Xbox games with gold announced for January 2021

The first batch of Xbox games with Gold from 2021 includes Little Nightmares

, the remastered version of Dead Rising, King of Fighters XIII and Breakdown. As detailed on Xbox Wire, this is where Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to download free games for January:

  • Little nightmares – 1 to 31 January
  • Dead Rising – January 16th to February 15th
  • King of Fighters XIII – January 1-15
  • Discrimination – January 16-31

IGN’s Little Nightmares review called him “happily strange, incessantly gloomy and quietly intelligent”. A sequel will arrive on the Xbox Series X | S and Xbox One on February 11, 2021.

The Dead Rising remaster provides visual and performance improvements to the 2006 original, bringing the resolution and frame rate to 1080p and 60fps, respectively. As for the game itself, IGN’s Dead Rising review gave it an 8.3.

King of Fighters XIII and Breakdown will both be available for backward compatibility on Xbox. King of Fighters XIII is an arcade fighter from the Xbox 360 era, while Breakdown is a first-person sci-fi action game released exclusively for the original Xbox. Check out IGN’s King of Fighters XIII review and Breakdown review for more information.

Subscribers still have time to download some of the December Gold Games as well.

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Jordan is a freelance writer for IGN.

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