Xbox Game Pass is about to get one of the best games of 2022

The official key art showcases Nocro's luxurious watercolor box art. — Image: raw fury

Just because spooky season is over doesn’t mean Microsoft’s Netflix-like subscription service is freshly out of stock to stimulate your gaming senses for the rest of November. While the variety of November games isn’t as loaded like last month’s rationsfeatures a diverse hodgepodge of games, including one of the best-written titles to come out of 2022.

Here’s everything coming and leaving Xbox Game Pass in the coming weeks:

November 15

penance (Cloud, Console and PC)
Somerville (Cloud, Console and PC)
vampire survivors (Cloud)

November 17

Dune: Spice Wars (Game Preview) (PC)
Ghost (Game Preview) (PC)
lapin (Cloud, Console and PC)
norco (Cloud and Console)

November 22th

gungrave gore (Cloud, Console and PC)

November 29th

Insurgency: Sandstorm (Cloud and Console)
football history (Cloud, Console and PC)

November 30

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Tide (PERSONAL COMPUTER)

The creme de la creme of this month’s Game Pass assortment isn’t the spicy concoction of Dune real-time strategy game, but rather a little-known text-based point-and-click adventure game called norco. You play as Kay, a 20-year-old woman who returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death from cancer. When you’re not completing your mother’s half-finished tasks with the help of a sentient robot named Million, you’re searching the industrial underbelly of New Orleans for your brother Blake, who disappeared shortly after your mother’s death. In our review of norco, Kotaku he said the game is “a stunning piece of magical realism” with exceptional dialogue that “plays its cards with enormous subtlety”.

If you missed playing this gem when it was a Game Pass for PC offer back in March, now is your chance to give this elysium disco-esque game a try. fair warning, norco contains instances of violence, suicide, substance use, and mature language.

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If you’re in the upper echelon of Game Pass Ultimate tier and you feel a tingle down your spine from the fact that “LeBron James Frame Facts” is a phrase you can say now that it makes sense, you get the added bonus of a Multi Versus MVP pack drop this month. Obviously, to take advantage of the variant, ring-out and banner benefits of this package, you need to have the Multi Versus installed on your game device. And all Game Pass subscribers will get a host of DLC updates for The Elder Scrolls Online: Song of Fire (available today), The Elder Scrolls Online: Celebration of the Dark Heart of Skyrim (available November 17), and Dead by Daylight: Forged in the Mist (available November 22).

Game Pass, much like the saying “out with the old in with the new”, is losing some games to make way for the new fad. The following games will return to the Xbox Vault starting November 30: