Microsoft Reveals New Game Pass Titles for Late July

Microsoft has just revealed the second wave of games coming to the Game Pass library in July. There are a lot of indie games on the list, and the platform game Celeste is also coming back to Game Pass after previously leaving the service back in October 2021.

Techtonica, a first-person factory automation game will launch on Game Pass today via the Game Preview program. It will be available alongside the adventure games Toem and The Cave. You can check out the full list of games coming to the Game Pass library between July 19 and August 1 below:

• Techtonica (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available today (Game Preview)
• Toem (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available today
• The Cave (Cloud and Console) – Available today
• Maquette (Console and PC) – July 19
• Figment 2: Creed Valley (Cloud, Console, and PC) – July 20
• The Wandering Village (Cloud, Console, and PC) – July 20
• Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – July 25
• Venba (Console and PC) – July 31, available on day one with Game Pass
• Celeste (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 1

As you may remember, Celeste was previously offered to Xbox Live Gold members via Microsoft’s Games with Gold program in January 2019. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that Xbox Live Gold would become Xbox Game Pass Core in September. The main change is that the monthly Games with Gold are going away and they will be replaced by a selection of over 25 Game Pass games. However, all Xbox One Games with Gold titles that were previously claimed by Xbox Live Gold members will remain accessible with an active Xbox Game Pass Core subscription.

If Microsoft said yesterday that the Xbox Game Pass Core library will only receive new titles two or three times a year, Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass usually gain and lose games twice a month. Today, the Xbox team announced that Dreamscaper, Expeditions: Rome, Marvel’s Avengers, The Acente, and Two Point Campus will leave the Game Pass library on July 31.