Game Pass Is Shaping Up For Another Low-Key Killer Month

It’s bookended by Return to Monkey Island, a nostalgic but confident return to the classic point-and-click adventure series, and two of the games I’m most excited about for the rest of the year. The first, Pentiment, is an open-ended adventure game with a medieval art-style about trying to solve a friend’s murder. The second, Somerville, is helmed by a co-founder of the studio behind Inside, one of the most beautiful, haunting, and evocative games of the last decade. Unlike that game, it’s not a cinematic puzzle platformer. Director Chris Olsen has previously said the gameplay is harder to pin down than that. What we do know is that it’s about a father trying to reunite with his family during an apocalyptical alien invasion and the presentation is moody and foreboding as hell.

As always, some games are also leaving the service this month. Here’s everything disappearing from Game Pass by November 15:

• Football Manager 2022 (PC)
• Football Manager 2022 Xbox Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Art of Rally (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Fae Tactics (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Next Space Rebel (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• One Step from Eden (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Supraland (Cloud, Console, and PC)

Plenty of decent games, especially Art of Rally, but nothing major getting shifted out of the rotation so far this month. If you want a wild modern take on Mega Man Battle Network that combines deckbuilding with roguelike mechanics, definitely give One Step from Eden a try. It’s a perfect candidate for streaming to your phone.