Want to enhance your Xbox Game Pass experience? Come join the official Pure Xbox Game Club!
We can't take any credit on staff for this — the PX Game Club is the work of ralphdibny and the rest of the contributors over at the Pure Xbox forums, who have established a community that meets up every month to play a game on Xbox Game Pass and share their experiences. Games are voted on every month by the contributors involved.
The game for December 2022 is Pentiment, which is available on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Series S, PC and via Xbox Cloud Gaming. It's the latest release from Xbox Game Studios, and was developed by the brilliant Obsidian!
You'll find the forum thread to get involved below (it has over 2,200 entries to date!):
If you're interested in what kind of discussion goes on, here's what a couple of contributors had to say about last month's Pure Xbox Game Club title, A Plague Tale: Requiem:
- HarmanSmith on Pure Xbox:
"Really enjoying it so far! For a title made by a 'not so large' studio, it sure is a polished product. My main complaint (so far, at least) is that, besides some QoL improvements, and some new 'powers', it is a bit too similar to the first one."
- TuckNorris85 on Pure Xbox:
"Story was absolutely top notch, just as good as the first game. Graphics were mindblowing, I absolutely loved the 40fps mode for the 120hz displays.
I felt the gameplay however was a bit weaker than the first game. It seemed a lot harder than last time, and some of the forced arena-style battles were just utter *****. Apparently a new patch has made them more bearable, so hopefully that helps, but overall I think I had more fun with Innocence."
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I couldn't stand Pentiment incredibly boring with endless walls of pretentious text with no voice overs. 1 out of 10 and is actually the worse game I've played this year by far.
Disappointed with Obsidian I really hope M$ ups it's game next year and finally starts delivering. Last chance or many will leave the platform for a competitor with a regular schedule of quality games.
Nobody will be accepting another year of excuses.
Couldn't disagree more with the first comment about Pentiment. It's my game of the year and in my top 10 of all time. The ending is fantastic. Probably the first time I've ever welled up playing a game.
I adore the art style, the writing is top notch and the use of fonts is really inventive.
I hope Josh Sawyer gets more opportunities to create passion projects. In a sea of mediocre 'AAA' fare games like these are a breath of fresh air.
@grumpypotato grear, there is no timing component for any of the dialogue choices so it works great on touch
I’ve got to give Pentiment another chance. I was expecting to really like it, but it just wasn’t jiving with me like I wanted it to and I typically like the pretentious, artsy fartsy types of games. The game does feel quite sparsely developed, outside the dialog. I didn’t get that far into it, however. Maybe an hour in or so. I really should get back to it.
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@Jey887 That comment in the article is about last month's Pure Xbox Game Club title, which was A Plague Tale: Requiem
I haven't finished yet. Without spoilers I was pretty disappointed by a decision made for me at the end of Act 2 that had drastic consequences. First and foremost my character, as a logical hedonist, would never have done that, but secondly, I felt it changed the game from something that felt organic and crafted by my own agency, into a story on rails that my previous input had no effect on. It detached me from the story in a way that really turned me off, especially because I was so invested before that point.
I will finish it, probably this month, but I went from "couldn't put it down" to "don't want to pick it up" real fast from that one event.
@FraserG Sorry I meant Cyberpsycho's comment in the comment section. I appreciate I didn't make that clear.
@Jey887 @Cyberpsycho Not surprised by either comment. This was always going to be a divisive game. Josh Sawyer even said he knew many wouldn't like it, but made it for the few that would love it.
Looking forward to giving this a go. Hopefully this month to join in with Game Club!
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