It is official: Outriders, the long-awaited People Can Fly looter-shooter, is coming to the Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft confirmed in a blog post today. It will be available from April 1st.
Last week, the ever-daring Xbox Game Pass Twitter account posted another “leaked” email from “Melissa McGamepass”, Hinting at the news. On Friday, a lot games published by Bethesda have been added to the Game Pass library. But apparently there was more– something about an unannounced new game also coming to Microsoft’s on-demand game service. The note also referred to a “mysterious signal” and an “anomaly”.
Some observers, including KotakuSlack’s own channel, quickly traced the connection with Outriders. Last month, People Can Fly released a demo for the game. At the end of the demonstration, you are informed about a signal transmitted from a distant location. You propose to explore it, but you are interrupted by one of those annoying “Pre-order our game” screens. (Do not pre-order the game.) Furthermore, Outriders it makes a lot of noise about an “anomaly” – a persistent storm that ravages Enoch’s planet, where the game takes place. It didn’t take long for players to read between the lines.
THE Outriders demo rules, by the way, and is available for virtually all platforms (except for Switch). If you like third-person shooter games, loot grinds, western-themed space opera, tacky jokes or social centers, You should take a look.
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People can fly it says you can transfer the progress between the demo and the main game, as long as you stay on the same family of platforms. So, if you’ve played the demo three times on PlayStation, you’ll have to start from scratch on the Xbox. But if you played – or played – on the Xbox, you can continue your progression when the main game starts. (Outriders fully supports cross game.)
It’s another huge trap for the Xbox Game Pass. The addition of Bethesda games is huge, obviously, as is the relatively recent addition of EA Play (at least for subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate) And there’s continued access to any original Microsoft game, a benefit that speaks for itself.
But consider the appeal of Outriders. There is a substantial demo of the game available now. You can only upload your data if you stay on the same platform. So, if you had access to multiple platforms, which one would you choose to play: the one where you would have to pay the full price for a new game? Or the one where you will be included in the service that you are probably already paying for? Today’s announcement makes the choice much easier.