Game Pass's most exciting new addition in March is a farming sim with mechs

Not many of those

Here’s all the games that will arrive on Game Pass in the first half of March:

I’ve played an hour or so of Boltgun and I had a good time being a heavy Space Marine lad and pulping sprite enemies in first-person with a chainsword and, well, a boltgun. Remedy’s Control is also obviously beloved, riffing as it does on creepy SCP Foundation ideas and pairing it with some visually spectacular combat.

It’s Lightyear Frontier that I’m most interested in. It’s a peaceful, open world farming game, like a blend betweenSatisfactoryandStardew Valley, except you’ve got a mech with which to carry out your farmyard chores, and you can buddy up with three friends in co-op. Its arrival on Game Pass will be a day one thing, albeit only as a “game preview” - aka early access - release.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker, meanwhile, is the best of the leavers. It’s a fabulous, physicsy simulation about dismantling space derelicts with a laser cutter, and well worth playing if you’ve got time over the next ten days.