This was apparently insufficient, since Microsoft have just laid out more games coming to their game subscription service in the Month Of Aug, including Humankind, 12 Minutes and Psychonauts 2. Microsoft laid out the calendar in a new blog post. Top of the list is Humankind, the history-spanning 4X from Amplitude which is available as of today to conicide with its full release. In his Humankind review, Nate called it a heavyweight alternative to Civilization - strange, overwhelming, and an at times extremely rich strategy game. There are a couple of other big day-and-date Game Pass launches this month, with timeloop escape room 12 Minutes and mind palace platformer Psychonauts 2. The latter is no surprise, as developers Double Fine were one of Microsoft’s many acquisitions over the past few years. There’s also the Myst remake on the way on August 26th, in case you want to check whether Myst is good yet. Here’s the full list:
Humankind - Today Need For Speed Heat (cloud) - Today Star Wars Battlefront 2 (cloud) - Today Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (cloud) - Today Recompile - August 19th Train Sim World 2 - August 19th 12 Minutes - August 19th Psychonauts 2 - August 25th Myst - August 26th
The post also mentions a couple of recent additions you might have missed, including Boyfriend Dungeon which launched this past week. Plus Stardew Valley is coming sometime this autumn. I don’t personally subscribe to Game Pass, but dang, it’s a lot of games, isn’t it?
