Xbox has announced the first wave of titles heading to its Game Pass subscription service to start off the new year. Available starting today, January 7, is Road 96 on Cloud, Console, and PC. A returning title to Game Pass, it’s available to Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard subscribers. Road 96 takes players on a road trip in a story-driven adventure filled with choices that affect the outcome.
On January 8, four titles will be available: Lightyear Frontier, My Time at Sandrock, Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders, and Rolling Hills. All four titles join the Game Pass Standard lineup. Lightyear Frontier (Xbox Series X|S), is an Early Access open-world farming adventure where players create an interstellar homestead with alien crops and mechs. The trend of cozy farming games continues with My Time at Sandrock (Console), where players must gather resources to build machines, befriend locals, and help defend Sandrock from monsters.
Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders (Xbox Series X|S) also falls into the base-building genre mixed with open-world RPG elements. Players join Robin Hood and his band of outlaws in 12th-century England as they try to free Nottingham while building a secret hideout and helping the denizens of the surrounding lands. The final title for January 8, Rolling Hills (Console), is a life sim game where players run their own sushi restaurant as a robot chef in a cozy village.
Starting January 14, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will have access to EA Sports UFC 5 on Cloud and Xbox Series X|S via EA Play. Players will get unlimited access to the game and can obtain the Bruce Lee Bundle in the Perks section from January 14 to February 11. Also joining the Game Pass lineup for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers is the original Diablo (PC). It’s one of the best games ever created and arguably helped create the action RPG genre that we know today.
Xbox has also announced the following titles will be leaving the Game Pass library on January 15:
- Common’Hood (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Escape Academy (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Exoprimal (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Figment (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Insurgency Sandstorm (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Those Who Remain (Cloud, Console, and PC)
