PC Game Pass price, games list and all you need to know

(Pocket-lint) – Xbox Game Pass has been massively successful since its launch several years ago. Offering 100s of Xbox games to download and play on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S for one monthly fee, it’s a no-brainer for most console owners. Thankfully, PC gamers also have their own version – the newly renamed PC Game Pass.

And, if you own a PC as well as an Xbox, you can get both, along with Cloud Gaming and other benefits, for a single monthly payment too. Here then is everything you need to know about PC Game Pass.

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What is PC Game Pass?

PC Game Pass is a monthly subscription service that offers a library of full games to download and play on your machine without any further fees. The list of games is curated and updated each month, with some added and some less popular titles being removed.

You just need to download the ones on offer and play as much as you like – as if you bought the game outright yourself. The PC version of the service is exclusive to gamers running Windows 10 or Windows 11. It is also available as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which includes over 300 Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and original Xbox games.

You also get access to Xbox’s Cloud Gaming service to stream games on mobile devices, PC and Xbox consoles, EA Play and Xbox Live Gold.

How much does PC Game Pass cost?

In the UK, PC Game Pass costs GBP7.99 per month. It is £9.99 per month in the US. New subscribers can get the first three months for just GBP1 / £1.

If you also own an Xbox console or want to play cloud games on your mobile device, you might find that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is a much better deal. It costs GBP10.99 per month in the UK, £14.99 per month in the US.

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Minimum specs for PC Game Pass

As you’d expect from playing such a wide range of games there are some minimum spec requirements to ensure things run smoothly. Microsoft recommends your machine meets these specs:

OS: Windows 10/11, version 22H1 or higher
Processor: Intel Core i5; AMD Ryzen 5.

Quad-core or higher.
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050; AMD Radeon RX 560
Memory: 8GB RAM, 3GB VRAM
Storage: 150GB
DirectX: DirectX 12 API
Monitor: 1080p

What games are available as part of PC Game Pass?

There will always be over 300 games available for the PC gaming community. The list includes all new Xbox Studios titles on the day of their release. Some of them also appear in our best PC games to buy round-up, showing just how good a deal Game Pass is.

Current PC Games Pass list (as of 10/05/2021):

7 Days to Die
A Memoir Blue
A Plague Tale: Innocence
A Way Out **
AI: The Somnium Files
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Alice: Madness Returns
Alien: Isolation
Alien Fireteam Elite
Among Us
Anthem **
Anvil: Vault Breaker
Aragami 2
Archvale
Ark: Survival Evolved
Army of Two
Art of Rally
Astria Ascending
Astroneer
Atomic Crops
Back 4 Blood
Backbone
Banjo Kazooie: NnB
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Bassmaster Fishing 2022
Batman: Arkham Knight
Battlefield 1943
Battlefield 1
Battlefield 3 **
Battlefield 4 **
Battlefield Hardline **
Battlefield V **
Battletoads
Before We Leave
Bejeweled 2
Bejeweled 3
Ben 10: Power Trip
Besiege Console
Black Desert
Black
Bleeding Edge
Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Bloodroots
Boyfriend Dungeon
Breathedge
Bridge Constructor Portal
Broken Age
Brutal Legend
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
Bugsnax
Burnout Paradise Remastered **
Carrion
Children of Morta
Chinatown Detective Agency
Cities: Skylines
Citizen Sleeper
Clustertruck
Code Vein
Command & Conquer Remastered Collection **
Conan Exiles
Contrast
Control

