Game Pass has reportedly given Star Wars Outlaws’ participant numbers a serious increase because it was added on January 13, introducing practically 600,000 new gamers to the sport. Whereas Ubisoft’s Star Wars recreation has suffered from sluggish gross sales because it launched in 2024, it has proved the most well-liked of January’s main Game Pass additions.
In keeping with statistics cited by Alinea Analytics, Star Wars Outlaws was checked out by round 100,000 Game Pass subscribers on the day it was added to the service. Round 595,000 complete new gamers have accessed the sport by means of Game Pass because it launched there, narrowly beating out Warhammer 40,000: House Marine II to be the most well-liked of January’s new video games.
Whereas Outlaws was largely well-received by critics, the sport suffered from some technical and mechanical points at launch, and has not bought in addition to Ubisoft expected–something that the studio has blamed on a normal decline in sentiment in the direction of the Star Wars model.
The Game Pass deal appears deliberate to revitalize the sport at a time the place gross sales have largely dropped off (even following some fairly steep retail reductions earlier this yr), and up to now the tactic seems to be working. Alinea studies that Game Pass has successfully doubled the sport’s attain on Xbox, with the variety of gamers accessing the sport equal to its lifetime gross sales on that platform.
Star Wars Outlaws has had two DLCs since launch, extending the adventures of protagonist Kay Vess. The sport has additionally shipped quite a few fixes within the yr and a half since launch, patching up the varied points it was criticized for at launch.