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0 Spooky month is now in full swing and the second wave of Game Pass additions comes with it. Don your capes and fire up your mechs as three titles are available to download now!
South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Genre: RPG
Longevity: 18 – 28 hours | Achievements: 35
Metacritic: 79 | OpenCritic: Strong
Available: Now (All platforms)
Tiers: All
Released: 17th October 2017
Screw you guys, I’m going home… and playing this! The stellar sequel to The Stick of Truth makes a superhero landing on Game Pass. Step back into the shoes of the new kid as they join South Park’s finest crime-fighters. Which is totally sweet, you guys. Team up with The Coon, Mysterion, Human Kite and more as you take on various quests about town and grid-based battles with up to three allies. Choose from ten superhero archetypes, each with unique abilities and areas of effect. Tactical positioning is your friend and will serve you well. And of course, South Park’s trademark hilarity runs amok. You wanna throw down, brah? Game Pass’ll throw down.
Donut County
Genre: Puzzle
Longevity: 2 hours | Achievements: 20
Metacritic: 75 | OpenCritic: Strong
Available: Now (All platforms)
Tiers: All
Released: 28th August 2018
How many games out there can say they have you play as a hole in the ground? Well, just one: Donut County! As said hole, driven by raccoon BK, you expand the more you consume. Balls, traffic cones, bikes – channel your inner trash panda in hole form and devour it all. Meet cute characters along the way and sink all their stuff too. Combine items within the hole for different effects and spit things out to aid the consumption of others. Indeed, you will only stop once the whole county goes 999 feet under. But are some things more important than trash? Can your insatiable need for it even be useful? Time to find out!
MechWarrior 5: Clans
Genre: Action/Shooter
Longevity: 20 – 30 hours | Achievements: 41
Metacritic: 79 | OpenCritic: Strong
Available: Now (Cloud, PC, Series X/S)
Tiers: Ultimate, PC
Released: 17th October 2024
Power up your BattleMechs for the first clan-based entry in the MechWarrior series. MechWarrior 5: Clans is a standalone sequel that sees you as a new graduate of the Smoke Jaguar program and naturally you’re thrust straight into an all-out invasion. Lead a squad of mechs in strategic and mission-specific battles across numerous planets. Gain the advantage by customising your mechs with Clan weapons systems and upgrades, putting them to expert use with the new Battle Grid and Command Wheel. Not one to play alone? Up to 4 players can join you in an epic narrative of intergalactic proportions. Time to suit up, soldier! The thrill of the mechs awaits.
Ashen
Genre: Action-RPG
Longevity: 16 – 26 hours | Achievements: 34
Metacritic: 78 | OpenCritic: Strong
Available: 29th October (All platforms)
Tiers: All
Released: 7th December 2018
Are you craving a little more Souls-like action this Halloween? A44’s Ashen’s got you covered. As a wanderer looking for a home, you’ll traverse a wide range of locales which change your journey with every playthrough. No adventure is the same. Team up with other players in this changing world to take down fearsome creatures or invite them to your party. It’s dangerous to go alone, but you can if you choose. Inviting survivors to your Town brings new crafting skills to refine equipment or perfect your foraging. And, like many Souls-likes, carefully studying the terrain and inhabitants may keep you alive to venture on – a reckless hero does not last long!
And that’s not all. Several iconic shooter titles already on Game Pass Ultimate are expanding their platforms later this month:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III – 25th October – Cloud
- Call of Duty: Warzone – 25th October – Cloud
- Dead Island 2 – 31st October – PC
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