Microsoft has revealed the next batch of games coming to its Xbox Game Pass subscription service this April, and into next month.
Game Pass subscribers can look forward to the following games making their way onto the service in the coming weeks:
- Little Rocket Lab (Cloud, Console, and PC) – 21st April, now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
- Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato (Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC) – 21st April, now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
- Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – 21st April via Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Kiln (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – 23rd April via Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Aphelion (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – 28th April via Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Trepang2 (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – 29th April via Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass
- Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era (Game Preview) (PC) – 30th April via Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Sledding Game (Game Preview) (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – 30th April via Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- TerraTech Legion (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – 30th April via Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Final Fantasy 5 (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – 5th May via Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
Kiln is the upcoming pottery-based party brawler from Double Fine, the studio behind the likes of Psychonauts and last year’s wonderfully surreal lighthouse adventure Keeper. “Create your pot, grab your friends, and join a team of colourful spirits who face off against one another in online arenas, where the ceramic creations you sculpt on a pottery wheel become the bodies you bring into battle,” reads Kiln’s official blurb.
Vampire Crawlers, meanwhile, is Vampire Survivors’ deck-building spin-off. Our Bertie has already taken the Vampire Crawlers demo out for a spin, and while he enjoyed certain aspects, he wasn’t wholly convinced. “Vampire Crawlers works within the confines of what it does, but as a Vampire Survivors experience, it wavers,” Bertie wrote in Eurogamer’s Vampire Crawlers feature. “There are moments – usually when fighting waves of creatures in a boss encounter – that Vampire Crawlers comes close to the intoxication of its source material. But the staccato nature of the game always seems to interrupt it. As a Vampire Survivors experience, it’s fractured, and as a card game, it’s not really detailed enough; I don’t see much room for strategy or theorising here.”
Then, away from supernatural cards, Aphelion will be Don’t Nod’s first human story in space. The developer promises a “powerful” experience on the game’s release later this month. “As astronaut Ariane Montclair crash landed on the newly discovered Persephone, players must brave harsh landscapes, master survival tools, and navigate reality-bending phenomena on a desperate mission to reunite with her wounded partner, Thomas Cross,” reads the official blurb.
As with every month, with new games coming to Game Pass, it does mean a selection of others will be leaving. On 30th April, the following with be leaving the service:
- Citizen Sleeper (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Creatures of Ava (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Endless Legend 2 (PC)
- Goat Simulator (Cloud and Console)
- Goat Simulator Remastered (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Hunt Showdown 1896 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- NHL 24 (EA Play) (Cloud and Console)
- Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, Console, and PC)
For everything else in Microsoft’s subscription service, you can check out our handy Xbox Game Pass guide detailing the many titles available.
