Ubisoft Plus subscription available on Xbox, costs more than Game Pass

Ubisoft Plus, the publisher’s monthly subscription that offers its back catalog on an unlimited food basis, is now available on Xbox consoles, Microsoft announced this on Thursday. A membership costs $17.99 per month.

Xbox access is covered by the sub’s top-level Multi Access subscription, which includes access to the Ubisoft catalog on Amazon Luna and on Windows PC via the Ubisoft Connect platform. Players who have already subscribed to the Multi Access level and want to play Ubisoft games on an Xbox One or Xbox Series X simply need to link their Xbox Live account to Ubisoft Plus.

An accompanying press release from Ubisoft on Thursday said Ubisoft Plus would support Multi Access cross-platform progression and game saves “for a select number of titles,” which were not specified. Xbox Wire has the full list of games in the Ubisoft Plus library.

Ubisoft’s statement also said that subscribers would have “access to premium editions of upcoming releases,” though it wasn’t clear if they involved launches of all-new titles on the same day.

Ubisoft Plus launched in September 2019. It is available for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 players, but only through the new PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscription levels.

The service is somewhat similar to the nine-year EA Play subscription, which is available to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, the highest level of that console membership. Like EA Play, Ubisoft Plus offers subscribers a 10% discount on in-game purchases.