Most of the very best Xbox games are available on Game Pass but with over 100 to choose from it can be hard to decide what to play next. As we've mentioned above, Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass also include access to EA Play titles (like Battlefield V, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, FIFA 21, Knockout City and more). Some incredible third-party make their way to Game Pass at launch too, like the side-scrolling brawler Streets of Rage 4. With the exception of 2021's Deathloop, all future Bethesda games will be available on Xbox Game Pass at release (including the 2022 space adventure Starfield). Game Pass is now home to 20 massively popular Bethesda games.

Soon after Microsoft sealed the deal, it made short work of bringing Bethesda's back catalogue of classics into the Game Pass library. In 2021, Microsoft also finalised its acquisition of the world's biggest video game publishers, Bethesda ( Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom and more). All future first-party games will follow suit, including Halo Infinite, the studio's most anticipated game in years. Minecraft: Dungeons, Gears 5, Sea of Thieves, Crackdown 3 and more were all available on Game Pass at launch and are still available to play on all three plan tiers. Firstly, every Xbox Game Studio (first-party) game is available on launch day. There are over 100+ games in the Xbox Game Pass library at any given time. If you do cancel, the games downloaded via Game Pass will be locked until you resume your subscription but you won't lose any save data. Like all Game Pass subscriptions, Ultimate is month-to-month with no lock-in contract so you're free to cancel at any time. Microsoft is offering a deal that gets you your first month of Game Pass Ultimate for $1, after which you will continue to pay $15.95 per month.

Ultimate subscribers will also get all the associated perks with Xbox Live Gold, such as Deals with Gold (regular discounts) and Games with Gold (free monthly games). All up, that's about $28.90 per month of value for $15.95 per month. It also includes EA Play, another games subscription service that usually costs $6.99 per month.

Xbox Live Gold is required to play a lot of games online and will typically cost you $10.95 per month alone. It gets you everything included in both the Console and PC Game Pass tiers with Xbox Live Gold and EA Play included. The best value option is the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.

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