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Costume Quest 2
Crackdown 3
Craftopia
Cricket 22
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Cris Tales
CrossfireX: Operation Catalyst
Crown Trick
Crusader Kings III
Crysis **
Crysis 2 **
Crysis 3 **
Curse of the Dead Gods
Dandy Ace
Dragaronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Dragaronpa Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition
Dante’s Inferno
Dark Alliance
Darkest Dungeon
Day of Tentacle Remastered
DayZ
Dead by Daylight
Dead Cells
Dead Space **
Dead Space 2 **
Dead Space 3 **
Dead Space Ignition ***
Death’s Door
Deeeeer Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game
Deep Rock Galactic
Descenders
Destroy All Humans!
Dicey Dungeons
Dirt 4
Dirt 5
Dirt Rally
Dirt Rally 2.0
Dishonored Definitive Edition
Dishonored 2
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Disneyland Adventures
Dodgeball Academia
Donut County
Doom (1993)
Doom 3
Doom 64
Doom Eternal
Doom II (Classic)
Double Dragon Neon
Dragon Age II **
Dragon Age: Inquisition **
Dragon Age: Origins **
Dragon Ball Fighterz
Dragon Quest Builders
Dragon Quest XV S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition
Dreamscaper
EA Sports FIFA 20
Dungeon Keeper **
Dungeon Keeper 2 **
EA Sports Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour
EA Sports UFC 3
Echo Generation
Edge of Eternity
Elite Dangerous Standard Editiuon
Embr
Empire of Sin
Enter the Gungeon
Evil Genius 2: World Domination
Exo One
F1 2020
F1 2021
Fable Anniversary
Fable II
Fable III
Fae Tactics
Fallout 3
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Fallout Tactics
Fallout: New Vegas
FAR: Changing Tides
Farming Simulator 19
Fe **
Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy 2
FIFA 21 **
Fight Night champion **
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Firewatch
Flynn: Son of Crimson
For Honor Standard Edition
Football Manager 2022
Forager
Forza Horizon 4
Forza Horizon 5
Frostpunk
Full Throttle Remastered
Fuzion Frenzy
Gang Beasts
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
Gears of War 2
Gears of War 3
Gears of War 4

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Gears of War Judgment
Gears 5
Gears Tactics
Generation Zero
Genesis Noir
Goat Simulator
Going Under
Golf With Your Friends
Gorogoa
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Greedfall
Grid
Grim Fandango
Grounded – Game Preview
Hades
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Halo 2: Anniversary
Halo 3
Halo 3: ODST
Halo 4

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Halo Infinite
Halo: Reach
Halo: Spartan Assault
Halo: Spartan Strike
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
Halo Wars 2
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Hitman Triology
Hollow Knight
Human Fall Flat
I am Fish
Immortal Realms: Vampire Wars
Infernax
Injustice 2
Into the Pit
Iron Harvest
It Takes Two **
Jetpac Refuelled
Joy Ride Turbo
Jurassic World Evolution
Just Cause 4: Reloaded
Kameo
Katamari Damacy Reroll
Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
Kill It With Fire
Killer Instinct: Definitive Edition
Knockout City **
Kraken Academy
Lake
Last Stop
Lawn Mowing Simulator
Lemnis Gate
Lethal League Blaze
Library of Ruina
Life is Strange True Colors
Lighting Returns FFXIII
Limbo
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Loot River
Lost in Random **
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Lumines Remastered
Madden NFL 21 **
Madden NFL 22 **
Maneater
Marvel’s Avengers
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Mass Effect **
Mass Effect 2 **
Mass Effect 3 **
Mass Effect Legendary Edition **
Mass Effect: Andromeda **
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Medal of Honor: Airborne **

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Microsoft Flight Simulator
Middle-earth: Shadow of War
Mighty Goose
Mind Scanners
Minecraft
Minecraft Dungeons
Mirror’s Edge **
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst **
MLB The Show 22
Monster Sanctuary
Monster Train
Moonglow Bay
Moonlighter
Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Shell: Enhanced Edition
MotoGP 20
My Friend Pedro
My Time at Portia
Myst
NBA 2K2
NBA Live 19
Need for Speed **
Need for Speed Heat **
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered **
Need for Speed Most Wanted **
Need for Speed Payback **
Need for Speed Rivals **
Neon Abyss
Neoverse
New Super Lucky’s Tale
Next Space Rebels
NHL 20 **
NHL 21 **
NHL 94 Rewind **
No Man’s Sky
Nobody Saves the World
Nongunz: Doppelganger Edition
Nuclear Throne
Oblivion
Octopath Traveler
Olija
Omno
One Piece Pirate Warriors 4
One Step from Eden
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Outer Wilds
Outriders
Overcooked!

