Xbox Game Pass Getting More Titles In August

It’s the mid­dle of August and, as usu­al, Microsoft has announced more games com­ing to Xbox Game Pass through­out this month. Nine titles in total will be added, three of them being from EA Play, so they will require a Xbox Game Pass Ulti­mate sub­scrip­tion to play. Microsoft also list­ed out a bunch of games that had Xbox Touch con­trols added, as well as games that will be leav­ing the ser­vice at the end of the month.

Some of the games arriv­ing in this batch are day one titles through Game Pass, which will be list­ed out below, with every­thing else that’s new to Xbox Game Pass:

Xbox Game Pass Additions

Avail­able Today

• Humankind (PC) — Day One
• Need for Speed Heat (Cloud) EA Play
• Star Wars Bat­tle­front II (Cloud) EA Play
• Star War Jedi: Fall­en Order (Cloud) EA Play

August 19th

• Recom­pile (Cloud, con­sole [Xbox Series X|S only], PC) — Day One
• Train Sim World 2 (Cloud, con­sole, PC)
• Twelve Min­utes (Cloud, con­sole, PC) — Day One

August 25th

• Psy­cho­nauts 2 (Cloud, con­sole, PC) — Day One

August 26th

Myst (Cloud, con­sole, PC) — Day One

Xbox Touch Controls

• Hades
• Blood­roots
• Farm­ing Sim­u­la­tor 19
• Going Under
• Need for Speed Heat (EA Play)
• Peg­gle 2 (EA Play)
• Psy­cho­nauts
• Waste­land 2
• Waste­land 3
• Waste­land Remastered

Leaving August 31st

• Blair Witch (Cloud, con­sole, PC)
• Dou­ble Kick Heroes (Cloud, con­sole, PC)
• NBA 2K21 (Cloud, console)
• Stranger Things 3: The Game (Cloud, con­sole, PC)

Source: Xbox