It’s the first month of 2024, which means it’s time for a new crop of Xbox Game Pass titles to satiate your growing appetite for games. And January’s offerings are solid, serving up everything from hundred-hour-long RPGs to survival horror remakes to four action-adventures and more. If you’re a Game Pass member, it’s a good start to the year.
Microsoft is handing out eight games to Xbox Game Pass subscribers over the next two weeks. Right now, you can download Storm in a Teacup’s first-person horror adventure game Close to the Sun, which is set in an alternate reality 1897 where there’s a technological war going on between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. It looks like a really tense, atmospheric journey similar to Dishonored 2 and The Order: 1886.
January 4 brings Hell Let Loose, Cover 6 Studios and Expression Games’ multiplayer tactical first-person shooter set in iconic battles spanning the Western, Eastern Fronts, and North African campaigns of World War II. Bedtime Digital Games’ cute and surreal action-adventure game figurinewhich has some Bastion vibes, will be available on January 9. Both Compulsion Games’ survival horror adventure game We Happy Few and Metalhead Software’s arcade-y baseball sim Super Mega Baseball 4 are downloadable on January 11. Then you have Those Who RemainCamel 101’s first-person psychological horror thriller that you can download on January 16.
The headliners of this month’s list, though, are Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The former will be available on January 9, while the latter will be offered on January 16. All in all, it’s a pretty fantastic set of games to get 2024 started.
January 2024 Xbox Game Pass Titles
- Close to the Sun (Cloud, Console, and PC) — Available now
- Hell Let Loose (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) — January 4
- Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (Cloud, Console, and PC) — January 9
- figurine (Cloud, Console, and PC) — January 9
- Super Mega Baseball 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC) EA Play — January 11
- We Happy Few (Cloud, Console, and PC) — January 11
- Resident Evil 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) — January 16
- Those Who Remain (Cloud, Console, and PC) — January 16
January is certainly the year off with a bang—there’s a whole avalanche of titles coming throughout the next 12 months, although not all of them will be on Game Pass. Get ready, your backlog is only going to get bigger.
