Already own the first two Amnesia games on Steam, and Rebirth from the EGS freebie, but I should give them a try at some point. Looking forward to Frog Detective 3; the first two were cute.
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Holy shit monkey island! Pretty good month. Curious about Somerville
it hadn’t launched (or been announced, afaik) for Xbox yet. it’s relatively common for games that launch on PC to not launch on PC Game Pass until the console release, though as you say, the gap there is usually longer; i.e. The Legend of Tianding launched for PC and Switch a year ago, but is launching on Game Pass today along with the Xbox release
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Didn't know Lapin was coming to Game Pass; looks like an interesting platformer. It's an Early Access release on Steam, so I'm not sure why it's not labeled as a Game Preview release on Game Pass.
Gungrave looks like a fun 7/10 action game, hope it at least lives up to that
Gungrave looks like a fun 7/10 action game, hope it at least lives up to that
Eastward, Rainbow Billy, High on Life, and Lego Star Wars. Not bad.
better play Lake after I finish Ori and the Will of the Wisps, since that's leaving soon
Rise is not beginner friendly, World is better. Rise is more for people who are used to the older games.
Gamepass is pretty crazy for me lately - finished Signalis, Somerville, Prodeus, Plague Tale 2, High on Life and now playing Midnight Fight Express. And all these games except Somerville have been awesome.
I suspect more the latter, but I doubt it'll end up having anything particularly coherent to say about the USSR one way or another = it strikes me mainly as using Soviet aesthetics in service of a BioShock-inspired "alternate=history utopia with anachronistically advanced technology turns out to have a dark side" story, much more than it does using those familiar tropes to comment on the USSR as it actually existed.
Not wildly optimistic about AH in general, since it's come off since its reveal as a collection of "this would make a cool visual in a trailer" ideas more than it does a cohesive vision for a game, and the last round of previews didn't exactly discourage that impression. But I'd love to be wrong, and hey, at least it's on Game Pass so I don't have to buy it.
Don't need to buy Soul Hackers 2 anymore. That's a win! 
It's not outright bad, but it is mediocre. I can barely remember anything about it in the first place. There are a few characters I liked, but they aren't as interesting as a Persona game's cast. The nicest thing I can say about SH2 is I enjoyed it more than Shin Megami Tensei V (which I have outright disdain for).
Made it three hours into Shadow Warrior 3...
and then Atomic Heart came out. Haven't touched SW3 since. But I will probably finish it after AH, just to scratch it off the list. It is not terrible, but it is weakest of the three games. I am glad they brought back Hoji though.
and then Atomic Heart came out. Haven't touched SW3 since. But I will probably finish it after AH, just to scratch it off the list. It is not terrible, but it is weakest of the three games. I am glad they brought back Hoji though.
I have to agree. HiFi Rush and Atomic Heart are the only games I've liked so far in 2023. I assume Wo Long is good, but haven't actually had the time to play it.
Looks like a flop in the making and Capcom pawned it off for some quick dosh ala Outriders and Rainbow Six Extraction. Good for them.
Exciting second half of April, bunch of games I want to play! Problem is finding time, I just started with Ghostwire Tokyo
Game Pass has been kinda underwhelming so far this year, huh. Can't say the lineup has been bad and I still have a decent-sized backlog from it, but the twice-a-month "Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass" news drops used to pretty consistently have a bunch of games that hadn't been previously announced as coming to the service; now it feels like there are generally fewer games, and nearly all of them are announced in advance.
Ravenlok looks promising as a vaguely Zelda-esque action-RPG, but I wasn't a big fan of the developer's previous game, Echo Generation, so I'll refrain from setting my expectations too high for that one. Cocomelon also seems to have something against Steam, for some reason (Echo Generation has a Steam page that's been "coming soon" for years now), and Ravenlok doesn't even have a Steam page despite being available on both the Windows Store and EGS.
Ravenlok looks promising as a vaguely Zelda-esque action-RPG, but I wasn't a big fan of the developer's previous game, Echo Generation, so I'll refrain from setting my expectations too high for that one. Cocomelon also seems to have something against Steam, for some reason (Echo Generation has a Steam page that's been "coming soon" for years now), and Ravenlok doesn't even have a Steam page despite being available on both the Windows Store and EGS.
Im not exactly sure what MS is doing lately with game pass. With the lack of 1st party titles I would have thought they would go all in on 3rd party games. There are good to great 3rd party titles releasing everyday on PC/Xbox and if only PC, they can still fund the development of the Xbox version, but no, game pass titles are lacking lately.
