Xbox Game Pass gets the best puzzle game of 2023

Twelve more games to come added to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service in May, joining the five games that joined the service earlier this month. Little Kitty, big citymeet the best puzzle game of 2023, Songs by Sennaar.

Songs by Sennaar, the award-winning language puzzle game, releases on May 16, but it’s far from the only major game launching that day. Microsoft will also add Immortals of Aveum (a magic-based first-person shooter) and access to cloud gaming for NHL 24.

Expect a day one release from Ninja Theory’s later this month Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, but you don’t want to miss it Immortals of Aveum or Songs by Sennaar or. As regards NHL 24console gamers got access in April, but it will now also be available via cloud gaming.

Here’s when all the games will be released in the second half of May and where you can play them.

  • Brothers: A Story of Two Sons (cloud, console and Windows PC) – May 14
  • Songs by Sennaar (cloud, console and Windows PC) – May 16
  • EA Sports NHL 24 (cloud) — May 16
  • Immortals of Aveum (cloud, Windows PC and Xbox Series X) – May 16
  • Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (cloud, Windows PC and Xbox Series X) – May 21
  • Galacticare (cloud, Windows PC and Xbox Series X) – May 23
  • Hauntii (cloud, console and Windows PC) – May 23
  • Moving 2 (cloud, console and Windows PC) – May 28
  • Humanity (cloud, console and Windows PC) – May 30
  • Lords of the fallen (cloud, Windows PC and Xbox Series X) – May 30
  • Fireworks (Windows PC) – June 4
  • Rolling hills (cloud, console and Windows PC) – June 4

Unfortunately, six games also have to leave the service. You have until May 31st to play the following games, one of which is Chicory: a colorful storynamed Polygon’s second best game of the year in 2021.

  • Chicory: a colorful story (cloud, console and Windows PC)
  • Pioneers of the distant world (cloud, console and Windows PC)
  • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (cloud, console and Windows PC)
  • Pac Man Museum Plus (cloud, console and Windows PC)
  • Little witch in the forest (cloud, console and Windows PC)
  • Railroad Empire II (cloud, console and Windows PC)

Xbox Game Pass costs $10.99 per month, while PC Game Pass costs $9.99 per month. PC Game Pass provides access to EA Play, which offers an additional 70 games on PC. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, for $16.99 per month, gives subscribers access to everything – the PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass libraries, EA Play on both console and PC – as well as access to online multiplayer. Xbox Game Pass Core (formerly called Xbox Live Gold) costs $9.99 per month or $59.99 per year.