Xbox Game Pass May 2021: These games have now been announced and are as follows with the following dates, and if you’re subscribed to Xbox Game Pass (which you can do for a single trial month for $1, which works out around 83p in the UK), you can play all of the following, but note that while some are for both console, Android and PC, some are one or more:
SnowRunner (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available Now: SnowRunner puts you in the driver’s seat of powerful vehicles as you conquer extreme open environments with the most advanced terrain simulation ever. Drive over 40 vehicles from brands such as Ford, Chevrolet, and Freightliner as you leave your mark on an untamed open world
Peggle 2 (Cloud) EA Play – May 20: Peggle 2 is a magical game full of bouncing balls, magical pegs, and bricks made of pure compressed joy! Test your luck and skill by clearing pegs, bashing bricks, and timing your shots just right to achieve extreme fever!
Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville (Cloud) EA Play – May 20: Ready the Juice Cannons and prepare for battle! Unearth 20 fully customizable character classes, tackle hilarious missions, defeat epic bosses, go all-out against friends and foes in six PvP modes, including Battle Arena, and more. Experience the unbeleafable thrills of combat today with EA Play!
Secret Neighbor (PC) ID@Xbox – May 20: Secret Neighbor is a suspenseful multiplayer horror game where a group of kids try to rescue their friend from the Neighbor’s creepy basement – the only problem is one of the kids is the Neighbor in disguise.
The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20: With 35 species to hunt, you’ll have to work up your strategy and tactics to catch every boss fish. To succeed you’ll need to choose your angling spot, based on time of day, weather conditions and perfect equipment, before casting out to battle and catch these elusive creatures.
The Wild at Heart (Console and PC) ID@Xbox – May 20: Day one with Xbox Game Pass! The Wild at Heart is a whimsical story centered around two children that escape to a fantastical land filled with magical creatures to befriend and an oddball order of guardians who’ve lost their way. Explore a beautiful, handcrafted world full of charming puzzles and deep secrets. Welcome to the Deep Woods.
Knockout City (Console and PC) EA Play – May 21: Day one with Xbox Game Pass for PC and Ultimate with EA Play!Calling all brawlers! Team up and duke it out in Knockout City, where epic dodgeball battlers settle the score in team-based multiplayer matches. Throw, catch, pass, dodge, and tackle your way to dodgeball dominance!
Maneater (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – May 25: Maneater is a single-player action RPG, set in the Gulf Coast’s unforgiving waters. Fight to survive in the open ocean, swamps, and rivers with danger lurking at every depth. Your only tools are your wits, your jaws, and an uncanny ability to evolve as you feed.
Conan Exiles (Cloud and Console) ID@Xbox – May 27 – Optimized for Series X|S on May 27: Alone and naked in a hostile land, your first task is simply to survive. Then you must build a stronghold and gather your allies. And from there, you can set out to dominate your enemies. Conan Exiles is a single and multiplayer survival game, set in a massive open-world sandbox with mythical beasts, perilous dungeons, and the freedom to play whichever way you like.
Fuzion Frenzy (Cloud) – May 27: The Xbox original Fuzion Frenzy combines the continuous, frenetic action of a futuristic street sport with the action-packed fun of mini-games set in a dynamic 3-D urban environment. Six arenas and more than 45 mini-games provide plenty of competitive fun for up to four players.
Joy Ride Turbo (Cloud) – May 27: Joy Ride Turbo is an arcade racer delivering precision handling, speed, and crazy stunt mayhem! In the Stunt Park, show off your skills or explore and find collectibles that unlock cars, giving you an edge for faster races and death-defying stunts.
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries (Console) ID@Xbox – May 27: Welcome to the year 3015! It’s a hell of a time to be alive. Humanity has colonized thousands of star systems, war is everywhere, and the battlefields of the future are dominated by hulking machines known as BattleMechs. It’s dangerous work for the elite pilots of these metal monstrosities, but that’s why a power-hungry MechWarrior like you came here, right? If you’re looking to blast, wreck, stomp – and profit – step inside!
