Xbox Game Pass briefly explained: console, PC, xCloud streaming and more - The Verge

Microsoft is officially launching its xCloud gaming service today on Android phones and tablets, allowing you to play more than 150 genuine Xbox games on devices that could never run those games themselves — because they’ll be streaming from remote servers much like a YouTube video.

But to do that, you’ll need to pay for an Xbox Game Pass subscription. And not just any Game Pass will do — you’ll need the highest-tier, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription, which costs $14.99, £10.99 or €12.99 a month (though you can pay $1 for a one-month trial).

You might be thinking that’s a lot of money! You might also be wondering, ‘What do the other two Microsoft Game Pass subscriptions offer?’ Because Game Pass is about a lot more than xCloud, it can be one of the least expensive ways to play new Microsoft games, giving you an all-you-can-eat catalog of downloadable titles.

And seeing how Xbox Game Pass for PC is about to double its base price, and both Ultimate and PC versions are about to add EA Play games at no extra cost, this seems like a good time to break it all down.

Here’s the basics in one chart:

Xbox Game Pass comparison

Categories	Xbox Game Pass Ultimate	Xbox Game Pass	Xbox Game Pass for PC
Categories	Xbox Game Pass Ultimate	Xbox Game Pass	Xbox Game Pass for PC
Platform	PC/Xbox	Xbox	PC
Games included	250+ games	250+ games	200+ games
Xbox Live Gold	Yes	No	No
xCloud	Yes	No	No
EA Play	Yes	No	Yes
Monthly price	$14.99/£10.99/€12.99	$9.99/£7.99/€9.99	$9.99/£7.99/€9.99 (from September 17th)

But a simpler way of putting it is that Game Pass and Game Pass for PC are basically just about getting you a growing, on-demand library of downloadable games for your Xbox console or Windows PC respectively — including much newer games than you might think — whereas Game Pass Ultimate gives you both of those subscriptions plus xCloud and all the additional free games, discounts, and online multiplayer that an Xbox Live Gold subscription typically provides.

If you’ve only got a Windows PC, there’s not much reason to buy Ultimate unless you really, really want to try xCloud on your Android phone. (Even then, you might want to hold off until xCloud comes to PC as well.) But for $9.99 a month, the normal Xbox Game Pass for PC already includes access to over 200 PC games, including brand-new titles like Microsoft Flight Simulator. With each of these subscriptions, Microsoft has promised all its new first-party titles will be there at launch. The PC version will also come with EA Play titles later this year.

If you’ve got Windows and Xbox, Ultimate might make more sense so you can play games on both platforms, of course.

But even if you’re just an Xbox console gamer who plays online multiplayer with friends, the Ultimate subscription is tempting for just $5 more than the standard Game Pass — because that’s how much you’d pay for multiplayer anyhow over the course of a 1-year Xbox Live Gold subscription ($60 a year, aka $5 per month for 12 months).

Gold is included with Ultimate for free — and you’d get to try xCloud on your Android phone for free as well.

Plus, Gold comes with additional free games each month that you can keep as long as you’re subscribed, and additional discounts. It’s a heck of a bundle, as long as you’re the kind of person who doesn’t feel the need to own your games in perpetuity, and it seems like it’s going to be a big part of Microsoft’s Xbox strategy going forward — practically every game announced for the Xbox Series X and Series S will appear on Game Pass as well.

Either way, what you’re primarily paying for with Game Pass is that all-you-can-eat catalog, so it’s important to know if it has the games you’d actually want to play. So I suggest you browse Microsoft’s full game lists for PC and console right here.

If instead you’re looking for the full list of games you can stream to a phone, check that out below.

Cloud gaming launch titles:

• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Absolver
• Afterparty
• Age of Wonders: Planetfall
• ARK: Survival Evolved
• Astroneer
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Battletoads
• Battle Chasers: Nightwar
• Black Desert
• Blair Witch
• Bleeding Edge
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
• Bridge Constructor Portal
• Carrion
• Children of Morta
• ClusterTruck
• Crackdown 3: Campaign
• Crosscode
• Darksiders Genesis
• Darksiders III
• DayZ
• de Blob
• Dead by Daylight
• Dead Cells
• Dead Island Definitive Edition
• Death Squared
• Deliver us the moon
• Demon’s Tilt
• Descenders
• Destiny 2: Shadowkeep & Forsaken expansion (September 22)
• DiRT 4
• Don’t Starve
• Double Kick Heroes
• Drake Hollow
• Dungeon of the Endless
• Enter The Gungeon
• F1 2019
• Fallout 76
• Farming Simulator 17
• Felix the Reaper
• Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour
• For the King
• Forager
• Forza Horizon 4
• Fractured Minds
• Frostpunk: Console Edition
• Gato Roboto
• Gears of War 1: Ultimate Edition
• Gears of War 4
• Gears of War 5
• Goat Simulator
• Golf with Your Friends
• Grounded
• Guacamelee! 2
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Halo Wars 1: Definitive Edition
• Halo Wars 2
• Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• Halo: Spartan Assault
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Hello Neighbor
• Hollow Knight (Renewal)
• Hot Shot Racing
• Human Fall Flat
• Hyperdot
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Indivisible
• Journey to the Savage Planet
• Katana ZERO (Coming soon)
• Killer Instinct DE
• Kona
• Levelhead
• Lonely Mountains: Downhill
• Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
• Metro 2033 Redux
• Middle Earth: Shadow of War
• Minecraft: Dungeons
• MINIT
• Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
• Moonlighter
• Mortal Kombat X (Not available in Korea)
• Mount & Blade: Warband
• Moving Out
• Mudrunner
• Munchkin: Quacked Quest
• Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
• My Time At Portia
• Neon Abyss
• New Super Lucky’s Tale
• NieR:Automata
• Night Call
• Night in the Woods (Coming soon)
• No Man’s Sky
• Nowhere Prophet
• Observation
• Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps
• Overcooked! 2
• Oxenfree
• Pathologic 2
• Pikuniku
• Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition
• Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
• ReCore: Definitive Edition
• Remnant: From the Ashes
• Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
• Rise & Shine
• River City Girls (Coming soon)
• Sea of Thieves: Anniversary Edition
• Sea Salt
• Secret Neighbor
• Shadow Warrior 2
• Slay the Spire
• Sniper Elite 4
• Spiritfarer
• State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
• Stellaris
• Stranger Things 3: The Game
• Streets of Rage 4
• Streets of Rogue
• Subnautica
• Surviving Mars
• Tacoma
• Tell Me Why Episode 1 – 3
• Terraria
• The Bard’s Tale IV: Directors Cut
• The Bard’s Tale Remastered and Resnarkled
• The Bard’s Tale Trilogy
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• The Gardens Between
• The Jackbox Party Pack 4
• The Long Dark
• The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game
• The Messenger
• The Outer Worlds
• The Surge 2
• The Touryst
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• The Escapists 2
• The Talos Principle
• The Turing Test
• The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – Episode 1 through 5
• The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode 1 – 3
• The Walking Dead: Season Two
• theHunter: Call of the Wild
• Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
• Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
• Totally Reliable Delivery Service
• Touhou Luna Nights
• Tracks – The Train Set Game
• Trailmakers
• Train Sim World 2020
• Two Point Hospital
• Undermine
• Untitled Goose Game
• Void Bastards
• Wandersong
• Warhammer Vermintide 2 (Coming soon)
• Wasteland Remastered
• Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut
• Wasteland 3
• We Happy Few
• West of Dead
• Wizard of Legend
• World War Z
• Worms W.M.D
• Xeno Crisis
• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza Kiwami 2

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