Let's face it: Xbox Game Pass is a great service. It has an ever-growing library of titles and is generally cheaper than purchasing a major new game every month. That is good news for Xbox Series S owners who depend on that service's cloud features to keep up with an expanding new generation of gaming. Of course, you'll need to keep up with which new games you'll be able to play from the service on the first day.
Xbox Game Pass is a game subscription service that often provides new titles to subscribers on the day that they launch. Although the service is packed with retro, indie, and other third-party games, it's the service's extensive selection of day-one new releases that has earned its reputation as the finest gaming deal in the world.
Some day one Xbox Game Pass features that are quite obvious in 2023. For instance, since every studio under the Bethesda Zenimax banner now works for Microsoft, it only makes sense their games, such as Redfall and Starfield, will be available on the Game Pass this year. The same applies to other Xbox Studios subsidiaries and their projects, including Rare's GoldenEye 007, which is also coming to Nintendo Switch as part of that game's somewhat surprising re-release campaign.
Here are some of the new games Game Pass subscribers can look forward to in 2023. Due to unforeseen delays, every game in the "TBA" section is still subject to release in 2023, and there's a pretty good possibility that this would happen again. For that matter, Microsoft may release more surprise titles, such as the recently released Hi-Fi Rush.
January
- GoldenEye 007 – January 27
- Inkulinati – January 31
February is the month of February.
- Atomic Heart – February 21
March is the month of spring.
- Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – March 3
- Amnesia: The Bunker – TBA
- Way to the Woods – TBA
April is the first month of April.
- Minecraft Legends – April 18
May
- Redfall – May 2
TBA
- Ara: History Untold
- Ark 2
- Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem
- Bushiden
- Cassette Beasts
- Cocoon
- Dungeons 4
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroe
- Ereban: Shadow Legacy
- Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn
- Flock
- Forza Motorsport
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Homestead Arcana
- Infinite Guitars
- The Last Case of Benedict Fox
- Lies of P
- Lightyear Frontier: A Fresh Start
- Party Animals
- Pigeon Simulator
- Planet of Lana
- Replaced
- Railway Empire 2
- Ravenlok
- Routine
- Spirittea
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Starfield
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Thirsty Suitors
- Turnip Boy Robs a Bank