Slime Rancher (PC) ID@Xbox – May 27: Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes. With a can-do attitude, plenty of grit, and her trusty vacpack, Beatrix attempts to stake a claim, amass a fortune, and avoid the continual peril that looms from the rolling, jiggling avalanche of slimes around every corner!
Solasta: Crown of the Magister (PC) ID@Xbox – May 27: Discover the shattered world of Solasta. Explore ruins and dungeons for legendary treasures, learn the truth of an age-old cataclysm, and stop it from happening again. Tailor your squad to your preferred strategy and maximize your party’s abilities in classic tabletop RPG tradition. The choice is yours.
SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest (PC) – May 27: Make your mark in the chaotic world of Nortander in SpellForce 3: Soul Harvest. Explore and prosper, build and lead armies, develop your character, and defend the throne in this story of renegades and rebellion.
Xbox Game Pass May 2021 Games – Free Games! (UPDATED!)
Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Console and PC) – May 4: A block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, create, and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players. This version includes: Hotto Stuff Pack, Modernist Pack, Aquarium Pack, Designer’s Sunglasses, Historic Headwear, Dragonlord’s Throne, and more!
FIFA 21 (Console and PC) EA Play – May 6: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC members can hit the pitch and get great rewards when FIFA 21 is added to The Play List with EA Play, including a fresh EA Play Volta Squad Boost and FUT Season XP Boost.
Outlast 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) ID@Xbox – May 6: Sequel to the acclaimed survival horror game Outlast, set within the same universe as the first game, but with different characters and a different setting, Outlast 2 is a twisted new journey into the depths of the human mind and its dark secrets.
Steep (Cloud and Console) – May 6: Ride a massive open world across the Alps, where the powder is always fresh, and the run never ends. Tame the wilderness on the American continent in Alaska, a new region filled with challenges. The mountain is yours to explore. So, strap in, suit up, and drop in.
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (Console and PC) – May 13: Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster brings the timeless classics forward to the current generation of fans, old and new alike. Fully immerse yourself in the World of Spira as you enjoy over 100 combined hours of gameplay across the two classic titles.
Just Cause 4: Reloaded (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 13: Just Cause 4 Reloaded delivers an expansive and explosive experience with new weapons, vehicles, and gear included! Soar through the skies at high speeds using the Skystriker Weaponized Wingsuit or cruise the roads of Solís using the Deathstalker Scorpion Muscle Car.
Psychonauts (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 13: A psychic adventure from the mind of Tim Schafer. Psychonauts follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin. Explore the fantastic realm of the inner mind – Join the Psychonauts!
Red Dead Online (Cloud and Console) – May 13: Join millions of fellow players in Red Dead Online, now packed with years’ worth of new features, gameplay, and additional enhancements. Step into a vibrant, ever-evolving world and experience life across frontier America. Forge your own path as you chase down bounties, battle outlaw gangs and other players; hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run Moonshine, and much more to discover in a world of astounding depth and detail.
Remnant: From the Ashes (PC) – May 13: The world has been thrown into chaos by an ancient evil from another dimension. As one of the last remnants of humanity, you must set out alone or alongside up to two other survivors to face down hordes of deadly enemies to try to carve a foothold, rebuild, and retake what was lost.
Xbox Game Pass May 2021 Games – Free Games! (UPDATED!)
But what about the games leaving this month?
