The Walking Dead: Michonne – Episode 1 – 3.

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier – Episode 1 through 5.

The Lord of the Rings: Adventure Card Game.

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics.

The Bard’s Tale Remastered and Resnarkled.

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.

Mortal Kombat X (Not available in Korea).

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep & Forsaken expansion (September 22).

Here’s the full list of xCloud games available at launch with your Xbox Game Pass subscription: Unlike Sony, Microsoft is better positioned to make use of the cloud, whereas Sony still has a huge investment in first-party exclusives tied to a specific piece of hardware.

It’s an interesting approach and one that I think will pay off in the long run. While Sony and Nintendo are sticking very firmly to a hardware-driven experience, Microsoft is slowly transforming Xbox into a software-driven business. Indeed, the combination of Xbox Game Pass and xCloud is the first step toward no longer needing an Xbox console at all.

Download salt and sacrifice xbox