Xbox Game Pass: The 36 best games that are now worthwhile (August 2021)

The Xbox Game passport brings every month a variety of games with themselves, which is why so slowly the overview is lost. Therefore, we show you in the following listing, which games in the Game Pass currently deserve the best or have earned your attention.

If you want to know if the new Xbox Series X (or Xbox Series S) the right console for Game Pass could be in our test:

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A Plague Tale: Innocence

Genre : Action Adventure
New update received by Smart Delivery
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4k (reconstructed by 1440p), 60 fps, improved details
Xbox Series S enhancements : 4K (reconstructed by 1080p), 60 fps, enhance details

That's why it's : In the medieval action adventure a plague Tale: Innocence there is a rat plague in France in 1349. Rats are also one of the central game elements that they fall on you when you approach you too unprecedented. You take the role of the 14-year-old Amicia, who has to sneak through the world together with her brother Hugo, as it does not have a strong armor.

Next, if you are ... looking for an emotional story.

A Way Out

Genre : Action Adventure
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 1440p / 60 fps, 1080p / 60 fps
Only contain in Game Pass Ultimate

It's about it : For two, she slips into the roles of the Krangkollegen Vincent and Leo. The goal: out of prison. However, you involve the action in an unexpected emotional roller coaster ride. Playfully, A Way Out Munich is changing through the genres: times you knock yourself as in a beat 'em up through the corridors, sometimes you shoot, sometimes a behind wheel clamps.

It plays next when your ... with another teammate / another teammate inaugurate the console.

Bug Fables: The Everlasting SAPLING

Genre : RPG
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not available

It's about it : Bug Fables is strongly oriented to the paper Mario series. Also in the adventure from the view of the brave insects, the entire world is shaped like paper. Also, the game with his humor meets the charm, which is known from the Nintendo series. Although the combat system is round-based, but you can make more damage or better defended more damage through QuickTime events.

Next, if your ... want to experience an absolutely classic RPG in the style of Paper Mario.

Darkest Dungeon

Genre : RPG
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not available

It's about it: Darkest Dungeon applies to many as one of the best role-playing rogue likes of recent years. In the game, you put together a group of adventurers and have to pull through dungeons, locks and more to fulfill quests. The struggles run round-based and you must pay attention to the mental health of your party. The farther you praises in the dungeons, the sooner you risk, one or even all members are permanently losing.

Next, when you ... are looking for a strategic challenge.

Doom Eternal

Genre : ego shooter
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Doom 1-3, Doom 64
New update received by Smart Delivery
Xbox Series X enhancements : 1800P / 120 fps, 2160p / 60 fps, 1800p / raytracing / 60fps
Xbox Series S-Improvements : 1080p / 120 fps, 1440p / 60 fps

That's why it's : In Doom Eternal it is all about one thing. As many demons as possible slacks until the red soup is poured out of each opponent. With different weapons and a new Enterhaken, as a Doom Slayer, she fights against the Hell Army, which the earth currently subjugates.

Its Next, if you ... just want to slow down the demon löt.

Dragon Age: Origins

Genre : RPG
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not available

It's about it : Dragon Age: Origins is the start of the popular series of role-playing veterans of Bioware. You create your own figure, gives your a class and then experienced a story with many decisions. As part of the gray guards, you must liberate the world Thedas from the beings of the underworld, the dark brood.

Next, if your ... want to experience an absolute role-play classic.

Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes of Elusive Age

Genre : RPG
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Dragon Quest Builders 2
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4K / 60 FPS

That's why it's : If the word "Oldschool" would not exist, it would have to be invented for the JRPG Dragon Quest 11. While other Japanese role games such as Final Fantasy 15 or NI NO Kuni 2 experiment with action-rich real-time faming or build-up features, Dragon Quest 11 also returns the same virtues today as already at the series debut 30 years ago.

These include a relatively linear, but with about 80 to 100 hours of extremely extensive campaign, a traditional round-based combat system and of course the unmistakable style of the Dragon-Ball Inventor Akira Toriyama. Playfully, Dragon Quest 11 can be best compared to classic final fantasy parts.

Next, if your ... wants to experience an absolutely classical JRPG.