The games leaving Xbox Game Pass May 2021:
- TBA
Xbox Game Pass May 2021 Games: Complete Xbox Game Pass Games on on console for Xbox One, 360, Xbox Live and original Xbox:
- Absolver
ACA NeoGeo Metal Slug X
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (March 19th, 2020)
A Plague Tale: Innocence
Alan Wake (added May 21st, 2020)
Alien Isolation
Alvastia Chronicles (leaving March 15th, 2021)
Ark: Survival Evolved
Ark: Survival Evolved: Explorer’s Edition (added November 17th, 2020)
Assetto Corsa (added December 10th, 2020)
Astroneer
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Bard’s Tale Remastered and Resnarkled (from June 18th, 2020)
The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut
The Bard’s Tale Trilogy
Batman Arkham Knight
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
Battletoads (added August 20th, 2020)
Beholder: Complete Edition (added December 17th, 2020)
Blair Witch
Bleeding Edge (March 24th, 2020)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (leaving March 15th, 2021)
Borderlands 2
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Bridge Constructor Portal
Brutal Legend (added October 8th, 2020)
Call of the Sea (added December 8th, 2020)
Carrion (added July 23rd, 2020)
Carto (added October 27th, 2020)
Celeste (added November 5th, 2020)
Children of Morta
Cities: Skylines (arriving May 21st, 2020)
ClusterTruck
Code Vein (added December 17th, 2020)
Control (added December 3rd, 2020)
Costume Quest 2
Crackdown 3
Creature in the Well
Cricket 19 (added October 22nd, 2020)
CrossCode (added July 9th, 2020)
Darksiders: Genesis (added August 6th, 2020)
Day of the Tentacle Remastered (added October 29th, 2020)
DayZ (arriving May 7th, 2020)
de Blob (leaving February 15th, 2021)
Dead by Daylight
Dead Cells
Dead Island Definitive Edition
Death Squared (leaving 29th January 2021)
Deep Rock Galactic (added November 5th, 2020)
Deliver Us the Moon (leaving April 15th, 2021)
Demon’s Tilt
Descenders
Desperados 3 (added 21st January, 2021)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Destiny 2 expansions Forsaken, Shadowkeep, Beyond Light (added September 22nd and November 10th, 2020)
DiRT 4 (leaving February 24th, 2021)
Dirt 5 (added February 25th, 2021)
Dishonored Definitive Edition (added March 12th, 2021)
Dishonored 2 (with FPS Boost support,added March 12th, 2021)
Disneyland Adventures
Doom (1993) (added March 12th, 2021)
Doom 2 (added March 12th, 2021)
Doom 3 (added March 12th, 2021)
Doom 64 (added March 12th, 2021)
Doom Eternal (added October 1st, 2020)
Double Dragon Neon
Double Kick Heroes (added August 28th, 2020)
Don’t Starve: Giant Edition (added August 20th, 2020)
Donut County (added 21st January, 2021)
Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition (added December 4th, 2020)
Drake Hollow (added August 28th, 2020)
Dungeon of the Endless (from June 11th, 2020)
Eastshade (added November 5th, 2020)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (added March 12th, 2021)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (added March 12th, 2021)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition (added December 15th, 2020)
The Elder Scrolls Online (added March 12th, 2021)
Elite Dangerous (added February 25th, 2021)
Empire of Sin (added March 18th, 2021)
Enter the Gungeon
The Evil Within (added March 12th, 2021)
F1 2018
Fable Anniversary
Fable II
Fable 3
Fallout 4 (added March 12th, 2021)
Fallout 76 (added March 12th, 2021)
Fallout 76 (added July 9th, 2020)
Fallout: New Vegas
Final Fantasy VII HD (added August 6th, 2020)
Final Fantasy IX (arriving May 9th, 2020)
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (added February 11th, 2021)
Final Fantasy XV (leaving 29th January 2021)
Fishing Sim World: Pro Tour (leaving 29th January 2021)
Five Nights at Freddy’s (added October 29th, 2020)
For the King
Forager (added July 16th, 2020)
Forza Motorsport 7 (added October 8th, 2020)
Fractured Minds (arriving May 14th, 2020)
Frostpunk: Console Edition
Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox One)
Full Throttle Remastered (added October 29th, 2020)
Fusion Frenzy (Xbox One)
Galaga Legions DX
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Gang Beasts (added December 10th, 2020)
