First Games For 2025 Have Been Announced For Xbox Game Pass

New year Which means new games coming to Xbox Game Pass and the first for 2025 have been announced and they aren’t bad.

Diablo (PC) – January 14
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

Diablo is an action role-playing video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment in January 1997, and is the first installment in the video game series of the same name.

Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras in the mortal realm, the player controls a lone hero battling to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen randomly generated dungeon levels, ultimately entering Hell in order to face Diablo.

EA Sports UFC 5 (Cloud and Xbox Series X|S) EA Play – January 14
Game Pass Ultimate

EA SPORTS™ UFC® 5 is as real as it gets. Powered by Frostbite™ engine’s advanced rendering capabilities, your favorite fighters now have unparalleled character likenesses to complement next-level environment fidelity that’ll make their walk to the Octagon feel like a PPV main event.
The all-new Real Impact System brings the intensity and strategy of a fight to life, as cuts and strikes absorbed can affect mobility, defence, stamina, and more. Take too much damage, and the doctor could stop the fight. For lovers of the ground game, Seamless Submissions makes grappling feel more fluid and realistic than ever before.

And if you like to admire your handiwork, new Cinematic K.O. Replays capture your fight-ending finishes in all their punishing glory. UFC 5 updates with fresh new Fight Week content, features, and challenges every single month around real-world UFC events. Plus, Alter Egos offer new versions of your favourite fighters to play with every month. Bring the next evolution of the fight game home with UFC 5.

My Time at Sandrock (Console) – January 8
Game Pass Standard

Welcome to Sandrock, a fascinating little city nestled deep within the Wild West. Ravaged years ago, it is now up to you, your tools and your Builder’s skills to restore Sandrock to its former glory.

Your experience will be as adventurous as it will be wholesome. When you are not searching for mysteries and hidden treasures on a galloping horse, use all the resources you’ve found to vigorously reconstruct the city and cultivate its land. Build and customize your headquarters and city buildings, craft and upgrade modern tools and machinery, revive farming and ranching, and fix damaged Sandrock technologies. Discover, buy or unlock new designs to always expand your builder’s crafting book and prove yourself by earning the most enviable title of all: Builder of the Month!

Explore the lives of a huge cast of characters who inhabit the town, each with their own story to tell. Help them all with their personal hopes and desires as well as embarking on your quest to save their home from bandits, monsters, and anything else the Eufaula Desert can throw at you.

Rolling Hills (Console) – January 8
Game Pass Standard

Serve up sushi as a robot chef in Rolling Hills, a life sim about running your own restaurant in a cozy village! Make new friends, discover peculiar recipes, and decorate your shop.

Lightyear Frontier (Game Preview) (Xbox Series X|S) – January 8
Game Pass Standard

Settle your homestead on this beautiful alien planet with the help of a powerful mech. Build, explore, plant crops, raise animals, gather and manage resources, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.

Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders (Xbox Series X|S) – January 8
Game Pass Standard

Join Robin Hood and his unwavering band of outlaws in 12th-century England on their mission to free Nottingham. Travel across various regions, build up a secret hideout village and help the denizens of the surrounding lands. Complete quests, construct various builds, craft a broad range of items, and freely explore locations inspired by both myth and history in this open-world RPG with base-building features.

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