogamer’s hands-on preview of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Additional highlights in this collection include Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – which joins consoles through Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard, and Game Pass Core – as well as Wildfrost, a Roguelike card game in the Slay the Spire genre.
Bertie and Donlan both experienced Wildfrost last year; you can check out their impressions in Eurogamer’s feature: Wildfrost manages to find some card-battling magic all of its own.
Here is the complete lineup of newly announced Game Pass titles.
4th December:
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Console through Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard, Game Pass Core)
- Forza Motorsport (Xbox Series X/S, now on Game Pass Standard)
- Hauntii (Console, now on Game Pass Standard)
- Humanity (Console, now on Game Pass Standard)
5th December:
- EA Sports WRC (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S through Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass)
- Overthrown Game Preview (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S, through Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass)
9th December:
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S through Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass)
10th December:
- Wildfrost (Cloud, Console, and PC through Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass)
2nd January:
- Carrion (Cloud, Console, and PC through Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard)
7th January:
- Road 96 (Cloud, Console, and PC through Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard)
Moreover, Game Pass Core members will have access to DayZ and the original Goat Simulator on 4th December.
As with each new batch of arrivals, several titles will be departing Game Pass. The following will likely be leaving the service on 15th December:
- Amnesia: The Bunker (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Forager (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Forza Horizon 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Rise of the Tomb Raider (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Tin Hearts (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- The Quarry (Cloud and Console)
These will be succeeded by the following games on 31st December:
- BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Close to the Sun (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Humankind (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Lego 2K Drive (Cloud and Console)
- McPixel 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Party Animals (Cloud and Console)
If you wish to keep playing these titles after their departure…