2
Paradise Killer
Paw Partrol Might pups save adventure bay
PayDay 2 Crimewave Edition
Peggle **
Peggle 2 **
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Phoenix Point
Pikuniku
Pillars of Eternity: Hero Edition
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare **
Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville **
Plants vs Zombies: Game of the Year Edition **
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 **
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
Prey
Project Wingman
Psychonauts
Psychonauts 2
Pupperazzi
Quake
Quantum Break
Rage
Rage 2
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Record of Lodoss War
ReCore
Remnant: From the Ashes
Research and Destroy
Resident Evil 7 biohazard
Ring of Pain
Rocket Arena **
Rubber Bandits
Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure
Ryse: Legendary Edition
Sable
Scarlet Nexus
Scream Ride
Sea of Solitude **
Sea of Thieves
Second Extinction
Secret Neighbor
Serious Sam 4
Shredders
Signs of the Sojourner
Skate 3 ***
Skate. ***
Skatebird
Skul: They Hero Slayer
SimCity 2000: Special Edition **
SimCity 4 **
SimCity: Complete Edition **
SkateBird
Slay The Spire
Sniper Elite 4
Slime Rancher
SnowRunner
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Spelunky 2
Spiritfarer
SSX **
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order **
Star Wars Battlefront **
Star Wars Battlefront II **
Star Wars: Squadrons **
Stardew Valley
State of Decay Year One
State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
Steep
Stellaris
Subnautica
Subnautica: Below Zero
Sunset Overdrive
Super Lucky’s Tale
Super Mega Baseball 3
Superhot: Mind Control Delete
Superliminal
Supraland
Surgeon Simulator 2
Taiko No Tansujin
Tainted Grail: Conquest
Tell Me Why: Chapters 1 – 3
Telling lies
Terraria
Tetris Effect: Connected
The Anacrucsis
The Artful Escape
The Ascent
The Bard’s Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resparkled
The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut
The Bard’s Tale Trilogy
The Catch: Carp & Coarse Fishing
The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
The Evil Within
The Evil Within 2
The Forgotten City
The Good Life
The Gunk
The Last Kids on Earth and the Staff of Doom
The Long Dark
The Outer Worlds
The Pedestrian
The Procession to Calvary
The Riftbreaker
The Sims 4 **
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
The Walking Dead: Michonne Ep.2
The Walking Dead: Michonne Ep.3
The Walking Dead: Michonne The Complete Season
The Walking Dead Season 2
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season
The Wild at Heart
The Yakuza Remastered Collection
TheHunter: Call of the Wild
This War of Mine
Titanfall 2 **
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction
Totally Accurate Battlesimulator
Totally Reliable Delivery Simulator
Townscaper
Trailmakers
Train Sim World 2
Transformers Battleground
Trek to Yomi
Tropico 6
Tunic

Sega
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Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Twelve Minutes
Two Point Hospital
UFC 4 **
Undertale
Undungeon
Unpacking
Unravel **
Unravel Two **
Unsighted
Unsouled
Visage
Viva Pinata
Viva Pinata TIP
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector
Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut
Wasteland 3
Wasteland Remastered
We Happy Few
Weird West
What Remains of Edith Finch
Windjammers
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein II: The New Collosus
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
World War Z
Worms Rumble
Worms W.M.D
Wreckfest
Xeno Crisis
Yakua 3 Remastered
Yakua 4 Remastered
Yakua 5 Remastered
Yakua 6: The Song of Life
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yes, Your Grace
Young Souls
Zero Escape The Nonary Games
Zombie Army 4: Dead War
Zoo Tycoon: Ultimate Animal Collection
Zuma **
Zuma’s Revenge **

** available with EA Play membership as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. PC Gaming Week (9 – 13 May) in association with Nvidia GeForce RTX
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