Microsoft has confirmed Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass May 2025 lineup.
In a publish on (*1*), Microsoft revealed 12 video games hitting its subscription service, taking us as much as May 20. The largest hitter right here is Doom: The Darkish Ages, the most recent sport in id Software program’s world-famous first-person shooter collection. That’s, as a Microsoft-owned sport, a day-one Game Pass launch. But it surely’s not the one day-one Game Pass launch of May 2025.
Obtainable immediately, May 6, is Dredge (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S), which hits Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Normal. Right here’s the official blurb, from Microsoft:
Dredge is a single-player fishing journey with a sinister undercurrent. Promote your catch, improve your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets and techniques. Discover a mysterious archipelago and uncover why some issues are finest left forgotten.
May 7 is an enormous day for Game Pass, with various additions: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) on Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Normal; Dungeons of Hinterberg (Console), now on Game Pass Normal; Flintlock: The Siege of Daybreak (Xbox Sequence X|S), now on Game Pass Normal; and Metallic Slug Techniques (Console), additionally now on Game Pass Normal.
Right here’s an enormous one: May 8 sees Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) hit Game Pass Final and PC Game Pass as a day-one title.
In a future knocked off its axis by company greed and stupidity, you’ve been made redundant and deserted on the far fringe of area with little gear and no security internet. It’s essential to discover each nook and cranny, acquire dozens of upgrades, and switch over each mysterious alien rock if you wish to get revenge in your former employer and return to Earth.
Additionally on May 8, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (Cloud, Console, and PC) joins Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Normal.
Be part of the legendary Turtle brothers straight from the sewer and slide into this new journey of shell-shocking proportions. With the assistance of April’s insightful stories from the streets and Splinter’s sage steering, gear as much as battle crime and unravel an epic saga of justice and chaos!
Shifting on to May 13, we’ve acquired Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (Cloud and Console) on Game Pass Final and Game Pass Normal.
Making a return to the Game Pass library! Struggle along with your folks in opposition to the forces of Chaos and Skaven on this epic 4-player co-op sport set within the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world. Vermintide 2 expands the extraordinary first-person fight with a brand-new enemy faction, 15 new profession paths, expertise bushes, new weapons, an improved loot system, and extra.
The primary occasion is after all Doom: The Darkish Ages (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S), on May 15 when the shooter hits Game Pass Final and PC Game Pass day-one.
Doom: The Darkish Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed Doom (2016) and Doom Everlasting that tells an epic cinematic story worthy of the Doom Slayer’s legend. On this third installment of the fashionable Doom collection, gamers will step into the blood-stained boots of the Doom Slayer, on this never-before-seen darkish and sinister medieval struggle in opposition to Hell. Get a head begin on slaying demons with the Premium Improve, together with as much as 2-Day Early Entry, the marketing campaign DLC at launch, and extra.
A day later, on May 16, Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC) launches on Game Pass Final and PC Game Pass as one more day-one title.
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo is a papercraft journey sport the place you’ll meet the various good and not-so-good people of Limbo, a spot the place souls with deep regrets are cursed into repeating the identical day on a loop.
Rounding out the May 2025 Wave 1 lineup on May 20 are Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Cloud, Console, and PC) throughout Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Normal, and Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, and PC) additionally throughout Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Normal.
Xbox Game Pass May 2025 Wave 1 lineup:
- Dredge (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) – May 6
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Normal - Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 7
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Normal - Dungeons of Hinterberg (Console) – May 7
Now with Game Pass Normal - Flintlock: The Siege of Daybreak (Xbox Sequence X|S) – May 7
Now with Game Pass Normal - Metallic Slug Techniques (Console) – May 7
Now with Game Pass Normal - Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) – May 8
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 8
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Normal - Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (Cloud and Console) – May 13
Game Pass Final, Game Pass Normal - Doom: The Darkish Ages (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S) – May 15
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 16
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass - Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Normal - Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20
Game Pass Final, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Normal
Leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 15:
The next video games are leaving the Game Pass library on May 15. As all the time, you should use your membership low cost to save lots of as much as 20% to maintain them in your library.
- Brothers A Story of Two Sons (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Chants of Sennaar (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Dune: Spice Wars (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Hauntii (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- The Large Con (Cloud, Console, and PC)
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