Video: Here's A Look At 50+ Games Coming To Xbox Game Pass In 2023

Call me weird but since this "next gen" started, the most visually impressive game I have seen announced has been Replaced. Looking so much forward to playing that.

Maybe I'm too old, too busy, or both, but I can't understand when people say that Xbox/ Gamepass have got no games! My struggle is actually to have TIME to play so much cool stuff. That said, it's Monster Hunter Rise time for me - for a couple of months, at least!

@OldgamerDave people making those statements are referring to the lack of big AAA blockbusters.

@OldgamerDave Im kinda with you, but I do understand what they are actually trying to say (even if they are using the wrong words) and its simply that XBox is not yet delivering enough platform exclusives. After all, if you are budget limited, chances are you get to experience almost all games that are on XBox on a PS5 + their platform exclusives (first and third party.)

Hopefully that starts changing this year with games like Starfield.

@FatalBubbles I see. They're right, then.
I don't usually keep up with the new stuff - I've been playing The Witcher 3 and Persona 5R for the last months.

Between Replaced, Atomic Heart, The Last Case of Benedict Fox, Stalker, Redfall, Starfield, Warhammer, non Gamepass game Hogwarts Legacy, and my wife having a baby in July, this is going to be a very very busy year for me.

@Tharsman You've got a solid point there: I can't remember when was the last time I played something exclusive on my Xbox. Maybe Forza Horizon 4? It doesn't bother me at all, but I understand it might bother hardcore fans. I live in Brazil and for my budget, Gamepass and the Series S are the best deal ever!

@OldgamerDave TW3 is a masterpiece, enjoy!

Even though its 50 games...the video left me cold ! We need more 3D platformers..and less 8 Bit side scrollers ! Old or current gen..no one buys an Xbox to play it like a NES.

Forza 8 and Replaced for me. Although Replaced is based purely on visuals. Simply amazing artwork.

Really hope Forza is still coming in the first half of the year.

14 games from that i want to play... but need to narrow it down to like 5

Do the Persona games open up? I started P4 and the first few hours were scripted dialogue scenes with little to no exploration other than the TV dungeon realm. Is that the entire game?

Mortal Shell was recommended to me by a big Souls fan.
Monster Hunter Rise looks awesome. (but I want some story)
Age of Empires 2 is my jam.
Lies of P looks absurd and I'm all for it.
Didn't get round to Tunic so will give that a go.

That's more games than I get round to in a year so a good haul.

@Benjamin Define "open up" and "exploration? It does open up to a point where you can wander around the environment in search of the dialogue segments.

The format of the games is half social-sim (dialog, but you do walk a bit around locations and have to chose who/what activity to spend the available times performing more dialogue with) and half dungeon crawling RPG (the TV realm in 4.) It's that mix of social sim and dungeon crawling that defines the Persona (whereas the parent series Shin Megami Tensei is mostly dungeon exploration to get to the end with minimal dialogue and fellow spin-off Soul Hackers (Devil Summoner) is a pure dungeon crawler for the main purpose of slaying the monsters.

Persona has the most story, and the most wild/zany environments, but also the most dialogue, as it's half social sim. SMT plays it pretty straight as a post apocalyptic dungeon crawler, and Soul Hackers used to be played straight as a sort of pre-apocalyptic noire, but now it's more Persona-like thematically, minus the high school social sim half. But yeah, there's a "visual novel" aspect to it with the social sim for sure.

@themightyant Thanks for the analysis, man. Now I understand better the "Xbox has no games" context. And I think every consumer is entitled to their opinion.
But still...I'm eating well with GP, lol!

@OldgamerDave I think the "xbox has no games" meme is mostly a bias that is a mix coming from console-warriors defending their chosen platform because it has more exclusive games and hold 3rd party games as "lesser" than first party, which, in the 16, 32 bit eras was kind of true, but really isn't these days. And because of the people that buy an Xbox for the exclusives but use another platform as their "main" platform for 3rd party games. The Xbox never gets used because XB rarely releases big third party games over the past number of years. I.E. If you bought every 3rd party game on PS, or PC, and bought an Xbox just to play exclusive games......FH5 was the last thing other than sentiment you booted it for.

But it's also an unfair look, MOST games people buy are third party. And PS/XB are so similar exclusives are the only actual reason to own both, so if XB isn't your main system, you never end up using it until the exclusives land.

I have both, and XB is my main system for 3rd party games, so PS is my "exclusives" box. It gets a fair amount of use because PS has a lot of exclusives. If I had it the other way around, if PS is where I bought most of my third party games, Xbox would indeed be collecting a ton of dust.

But that's just enthusiasts. Normal humans don't actually buy both platforms because they're both practically identical outside handfuls of games, so for people that buy only one, there's nothing to complain about on either, exclusives or no. It's a complaint by those who want it all and are frustrated their exclusives investment in XB is slow to pay off.

@NEStalgia Okay that makes sense. I was hoping for some exploration through environments akin to old FF games. Leaving town to do a side-quest that isn't a static dialogue scene. Might come back to it another time.

@Benjamin Yeah, there's only the one town. You do get to wander around town and the school, and you do initiate activities. Basically each in-game day you get a certain amount of free time and you do activities that consume a certain amount of that time, to build your social links and thus the personas with different characters, but the activities themselves are generally static dialogue. The game itself is 1/2 dungeon crawler, 1/2 social simulator via visual novel. There are some quests that involve re-entering completed dungeons to accomplish certain things. If that's questing or grinding, I'm not sure, but there's no "overworld dungeon" type of situation, the overworld is the social sim/visual novel area, and the dungeons are the dungeons.