And for your kids, there’s Bluey: The Videogame and Maneater coming
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Microsoft are bringing Maneater back to Game Pass. Yesterday they unveiled the next batches of Game Pass additions and two are returnees, with the delightful fighty platformer Indivisible accompanying brutal shark ‘em up Maneater. What’s more important is that it’s adding the game with the cutest little Nurglings, grimdark retro-styled FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. The rhetoric of ‘purging xenos and heretics’ surely doesn’t apply tothese darling babies. Read on for all the games coming to (and going from) Game Pass over the next few weeks.
I haven’t played the retrofuturistic first-person explore-o-story which pokes at the fractured remains of a godlike AI, but I know Alice Beetalked about it on the podcastand has—for RPS supporters only, sorry—written aboutthat 60s style.
I know little about this but resident child-haver Graham hada lot of praisefor Bluey: The Cartoon Which Inspired The Video Game when it launched last year. “Do I have a reasonable expectation that any of this will make for a good video game when it releases on November 17th?” he wrote. “No, not really, but thank goodness I finally have an excuse to write about Bluey.”
It’s likeMadden NFL 23but a bit newer. Look, if you’re interested, you already know.
Coming fromill-fatedSkullgirlsdevelopers Lab Zero Games, Indivisible merges that fighting game heritage with platformers and action-RPGs for skillful violence with oodles of party members. OurIndivisible reviewsaid, “It won’t change your life, but it’s a pleasant romp, extremely pretty, and clearly made with a lot of love.”
Ten years after the sandbox space craft-o-building game entered early access (and four after its full launch), our readers declared ityour 22nd favourite space game. I have also enjoyedreading about scrappy creationsand thecataclysmic betrayalwhen Alice, Nate, and Matt played together.
Ooh nice for me! I’ve kept meaning to buy the retro-styled FPS, as a fan of both 40K and Rahul Kohli (who voices the protagonist, Spice Maureen) so yes thanks go on. OurWarhammer 40,000: Boltgun reviewlast year declared, “It’s a highly entertaining shooter that had me grinning from ear to ear on many an occasion, and is one of, if not the best representation of the Warhammer 40,000 universe available on your personal cogitation device.” Even better than the grimy guts of Darktide’s hive city? I’ll have to see about that.
Microsoft’s blog postalso announced two games will leave Game Pass on the 29th of February: Madden NFL 22 andSoul Hackers 2.
