Xbox Game Pass is expanding once again in January 2025, with a strong array of new games for the month, all hailing from a different genre. The first wave of new titles introduced hard-hitting sports experiences, life sims, and the OG Diablo, and the second wave of games contains even more goodies, including some fantastic, must-play indie hits.
That includes mystery puzzler The Case of the Golden Idol, and the highly-anticipated Citizen Sleeper sequel. As in most months, there are some departures on the way, but that’s how it goes on Xbox Game Pass. Games arrive, enjoy their time in the sun, and then depart with a brief wave.
Xbox Game Pass: New Games for January 2025
Here’s all the games launching on Xbox Games Pass in January 2025:
- Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders (Xbox Series X/S, PC, Cloud) – Available now: “Crash over and over until you master the mountain in the snowy follow up to Lonely Mountains: Downhill.”
- Flock (Console) – Available 22 January: “Flock is a multiplayer co-op game about the joy of flight and collecting adorable flying creatures with your friends.”
- Gigantic: Rampage Edition (PC, Console, Cloud) – Available 22 January: “Gigantic: Rampage Edition is a premium and definitive release of the original 5v5 MOBA hero shooter that provides a dynamic and exciting team-based multiplayer experience for fans of both genres.”
- Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Console) – Available 22 January: “A unique Japanese-inspired, single player Kagura action strategy game. It takes place on a mountain covered by defilement.”
- Magical Delicacy (Console) – Available 22 January: “A wholesome pixel art platformer. Cook magical delicacies from a vast collection of ingredients in your own shop.”
- Tchia (Xbox Series X/S) – Available 22 January: “Join Tchia on her tropical open-world adventure as she sets off to rescue her father from the cruel tyrant, Meavora, ruler of the archipelago.”
- The Case of the Golden Idol (Console) – Available 22 January: “Examine clues and use your powers of deduction to solve the twisted mystery of a family’s cursed inheritance and a series of grisly deaths in this point-and-click detective adventure game.”
- Starbound (Console, Cloud) – Available 22 January: “In Starbound … you may choose to save the universe from the forces that destroyed your home, uncovering greater galactic mysteries in the process, or you may wish to forego a heroic journey entirely in favour of colonising uncharted planets.”
- Eternal Strands (PC, Console, Cloud) – Available 22 January: “Fight epic, towering creatures while blending magical abilities with an arsenal of powerful weapons to keep the world from crumbling in this third-person, action-adventure game.”
- Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap (Xbox Series X/S, PC, Cloud) – Available 28 January: “Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap is an action-packed, third-person shooter and trap defence game.”
- Shady Part of Me (Console, PC, Cloud) – Available 29 January: “As a little girl and her shadow, overcome emotional struggles through surreal dreamscapes across a touching narrative filled with twists and surprises.”
- Sniper Elite: Resistance (Console, PC, Cloud) – Available 30 January: “Offering unparalleled sniping mechanics, stealth and tactical third-person combat, Sniper Elite: Resistance turns the attention of the award-winning series towards a hidden war, far from the front lines, deep within the heart of occupied France.”
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Xbox Series X/S, PC, Cloud) – Available 31 January: “Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is a dice-driven RPG in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world.”
- Far Cry New Dawn (Console, PC, Cloud) – Available 4 February: “Dive into a transformed, vibrant, post-apocalyptic Hope County, Montana, 17 years after a global nuclear catastrophe.”
Xbox Game Pass: Game Departures for January 2025
The following titles will leave Xbox Game Pass on 31 January:
- Anuchard
- Broforce Forever
- Darkest Dungeon
- Death’s Door
- Maquette
- Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem
As always, you’ll be able to purchase these games at a discount if you’re keen to keep playing them after they depart Xbox Game Pass.
You can check out the full range of Xbox Game Pass titles for January 2025 on Xbox Wire.
