Xbox Game Pass - GUIDE TO BEST DEAL IN FIRST POST

[klargon]

Yep, will be

[womblingfree]

Right, I’ve stacked 3 years Gold.

 

Is this what I need to buy to convert it to Ultimate?

 

 

 

 

[mdn2]

Looks right. It should ask you as you proceed through if it's ok that you're converting your Gold to Gamepass Ultimate. That's what it did for me, from memory.

[womblingfree]

It worked! Three years free(ish) new games for £113. 

[rafaqat]

3 hours ago, womblingfree said:

It worked! Three years free(ish) new games for £113. 

 

3 years of great indie games, lots of third party games and EVERY first party game MS will release (most of which will be cross-save across to PC).  Amazing value.  

 

[womblingfree]

Already downloaded Gears 5, Halo 5, all the Banner sagas, The Outer Wilds, Forza 4, Devil May Cry 5 and Slay the Spire.

Bonkers.

 

[jonamok]

Don’t be so hard on yourself. 

 

Enjoy.

[ScouserInExile]

Are there any decent strategy games on Gamepass for PC? preferably turn based, since I'll be using a trackpad...

[mdn2]

Into The Breach and Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden are both fantastic. 

[BeeJay]

56 minutes ago, ScouserInExile said:

Are there any decent strategy games on Gamepass for PC? preferably turn based, since I'll be using a trackpad...

 

Yes, loads actually. in addition to the above:

 

turn based:

wargroove

age of wonders planetfall

Operencia: the stolen sun

 

pausable:

imperator: rome

frostpunk

 

real time:

Age of empires II: definitive edition

 

Mutant year zero is my personal favorite of the lot.

 

[BeeJay]

If you use the mobile app, you can filter by strategy games on PC.

[Percy Filth]

Also, Faster than Light is coming soon. 

[jonamok]

Perhaps FTL is already here, and you just can’t see it yet.

[Paulando]

3 hours ago, ScouserInExile said:

Are there any decent strategy games on Gamepass for PC? preferably turn based, since I'll be using a trackpad...

As mentioned, Into the Breach is fabulous and works perfectly fine with a trackpad as it’s turn based.

[Dudley]

3 hours ago, BeeJay said:

 

Yes, loads actually. in addition to the above:

 

turn based:

wargroove

age of wonders planetfall

Operencia: the stolen sun

 

pausable:

imperator: rome

frostpunk

 

real time:

Age of empires II: definitive edition

 

Mutant year zero is my personal favorite of the lot.

 

 

 

And of course Age of Empires 4 on the way.

[Meh]

There's also Stellaris, which is a magnificent time sink I have over 700 hours in so far.

[Boozy The Clown]

 

Not only can you get gamepass cheap but it also has games to play right now. 76 of the best.

[FiveFootNinja]

Thanks @jonamok for mentioning this to me! 

 

My Xbox Live Gold subscription expired today and I've just done the 3 year Ultimate boost until Jan 23  

 

Slight squeaky bum after clicking the £1 offer as it told me it would be £10.99 for 3-month (I was worried as I had previously redeemed a free code for a month trial but never used it), but after changing the plan back down to the £1 for a month deal it worked fine and my account is showing as active until the expiry date. Bargain!

 

FYI all three of my CDKeys EU year membership codes worked exactly as expected.

[FiveFootNinja]

What have I done?!

 

I've just made a 'short' list of games from the Game Pass list that I'm interested in trying out and it's come to 27 bloody titles (and I could add more)! 

 

For a bit of an OCD completionist when it comes to games I may have just unlocked a living nightmare 

[Girth Certificate]

On 12/01/2020 at 07:37, Boozy The Clown said:

Not only can you get gamepass cheap but it also has games to play right now. 76 of the best.

 

also Rage 2

 

edit: oh snap I didn't realise Skatbird had come out

 

edit: Skatebird rather, although hitting a phat gap and jobbying on someone below would reinvigorate the forumula a bit.

[Revival]

Children of Morta has been added to Game Pass today, Keep an eye out for an announcement later since we're half way through the month with some more new additions.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/children-of-morta/9p675wh90sb4?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

[BeeJay]

24 minutes ago, Revival said:

Children of Morta has been added to Game Pass today, Keep an eye out for an announcement later since we're half way through the month with some more new additions.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/children-of-morta/9p675wh90sb4?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

 

I had a feeling this was on the way as it is on xcloud beta. I really enjoyed what I played of it on that and it will be interesting to see how it compares being played locally.

 

A few 'big' games leaving this month:

 

Resi 4

The division (again)

tomb raider

shadow of mordor

saints row the third

 

I think we'll see resi 2 fairly soon so resi 4 leaving makes sense. Ubi's games seem to cycle frequently so nothing of note there. None of those are game breakers for me but I might give Tomb raider another go and shadow of mordor a look.

[bradigor]

58 minutes ago, Revival said:

Children of Morta has been added to Game Pass today, Keep an eye out for an announcement later since we're half way through the month with some more new additions.

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/children-of-morta/9p675wh90sb4?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

 

Started this on PS4 and early impressions were very positive. Glad more will get to play it. 

[Boozy The Clown]

Frostpunk is great, if you like that kind of thing.

[Revival]

 

On the Xbox wire page it notes GRIS is id@xbox so it's probably coming to console too.

[Uzi]

Bloody hell a plague tale already? Gold bless game pass

[sofasurfer]

Would love it if A Plague Tale was console as well, been meaning to play it for ages.

[Girth Certificate]

I didn't even know that rat game had come out  . 

[mdn2]

Gris is fantastic and well worth a run through. It's only short and more of an experience than a game, but you should all give it a go. 

[BeeJay]

Two more games I can remove from my steam wishlist.