Here Are Your Xbox Games With Gold For October 2020

I've only heard of 1 of those games. 😂

Wow. Is there even a point to GWG now that we have Game Pass?

I hope they are holding the big guns for November? Or maybe they are losing so much on sales of the new consoles that the budget for GWG is very small for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, I often think people are a little hard on GWG, but looking at this lineup Microsoft really need to put it out of its misery sooner rather than later.

Wow, That's a pretty bad line up..

Costume Quest is actually a pretty good game, the X1 games are sad but the og Xbox and 360 games are fine.

Costume Quest is a fun little game, coming out at the perfect time. However it doesnt make much sense to me why they're still doing GWG with Gamepass around. Especially with a lineup like this, dont see the point anymore.

Maid of sker is a new game right?
So it's good selection game for me
Maybe because I love horror game 😂

It's as if Micro$oft is actually trying to push people away from XBox Live Gold to Gamepass. I came to terms long ago with the fact that Gold was A) a gateway to play online (which I very, very rarely do, and only with the likes of Halo) and B) a means to get discounts off of games periodically; the free GWG games almost completely stopped being worth the space in my storage way back.

On the other hand, I know that people all over these forums and others are singing the praises of Gamepass, but it will never be for me. I don't care about the vast majority of games, even the so-called "AAA" titles, just a select and small percentage of games that catch my interest. And if I'm interested, I buy them to keep "forever" (a term that Micro$oft and other mega-publishers want badly for consumers to forget; just read their EULAs where they refer to these $60 products we legally purchase as "services"). That doesn't mesh with a subscription service where they can pull the plug on a game from their end at any time. Mileage may vary by the user, of course, but it's just not for me; in fact if subscription/streaming models ever become to sole way to access/play videogames, I'll walk away from the hobby and never look back.

Shocking month

I'm happy with maid of sker as I was going to rent it, it's only just come out not long ago

I will download Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy to keep being a Xbox game... Nothing else interests me...

Oof....that's just a whole new low right here. Bring back Farming Simulator!

GwG was a cool idea, but really...just...why are we still doing this if it's obvious it's going to get this bad. Remember when things like Assassin's Creed Syndicate was on there? I'm still assuming "Gold" will be phased out in 2021 since it doesn't really have that much purpose with GP Ultimate around, and buying it stand-alone doesn't really save money.

@Justifier LOL

Well I believe they said more games would be added to backward compat once Series X/S comes out, so maybe the pool of games will start to get good again.....assuming there's much left to add to the line up.

I wonder if it'd be better if they repeated games they already gave out before..? People will be unhappy either way but at least some people would benefit.

Anyway, yeah GWG has been pretty bad this year (except for the 360 and OG Xbox games, I've been enjoying those), but since it's included with Ultimate for $15 a month with Game Pass, XCloud and EA Play (soon), I don't really mind.

I wonder if they are holding back on certain games until the series x/s gets released

I'm with @IronMan30, costume quest is a gem of a game.

For the longest time I've only been interested in the BC GWG anyway, but now even those have lost their appeal. I either already own them or have had no interest in them.

They just need to drop the paid online component already. We have people in the gaming group whose gold has already run out and they are willing to pay monthly for a little while, hoping that MS announce a big change, but they won't hold on forever.

Xbox announcing free online play, either right now or in the next month (after a pretty long run of PS bad press) would be a major blow.

Game Pass has overshadowed this for a while now. I really believe they're intentionally making the Games With Gold line-up bad, so that when they eventually do discontinue it, people will just shrug their shoulders and utter a collective "Meh."