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Genre : Building simulation
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Dragon Quest 11 S: Echoes Of An Elusive Age
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not available

That's why it's time: Also in Dragon Quest Builders 2, the world of the JRPG of the same name hits creative build as with Minecraft. How the "Builders" reveals at the end of the name, this time it goes back to collecting resources like Earth, Wood or, as it belongs to a Dragon Quest game, to build mucus and building buildings, cities and whole landscapes . Besides building, however, you have to protect the inhabitants of the world and fight against nasty monsters.

It plays next if your ... needs a variety to minecraft.

Fable Anniversary

Genre : RPG
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Fable 2, Fable 3
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4K resolution
Xbox Series S enhancements : 1440p resolution

It's about it : Fable is the big role-playing series of Microsoft, which will continue on the Xbox Series X / S in a few years. With Fable Anniversary you can play the first part of the series again and experience such a fantastic adventure with humor in a Middle Ages setting.

Next, when you ... Bock on a very classic, Western role-playing game.

Fallout 3

Genre : RPG
Other games in series on Game Pass : Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout: New Vegas
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4K resolution
Xbox Series S enhancements : 1440p resolution

It's about it: In the role-playing game, your years after the use of nuclear weapons wakes up alone in a bunker and make you up the way outside. There you have to fight in the finest role-playing manner through a desert landscape full of mutants, dubious people and all sorts of birds of animal losing.

Next, if you ... Big fans of Bethesda Roll Games like Skyrim and the Posta Pokalypse are.

Forza Horizon 4

Genre : racing game
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Forza Motorsport 7
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 4K / 60 FPS on Series X

It's about it : In Forza Horizon 4, you will be shaking through the landscapes of England in four seasons and just celebrating the fun of racing. But it's really about the fun as a dry simulation. So you step as part of the story against a train, a jet and much more in a race.

Next, if you want to experience ... one of the best racing games of the past generation.

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

Genre : Action
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, Gears of War 4, Gears of War 5, Gears of War Judgment, Gears Tactics
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

It's about it : The fight against the Locust Horde starts with the first Gears of War. In this, she plays Marcus Fenix, a person who resists with all sorts of weapons against the mutant people.

It plays next when your ... action pure and a testosterone filled campaign needed.

Grand Theft Car 5

Genre : Action
Xbox Series X / S improvements : No improvements available, native version for Xbox Series X / S comes 2021

That's why it's about: We probably do not have to say much about GTA 5 anymore. The Open World game can be experienced a gangster history in the Fictitious San Andreas. The setting is based on Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas.

It's next when your ... can not wait for the new version and want to experience the gangster epic again for the first time.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection

Genre : ego shooter
Other games in series on Game Pass : Halo Wars, Halo Wars 2, Halo 5: Guardians, Halo: Spartan Assault
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 4K / 120 FPS on Series X, 1080p / 120 FPS Xbox Series S

It's about it : Halo is probably a term every fan of video games. With the Halo: The Master Chief Collection you will receive five games in the series in the best possible variant and can be through all the ballers.

It plays next if your ... finally want to catch up with the iconic row.

Microsoft Flight Simulator

Genre : Simulation
Xbox Series X-Technique: 4K (temporal reconstruction with internal 1440p) / 30 fps
Xbox Series S technique: 1080p / 30 fps
Only available on Xbox Series X / S

That's why: The Microsoft Flight Simulator allows us to control everything from the light plane to huge jets. Since it is a simulation, we have detailed cockpits and a realistic world that we can go through. In addition, there are other justifications like day or night, as well as the changing weather.

It's next when you ... just want to relax and a game is needed without action.

More about the game you will learn in our test:

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Nier Automata

Genre : Action Roleplay
Other games of the series on Game Pass : No
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

It's about it : in the role of 2B, an Android, you have to fight against the machines on earth. For centuries ago, people fled to the moon due to an apocalyptic event. Nier Automata tells a story about what it means to be a human with his soulless protagonists.

It's next when you ... Fast action with philosophical story is looking for.

Octopath Traveler

Genre : RPG
Xbox Series X / S enhancements : Resolution (up to 4k), frame rate (60 fps target)

That's why: In the JRPG Octopath Traveler we do not experience a story, but eight. This is because we decide on a character at the beginning of the game, but still seven other meetings that bring all their own storytables. With our party we travel from city to city to find treasures, to save families or bring back a disappeared teacher home.

