After some slower months,Xbox Game Passlooks like it’s getting ready to kick things up a gear or two for its September 2024 line-up. At the time of writing, there are already seven games confirmed forXbox Game Pass' September 2024 line-up, five of which are day-one launches. This is quite a significant step up from Game Pass' August offerings, where just two of its seven additions were day-one releases.
That being said,Xbox Game Pass' September 2024 line-upmight be a tad divisive. While Game Pass' monthly drop tends to deliver experiences from a variety of different gaming genres, this month is catering primarily to fans of two quite specific genres: strategy and simulation.
Xbox Game Pass Is Catering to Strategy and Simulator Fans This September
Xbox Game Pass Has Three Day-One Strategy Games This September
Probably the most exciting set ofday-one releases Xbox Game Passhas seen in quite some time,Age of Mythology: Retold,Frostpunk 2, andAra: History Untoldare all set to hit the subscription service on their respective launch dates. All three of these day-one Game Pass launches belong to the strategy genre, but all follow a slightly different approach to gameplay.
Age of Mythology: Retoldis a remake of the 2002 Ensemble Studios real-time strategy classic. An offshoot oftheAge of Empiresseries,Age of Mythologytakes a more fantastical approach to medieval real-time strategy, tasking players with creating a town, managing their resources, and conquering the neighboring players' villages with an array of different old-time-y and fantastical warriors.
Frostpunk 2is the much-anticipated follow-up to11 Bit Studios' 2018 dystopian city-builder. Here, the player’s only goal is to keep their steampunk city and its inhabitants alive through a new ice age, which requires some difficult decisions and plenty of grim sacrifices.Ara: History Untold, on the other hand, is a 4X strategy game in a similar vein toCivilization.
Xbox Game Pass Is Adding Three Simulator Games This September
The other bulk of Xbox Game Pass additions this September come from the simulation genre, specifically the vehicle sim sub-genre.Star Truckeris a day-one title for Xbox Game Passthis month that’s being developed by just two people.Star Truckerputs a Sci-Fi twist on the truck sim formula that’s become something of a cult phenomenon over the last few years, tasking players with shipping cargo across the galaxy, looking after their space rig, and manually mapping out their route through the stars.
Expeditions: A MudRunner Gamewas originally released back in March of this year, and it received pretty solid reviews at the time for its slower-paced, satisfying sim exploration gameplay.Train Sim World 5is the latest entry in Dovetail Games' surprisingly extensive transportation-oriented sim series.Train Sim World’s first entry was released in 2017, and it’s been a non-stop train of releases since, with mainline entries dropping almost every year, and expansion packs dropping even more frequently.
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