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The best RPG of 2024 heads to Game Pass this month

Metaphor, Metroidvanias, and monster trains, oh my!

Metaphor, Metroidvanias, and monster trains, oh my!

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Ash Parrish
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Metaphor: ReFantazio — a game that combines innovative turn-based combat with a story timely for our current political moment — is coming to Xbox Game Pass later this month. In fact, the Game Pass lineup for the rest of May is actually pretty sweet.

Metaphor, Atlus’ best RPG since Persona 5, arrives on Game Pass on May 29th. Another fave, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, an afrofuturistic Metroidvania that deals with grief and loss and a heaping helping of African folklore, is also heading to Game Pass on May 22nd. I’m also really excited to see that To a T, the quirky and cute new game from Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, is launching day and date on Game Pass on May 28th.

Venturing outside the realm of RPGs, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 arrives on Game Pass on May 27th, and if you just gotta have something new to play today, there’s Monster Train 2, a deckbuilding roguelike from Devolver Digital, out right now. Check out the full list of late-May Game Pass additions, and there’s also a list of games coming to the Cloud Gaming Beta too, so maybe something will catch your interest.

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