Next, when you ... want to deal with a classic role-playing game for a long time.

ori and the blind forest

Genre : Action Adventure
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Ori and the Will of the Wisp
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not known, Will of the WISP gets 120 fps patch

It's about it : Ori And The Blind Forest is a 2D sidescroller with picturesque comic graphics and an emotional story. Her slips in the role of Ori, the last soul monitor and ventilates the secret of a dying forest, which is hit by the evil owl Kuro.

Next plays when you ... want to play an emotional metroidvania with a pretty look.

Outrider

Genre : Action
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 60 FPS target on both consoles, resolution up to 4k (Xbox Series X) and 1440p (Xbox Series S)

That's why it's: Outriders is a gloomy shooter of People Can Fly (Bulletstorm), which should offer a dense story. In it, players explore the lifelong planet ENOCH in search of a mysterious signal, which apparently represents the last hope of the earth and one of humanity consecrated to the demise. However, they introduce terrible alien creatures in the way that can be combated with an arsenal of powerful weapons. OUTRIDERS can be played alone or maximum to third in co-op mode.

Next, if your ... a new cooop shooter is looking for.

Prey

Genre : Action
Xbox Series X / S improvements : FPS boost on 60 fps since the latest possible

That's why it works: In Prey, the protagonist Morgan Yu 2032 wakes up on one of Aliens, which should actually work together with other people at the next evolutionary stage of our species. The game offers an open world with many locations.

It's next when you ... need a shooter with the main focus on the story.

Psychonauts

Genre : Jump 'N' Run
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

It's about it: Slips into the role of RAZ equipped with PSI forces, and spends the summer with other adolescents in a special camp for psychically gifted children. Soon strange incidents in the camp and you have to travel to different thought worlds to solve the puzzle.

Next, if you ... want to prepare for the release of psychonauts 2 in 2021 with its predecessor.

Red Dead Online

Genre : Action
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

That's why it's time : Red Dead Online is the multiplayer decoupling to Red Dead Redemption 2. As a self-created cowboy, you make the Wild West unsafe and decide to you in the open world how you will provide your outlaw for horrors.

plays next, if you .. . More adventures in the world of Red Dead Redemption 2 want to experience.

Resident Evil 7

Genre : Horror
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

That's why it's : In Resident Evil 7, you experience the survival battle from the EGO perspective of the new protagonist Ethan. This is somewhere in the American southern states of the murderous family Baker in the catches and must now try to find their supernatural secret - and to survive. the

It plays next when you ... want to scare you directly.

Sea of Thieves

Genre : Action Adventure
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 4K / 60 FPS on Xbox Series X, 60 FPS on Xbox Series S

It's about it : Sea of Thieves is a multiplayer pirate game in an open Caribbean island world of developer studio rare. You fight and explores the mainland in the ego perspective, seeks treasures and connects to allies together to beat other crews on board vessels against other crews.

Next, if your ... want to start your own pirate crew with several.

Spiritfarer

Genre : Simulation
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not available

It's about it : In spirit, you are the companion of deceased who want to find their last peace. For this, you interact with your souls, plant resources and experienced how the passers-by slowly accept their death.

It plays next, if you ... a game for in between needs little emotional stories told.

Star Wars: Jedi fall orders

Genre : Action Adventure
New update received by Smart Delivery
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4k / 30 fps, 1440p / 60 fps
Xbox Series S enhancements : 1080p / 60 fps
Only contain in Game Pass Ultimate

It's about it : In Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order take over the control of a Jedi-Padawan during the gloomy rule of the Galactic Empire between Episode 3 and Episode 4. When Jedi student has survived CAL Kestisdie Order 66 by Imperator Palpatine And is on the run from the Empire. Darth Vader and the stormtroopers are looking for the galaxy after surviving Jedi to finally destroy the Order.

Next, when you ... Big Star Wars fans are.

Tell Me Why

Genre : Adventure
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

It's about it : Tell Me Why is the latest Adventure of the Life Is Strange-maker. Dontnod shows the handling of Tyler and Ashley Ronan in three episodes, which have lost their mother as a child. The special thing is that the game with Tyler Ronan has a trans man as the main character but without putting this circumstance too much in the foreground.

Next, if your ... want to play a rousing adventure with an important topic.

Tetris Effect Connected

Genre : Puzzle
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4K / 120 fps
Xbox Series S enhancements : 1440p / 120 fps

It's about it : Tetris Effect Connected is exactly what the name promises to promise, a tetris. However, the proven game principle will be expanded to create effects that create a new audiovisual level. So your tetris plays while around you a world of colors and sounds are dancing suitable for your actions.

