Here Are Your Xbox Games With Gold For December 2020

WOW!! Xbox you never fail to disappoint me every month

Bleed 2 is sooooo good!

Im sure I already have Stacking from Gold a few years back?

Heck yeah! Bleed 2 and Stacking. I can work with that.

@phoenix1 To be honest, you shouldn't be, because in my opinion anyone who owns an Xbox and possesses even a lick of sense should have Game Pass, which renders the Games With Gold offerings completely irrelevant. I'd be no worse off and wouldn't lose sleep if GWG disappeared altogether.

And the dross continues to flow....

Just kill it.

@Medic_Alert Exactly!! Microsoft, convert to Game Pass already for the love of God Almighty!!!

It gets me how many great games have come to PS+, like Bioshock Collection, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and many others, that still haven't come to Games With Gold. At this rate, I'd prefer just two or three higher quality games a month. Sony have even given us a PS5 game already. Come on, Microsoft.

Game Pass isn't for everyone. Also, even though I have game pass, I still like games with gold. Once you get a GWG game you can play it whenever you want. With Game Pass, things come and go over time.

Also, as someone who routinely replays games I enjoy, I like having the in my library and being able to play them at my leisure.

If you are the type who plays a game and then moves on, game pass is a better option.

@AJDarkstar I don't see it happening. They just have different approaches to this. Sony gives you a couple higher end games that you keep but are locked behind a subscription. MS gives you Game Pass which has hundreds of games in rotation that also requires a subscription. They both incentivize being constantly subbed, they just deliver content differently. I'd rather have the selection of Game Pass and if I really liked something enough I can always just buy a copy, usually for pretty cheap. There's just too many months when Sony hands me two games I just never wanted or have already played/own.

@VenomousAlbino I agree GwG just should be put out to pasture. Every since Gamepass came out GwG have just been crap.

Gwg should be retired..

Latest GwG I have played was Call of Cthulhu.

@Kefka2589 Plus and Gamepass really are apples and oranges. When compared directly of course GP looks superior however it's more akin to PS Now than plus really.

To echo what others have said they should just phase out GWG at this point. With all you get with GP Ultimate I don't think too many folks would be upset given the quality they've been giving out last few months.

I like the fact I will keep the 360 games even when my subscription ends. Have got LOADS of games in my list I haven't even touched and with gamepass I'm spoiled for choice. I remember when I paid for Live and got nothing but online. Happy for anything "Free".

Gat out of Hell is a really disappointing offering for a 360 game, the Xbox One version is usually super cheap on sale and there's no reason to go back to the 360 port.

I loved Gat Out of Hell, but already own the Xbox One version. I guess I could get this one too and give myself an excuse to get the achivos twice 😅

@JayJ believe it or not, there are still some people out there with gold playing from a 360. Think that's part of why they make sure to always offer a 360 game.

@Tharsman Well I guess someone needs to think of them, easy to forget how they exist these days.

Yet another terrible month...

Gold is terrible value compared to PS+ and especially compared to Game Pass, let alone Game Pass Ultimate...

Are MS really making Gold so bad value to pus people to buy Game Pass Ultimate?

@redd214 They really are, and I think they only come to blows with one another because Now just isn't as popular a service as Plus. I think Plus is a good service, and of course I have it. But it's just a gamble for me. Sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. But I wouldn't miss GWG at all. Give me a couple more Game Pass games each month, or add some more Gold discounts. I'd way rather have that.

@Kefka2589 I think both are terrible services and the only reason I have PSPlus is because Sony keeps cloud saves hostage behind the service.

On the other hand I happen to get gold as part of GPUltimate, so for me it's just kind of a nice bonus.

For the record, I don't play multi-player games on sight console.

@Tharsman Oh man, the cloud saves on PS saved my goose a while back. I was one trophy away from my platinum on R&C and started a new game thinking it'd be a new game plus. Nope. Deleted my save like a moron. That cloud save saved me a lot of tears. Lol

I do a little online MP on Xbox, but none of PS. I only have PS Plus because a year is only $30 on CDKeys. I figure for that little why not? I occasionally get something out of it.

@Kefka2589 granted, most PS+ games worth having are typically ones I already have, but hardly anything decent comes along on Xbox these days. Curiously enough, 360 & OG GWG are permanently added to your library, not actually requiring Gold membership to play if your sub lapses, which could be why we don't get much particularly decent. Being older games, MS may pay the devs less money to have them on there, perhaps. I'd rather Gold went free (as long as we can still access our free X1 collection) the way things are right now. I currently have Game Pass, but only because it was free. If I can continue to buy Gold in the future and do the free/cheap upgrade option I would do that, but for me it rarely has enough on it to make it worthwhile keeping. It's more useful for trying out games I'm unsure about.

@AJDarkstar And you aren't wrong, GWG doesn't have newer or big titles anymore. But these games are definitely a lot cheaper to foot the bill for. But that's kinda what I was getting at. MS's focus is really just Game Pass now. GWG is just sorta there now because rather than giving it an honorable death, they've kept it alive by giving out older titles or indies. I just shudder to think what something like DQ11 S day one on Game Pass cost MS, and Sony probably coughs up some big dough for certain Plus games, like say Bioshock Collection. And I can respect the appeal of both services, but both companies are just putting money into different places.

@Kefka2589 it became good for consumers when these online subs added extra value, it's just that GWG doesn't really feel like it's giving that value anymore. Given all those free Gold membership rumours, whether they were based on reality or fantasy, it definitely seems like the best idea. I think MS can transition in a very pro-consumer way if they do it right. Fingers crossed, eh?

Bleed 2 is a great game if you haven't tried it yet but I'd have to agree with the rest of this. The Raven is pretty bad, to put it mildly, and I'm wondering how many people are still on their 360's waiting for the 2 new free games every month. On one hand, hats off to Microsoft for continuing to support their legacy consoles, but we're 7 years into the Xbox One generation and another week or two into Series X/S territory here. Let the 360 stuff go, or at least give us some OG Xbox stuff that we might have missed.

Ill take Saints Row, i might play it eventually. I've been wanting to give some DoubleFine games a shot since people seem to love them so getting one for free is nice.

@AJDarkstar And I definitely won't dispute that. A standalone Gold membership just seems almost goofy in 2020. But I'm sure there are people who still exclusively have Gold. Game Pass Ultimate is one of those things to me that's so good I'd go as far to say that I forget there are people that dont have it. So in that sense, there are definitely some users getting left out in the rain with Gold, and I can appreciate why that's a problem. So it really probably is time for Gold to just die. Maybe even just create a more basic membership of Game Pass that has online play and a smaller selection of games. Sort of like cable packages. You pay more, you get access to more.

@Kefka2589 that's not a bad idea. It could be similar to PS5's PS+ Collection, where only older games are available, perhaps for the same price Gold is now.

@AJDarkstar I could see that being an attractive model. It just seems like it would fit more with their current ambition of selling Game Pass. You'd think they would want as many people as possible to have access to a games like Sea of Thieves and Forza. But I'm not an executive. So what do I know? Lol

Stacking and saints row look okay