Other major titles leaving the service include Square Enix’s Scarlet Nexus, where you master psychokinetic powers to battle in expert hack-and-slack segments to unlock the mysteries of a Brain Punk future. Outer Wilds was given a Xbox Series S/X upgrade in July via Game Pass - enabling 60fps - and will soon be leaving the platform. Not to be confused with the space-set RPG The Outer Worlds - also available on Game Pass - here you’re tasked with exploring the secrets of an extinct race and solving the overarching mystery. Every 22 minutes, the solar system’s star goes supernova, thereby resetting the planets and particles back to their original state. Given it’s in the Xbox app, this is basically official.Īs one of the best titles to be leaving Game Pass, Outer Wilds features a bizarre premise where you play an unnamed space explorer stuck in a time loop.

Scrolling down to the ‘Leaving Soon’ section on the Xbox app, however, reveals that there are nine games on track to leave the service on January 1, 2023. Microsoft’s subscription service, which is known to shuffle its library of games every month, did not mention these titles’ removal in its latest Xbox blog.

Outer Wilds, the acclaimed time loop adventure from Mobius Digital, is among nine titles leaving Xbox Game Pass at the turn of the new year.

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