Two of the biggest, most popular and most utterly enormous RPGs of the recent era are coming to Xbox Game Pass in the next few weeks. First, on February 19, the Complete Edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt arrives on Microsoft’s gaming subscription platform, followed by Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on March 3. And that’s alongside a bunch of other games of note.
February has already seen the arrival of a preview build of RTS Menace and the arrival of Diablo II: Resurrected and High on Life 2 to Game Pass, which is hard to sniff at (until you remember that Microsoft increased the price of the subscription from $20 to $30 a month last year). But the second half of the month is much more busy, starting today with the addition of Aerial_Knight’s DropShot, and Ubisoft’s surprisingly great Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Additionally, Obsidian’s wonderful RPG Avowed is brought down from Ultimate to Premium, to let more people in.
Coming up in a couple of days is Death Howl, a deckbuilder that was already on PC Game Pass and is now spreading its spiritual wings to console, joined by last July’s EA Sports College Football 26. And then there’s the rather large matter of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt‘s return to Game Pass after leaving way back in 2021. This time the CD Projekt RPG is in its updated Complete Edition form. (It’s worth noting you can grab the same from Steam for just $10 right now.)
Another game preview arrives Feb 24 with TCG Card Shop Simulator, which hopefully won’t include regular break-ins from which to recover. The next day, PC Game Pass gets dice-rolling roguelike Dice a Million, and the day after that, on Feb. 26, action-RPG Towerborne comes out of early access as a fully finished release.
Jump to March 3 (presumably February is just too short of a month to cram it all in) and two more big names get squished in. First is Final Fantasy III, and then the headliner, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. Last year’s action-RPG from Warhorse was a smash hit, and despite the company’s CEO and director Daniel Vavra having been a consistently destructive voice in the industry, the game somehow managed to piss off all the worst people for its more progressive values. Hooray!
Anyway, if Witcher 3 and KCDII aren’t enough to keep you busy on top of High on Life 2 and Avatar, I dunno how to help you.
