When 2020 comes to an end, Microsoft unveiled the free games that Xbox Live Gold subscribers can claim in January 2021 as part of their Games with Gold program. Xbox users can catch Breakdown, Dead Rising, The King of Fighters XIII and Little Nightmares for free during the month of January. All four games are available to any Xbox One and Xbox Series X owner | S with an Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Check the list below for availability.
Free Xbox games with gold in January 2021
- Little nightmares: 1 to 31 January
- The King of Fighters XIII: January 1-15
- Discrimination: 16 to 31 January
- Dead Rising: January 16th to February 15th
Developed by Tarsier Studios and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, Little nightmares is a 2D horror platform game in which players must survive a huge industrial ship called The Maw with the fragile son Six, dressed in a yellow raincoat. Having released with critical acclaim in 2017 and receiving some DLC pieces after that, Tarsier Studios announced that a sequel was in progress in 2019. Little Nightmares 2 will be released on February 11, 2021.
While not the most recent entry for The King of Fighters, The King of Fighters XIII is one of the most recognizable, having been on the market for six years before creator SNK launched The King of Fighters XIV in 2016. The King of Fighters XIII features mechanics familiar to fans of the series, such as its traditional 3v3 team composition. This entry also features the new EX mode, a buff that unleashes a more powerful version of a character’s special. SNK recently confirmed that a revelation for The King of Fighters XV will debut early next month.
Dead Rising is Capcom’s craziest approach to the zombie apocalypse, following journalist Frank West while he is stuck in a mall located in a city that is experiencing an outbreak. Players can use everything in the mall as a weapon, from chairs and clothing shelves to weapons and explosives, or create their own equipment to clean up the zombie horde and escape the entire Willamette mall.
The oldest game on the list and an original Xbox title, Demolish is a first-person action game that was praised for its choice of perspective to tell its story, something more common nowadays with the resurgence of sim immersive game design. Players control Derrick Cole, an amnesiac guy who, after discovering his new powers, must fight to leave the industrial laboratory that carried out inhumane experiments on him – and many others.