Microsoft has been pushing its Xbox Game Pass service for a while now and, frankly, it's doing a good job selling it. The subscription service offers a massive library of games to its users and, while some titles have been removed, there are always new additions to fill the void. Microsoft has even partnered with EA to add the EA Play service to it and, as of today, EA Play on Game Pass is available to PC users too after a slight delay.
Speaking of EA games, today also brings Star Wars: Squadrons to the service for both Xbox consoles and PC. The first game to be solely developed by EA's Motive Studios (which so far had only assisted with development on Star Wars Battlefront 2), it puts players in control of both the New Republic and the Galactic Empire and take part in space dogfights. Featuring both multiplayer and an option to experience flying a ship in VR, it joins Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order as another solid Star Wars game from EA.
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It's not just EA games that are now available on PC, though. Today also adds two games to Game Pass on PC that are already part of the Game Pass line-up on consoles. The first is Nier: Automata, the widely acclaimed and award-winning action-RPG from Square Enix and PlatinumGames. It's easily one of the most unique games in the genre, taking full advantage of the medium to tell a story about an army of human-like androids fighting against machines in a post-apocalyptic world. It's also worth checking out to prepare for the upcoming remaster of the original Nier, which is releasing this April for Xbox One, PC, and PlayStation 4.
The second is Torchlight 3, a dungeon crawler action-RPG made by people that worked on Diablo 2. While it's rather mindless and at times feels like an empty free-to-play MMO (which makes sense as that's what it initially started as), it's a fun time regardless and might be worth checking out for existing Game Pass subscribers.
Another entirely new addition is the XCOM-like strategy game Empire of Sin. Trading a futuristic aesthetic and aliens for a 1920s Chicago setting and gangsters, it comes from the husband and wife team of John and Brenda Romero, the former being famous for co-founding id Software and working on the Doom series. It was praised for its good ideas and writing, but some critics found the gameplay to be its weakest part.
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