Next plays when you ... an audiovisual experience looking for your new 4K / HDR TVs completely exploited.

The Ascent

Genre : Action
Xbox Series X enhancements : 4K / 60 FPS
Xbox Series S enhancements : 1440p / 60 fps

That's why: The Ascent is an action roleplay in the cyberpunk scenario, which can be equipped alone as well as a maximum of fourth in co-pop mode. In the distant future you fight through the arcology, a metropolis full of creatures from the entire galaxy built by a powerful group. In the course of the game, the own figure can not only be equipped with different weapons, and your body can be modified by means of cyberware to adapt to your own style of play.

Next, if your ... Bock on pretty cyberpunk clapper.

Titan case 2

Genre : ego shooter
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Titanium ( Game Pass Ultimate )
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 120 fps on both consoles via FPS boost
Only contain in Game Pass Ultimate

That's why it's : In titanium 2, it goes again to multiplayer battles in a distant future, in which governments have been replaced by corporations and the naming titan combat robot is a crucial gameplay element. This time, however, there is also a singleplayer campaign that can be played completely offline. In it, you play a border soldier who absolutely wants to become titanium pilot and will be sent in the course of the campaign with a Vanguard class titanium on a break-breaking mission.

Next, if you ... gladly begins but still want to experience a story

Undertaly

Genre : RPG
Xbox Series X / S improvements : not available

It's about it: Undertale is an indie roleplay of Toby Fox. It tells the story of a child who falls into the world of monsters and has a way through a foreign empire. Undertaly mixes his action with silly, funny and bizarre moments. The combat system is a mix of round-based actions and a mini-game in which you would have to avoid attacks with your figure.

Next, if you ... One of the most unique role-playing games of recent years needed.

Unvavel 2

Genre : Puzzle
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Ulavel ( Game Pass Ultimate )
Xbox Series X / S improvements : 120 FPS via FPS boost possible
Only contain in Game Pass Ultimate

That's why it's : UNVELVEL 2 is a side scroller where your woolen ball is controlled. You jump to platform platform and uses the wool thread as a kind of lasso to avoid dangers and solve puzzles.

Next, if your ... want a relaxing co-op game.

Wasteland 3

Genre : RPG
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Wasteland Remastered, Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
Xbox Series X - Improvements : 4K / 30 FPS or 1080P / 60 FPS
Xbox Series S enhancements : 1080p / 60 fps
Only contain in Game Pass Ultimate

That's why it's time: In RPG Wasteland 3 we play a group survivor of the unit "November" and fight us in tactical lap loatchs through a postalapocalypal wasteland. This time, the setting is based on the US state of Colorado, where your ranger base is expanding and talking to all sorts of NPCs thanks to a revised dialogue system. There is also a co-op mode for the first time.

Next, when you ... a gigantic role-playing game is looking for a long time to the screen.

Yakuza 0

Genre : Action
Other games of the series on Game Pass : Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Kiwami 2
Xbox Series X / S improvements : unknown

It's about it : In Yakuza 0 you will learn how the protagonist Kazuma Kiryu has risen in a Tokyo of the 80s to the honorable Yakuza member. But you not only play the sympathetic hero but also the crazy, former villain Goro Majima, whose fate is firmly interwoven with Kiryu.

It's next when you are ... Japan fans are and you want to clink with gangsters through the underworld.

Yakuza 7: Like A Dragon

Genre : Action
Xbox Series X / S improvements : Higher Resolution (Quality Mode), up to 60 fps (Performance mode)

Should you play Neverwinter in 2021? It's about it : Protagonist Ichiban Kasuga is a loyal member of his Yakuza family. After he comes from the prison for a murder he did not commit, he will be repelled by the family. From now on, he finds himself again as a homeless in the Japanese city of Yokohama.

The special : Ichiban experiences the world as in an Old-School-RPG Ala Dragon Quest. This exchanges the entire gameplay and from an action game will be a classic, round-based JRPG.

It's next when you ... are in search of a classic but funny written role-playing game. Note : This list should always include only one part of each row. But Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 7 are playfully different and barely linked, so they contribute completely to other target groups. Which game plans to play you next in the Game Pass?