Gato Roboto (leaving April 15th, 2021)
Gears of War
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
Gears of War: Judgment
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 3
Gears of War 4
Gears 5
Gears Tactics (added November 9th, 2020)
Genesis Noir (added March 25th, 2021)
Goat Simulator
Golf with Your Friends (added May 19th, 2020)
Gonner Blüeberry Edition
Gonner2 (added October 22nd, 2020)
Grim Fandango Remastered (added October 29th, 2020)
GreedFall (added December 10th, 2020)
Grounded (Xbox Game Preview; added July 28th, 2020)
GTA 5 (arriving April 8th, 2021)
Guacamelee! 2
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Halo Reach
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars: Definite Edition
Halo Wars 2
Halo: Spartan Assault
Haven (added December 3rd, 2020)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Hello Neighbor
Hotshot Racing (added September 10th, 2020)
Human Fall Flat
Hyperdot (April 30th, 2020)
Hypnospace Outlaw (added August 27th, 2020)
Hyperdot (leaving March 31st, 2021)
Ikenfell (added October 8th, 2020)
Indivisible (leaving 29th January 2021)
Injustice 2 (added 7th January 2021)
It Lurks Below (added August 6th, 2020)
Jetpac Refulled
The Jackbox Party Pack 4 (leaving February 28th, 2021)
Journey to the Savage Planet (leaving March 31st, 2021)
Jurassic World Evolution (added February 11th, 2021)
Kameo
Katana Zero (added October 15th, 2020)
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct Definitive Edition
Killer Instinct Classic
Killer Instinct 2 Classic
Killer Queen Black (added February 23rd, 2021)
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 and 2.5 ReMix (from June 11th, 2020)
Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue (from June 11th, 2020)
Kingdom Hearts 3
Knights and Bikes (added November 5th, 2020)
Kona (leaving March 15th, 2021)
Levelhead (added April 30th, 2020)
Lichtspeer: Double Speer Edition
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Madden 15 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
Madden 16 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
Madden 17 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
Madden 18 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
Madden 21 (EA Play, added March 2nd, 2021)
Madden 25 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite
Mass Effect
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Minecraft
MLB The Show 21 (arriving April 20th, 2021)
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight (leaving February 28th, 2021)
Monster Hunter World
Monster Sanctuary (added December 8th, 2020)
Monster Train (added December 17th, 2020)
Moonlighter
MotoGP 20 (added December 17th, 2020)
Mount and Blade: Warband (added July 16th, 2020)
Mutant Year Zero
My Friend Pedro (leaving January 2021)
My Time at Portia
Narita Boy (added March 30th, 2021)
NBA 2K21 (added March 4th, 2021)
Neon Abyss (added July 14th, 2020)
Neoverse (added December 17th, 2020)
New Super Lucky’s Tale (added August 21st, 2020)
NHL 18 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
NHL 19 (EA Play, leaving April 16th, 2021)
NHL 21 (EA Play, arriving April 12th, 2021)
Nier Automata – Become as Gods Edition (April 2nd, 2020)
Night Call (from June 24th, 2020)
Night in the Woods (added September 24th, 2020)
Ninja Gaiden II (leaving February 15th, 2021)
No Man’s Sky (from June 11th, 2020)
Nowhere Prophet (added July 30th, 2020)
Observation (from June 25th, 2020)
Octopath Traveler (added March 25th, 2021)
Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Will of the Wisp (March 11, 2020)
Outer Wilds
Outriders (arriving April 1st, 2021)
Overcooked! 2
Oxenfree (leaving February 28th, 2021)
Pandemic: The Board Game
Payday 2: Crimewave Edition
eFootball PES 2021 (added 7th January 2021)
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Phogs! (added December 3rd, 2020)
Pillars of Eternity
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire – Ultimate Edition (added February 18th, 2021)
Planet Coaster: Console Edition (added November 10th, 2020)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (March 26th, 2020)
Prey (with FPS Boost support,added March 12th, 2021)
