Game Pass Core has officially replaced Xbox Live Gold as the cheapest subscription option available on Xbox. Priced at £6.99/$9.99, Xbox Game Pass Core provides a small selection of benefits, including access to a library of games. While the term Game Pass is included in the name, you do not get access to the hundreds of games available on the full Game Pass subscription.
Like Games with Gold, that £6.99/$9/99 per month lets you play multiplayer games with friends and other players from around the world. However, instead of getting a couple of free ( and usually pretty bad) games per month, Game Pass Core gives you 41 games to play so long as you have an active subscription. Microsoft intends on updating the library a few times a year, so check back regularly to see if anything new has been added.
The selection is pretty good, from some of Microsoft’s own first-party titles like Gears 5, Doom Eternal and Fallout 4, to 3rd party titles such as the exceptional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. For a first-timer Xbox player, there are hundreds of hours of good gameplay, justifying the price tag.
If you’ve been playing games for a while, though, you might not find much on Game Pass Core that you haven’t already tried out and may want to upgrade to the full Game Pass plan, unless you simply want to play multiplayer games.
Here’s the full list of games you can play:
- Among Us
- Astroneer
- Celeste
- Chivalry 2
- Cities: Skylines 2
- Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled
- Control
- DayZ
- Dead Cells
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Descenders
- Dishonored 2
- Doom Eternal Standard Edition
- Fable Anniversary
- Fallout 4
- Fallout 76
- Firewatch
- Gang Beasts
- Gears 5 Game of the Year Edition
- Goat Simulator
- Golf with your Friends
- Grounded
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Halo Wars 2
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Human Fall Flat
- Inside
- Limbo
- Ori & the Will of the Wisps
- Overcooked! 2
- Payday 2: Crimewave Edition
- Powerwash Simulator
- Psychonauts 2
- Slay the Spire
- Spiritfarer: Farewell Edition
- SnowRunner
- Stardew Valley
- State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
- Superliminal
- Superhot: Mind Control Delete
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- Totally Reliable Delivery Service
- Unpacking
- Vampire Survivors
- Wreckfest