Project Winter (added February 4th, 2021)
Quantum Break
Rage 2
Rainbow Six Siege (added October 22nd, 2020)
Rain on Your Parade (arriving April 15th, 2021)
Rare Replay
ReCore Definitive Edition
Remnant: From the Ashes
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (added September 3rd, 2020)
River City Girls (added November 19th, 2020)
Rocket League
Rush: A DisneyPixar Adventure
Ryse: Son of Rome
ScourgeBringer (added October 21st, 2020)
Sea of Thieves
Sea Salt (leaving 29th January 2021)
Secret Neighbor
Shadow Warrior 2
Shadows of the Damned (EA Play; leaving February 15th, 2021)
Shenmue 1 and 2
Slay The Spire
Slime Rancher (added December 3rd, 2020)
Sniper Elite 4 (offers FPS Boost support)
Soulcalibur VI (added July 1st, 2020)
Spiritfarer (added August 18th, 2020)
Star Renegades (added November 19th, 2020)
Star Wars: Squadrons (EA Play, added March 18th, 2021)
State of Decay: Year-One
State of Decay 2
State of Decay 2: Heartland
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones (added February 11th, 2021)
Stellaris
Streets of Rage 4
Streets of Rogue (from June 25th, 2020)
Subnautica
Sunset Overdrive
Super Lucky’s Tale
Superhot: Mind Control Delete (added December 10th, 2020)
Supraland (added October 22nd, 2020)
Surviving Mars
Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet (leaving January 2021)
Tacoma (leaving October 30th, 2020)
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (added October 15th, 2020)
Tekken 7 (leaving January 2021)
Tell Me Why – Chapter 1 (added August 27th, 2020)
Tell Me Why – Chapter 2 (added September 3rd, 2020)
Tell Me Why – Chapter 3 (added September 10th, 2020)
Terraria
Tetris Effect: Connected (added November 10th, 2020)
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (added August 6th, 2020)
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited
The Escapists 2
The Gardens Between
The Little Acre (added 7th January 2021)
The Long Dark (April 16th, 2020)
The Falconeer (added February 4th, 2021)
The Messenger (from June 25th, 2020)
The Medium (added January, 28th 2021 – Xbox Series and PC only)
The Outer Worlds
The Surge 2 (March 19th, 2020)
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season
The Walking Dead: Michonne
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (leaving March 15th, 2021)
theHunter: Call of The Wild
Thimbleweed Park
Thronebreaker (from June 18th, 2020)
Totally Accurate Battle Simulator
Totally Reliable Delivery Service
Torchlight 3 (added 14th January 2021)
Touhou Luna Nights (added September 3rd, 2020)
The Touryst (added July 30th, 2020)
Trailmakers (added August 6th, 2020)
Two Point Hospital
UnderMine (added August 6th, 2020)
Undertale (added March 16th, 2021)
Unruly Heroes (added October 29th, 2020)
Unto The End (added December 9th, 2020)
Vambrace: Cold Soul (leaving February 28th, 2021)
Viva Pinata
Vita Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Void Bastards
Wandersong
Wargroove (leaving April 15th, 2021)
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (added September 24th, 2020)
Wasteland Remastered
Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut
Wasteland 3 (added August 28th, 2020)
We Happy Few
West of Dead (from June 18th, 2020)
What Remains of Edith Finch
Wilmot’s Warehouse (added December 17th, 2020)
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (added March 12th, 2021)
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
World War Z
Worms W.M.D.
Wreckfest (added February 18th, 2021)
Xeno Crisis (added August 6th, 2020)
Yakuza Kiwami 2 (added July 30th, 2020)
Yakuza Remastered Collection: Yakuza 3-5 Remastered (added January 28th, 2021)
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (added March 25th, 2021)
Yes, Your Grace (added December 3rd, 2020)
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (added December 10th, 2020)
Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection
Zombie Army 4: Dead War (arriving April 8th, 2021)
That’s all for the Xbox Game Pass May 2021. Come back soon for the June 2021 games!
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Xbox Game Pass May 2021 Games
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