{"id":47197,"date":"2026-04-25T03:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47197"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:38:12","slug":"best-new-xbox-game-pass-games-to-play-this-weekend-april-24-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=47197","title":{"rendered":"Best new Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend (April 24-26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<aside class=\"w-heading-options\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p>\n    <span>Link copied to clipboard<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"article-header-data\">\n<div class=\"w-article-header-author-img\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-header-author-img\">\n<p>                                            <img src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fauthors%2F67f3d8a4379e6-Profile%20Pic%202.jpg?fit=crop&amp;w=90&amp;h=90\" alt=\"4\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p>\n                                                                        <time datetime=\"2026-04-24T19:30:18Z\"><span class=\"is-mobile-hidden\">Published<\/span> Apr 24, 2026, 3:30\u202fPM EDT<\/time>\n                                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spring is blooming with some great games on Xbox Game Pass<\/p>\n<div class=\"heading_image responsive-img img-size-heading-image-full-width   expandable \" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;Image: Double Fine Productions\\\/Xbox Game Studios&quot;\" data-is-feature-img=\"true\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=600&amp;h=338&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=600&amp;h=338&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg?q=70&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900&amp;dpr=1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Sentient pots pose together in Kiln.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.polygonimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kiln-pottery-squad.jpg?&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=1600&amp;h=900\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"item-img-caption\">Image: Double Fine Productions\/Xbox Game Studios<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"content-block-regular\">\n<p>The last week has been an interesting one for Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft lowered the price of the subscription service, but also announced future Call of Duty titles won&#8217;t be day-and-date releases on Game Pass. And now rumors of an \u00e0 la carte version of Game Pass (or one that&#8217;s bundled with Discord Nitro) are floating around.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>Amid all of that, several new games dropped on Xbox Game Pass, like <em>Hades 2<\/em> and <em>Tiny Bookshop<\/em>. They join more than 900 titles on the service, with more must-play games dropping each month. Here are three great games that are new to Xbox Game Pass in April.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"vampire-crawlers\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">1 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Vampire Crawlers<br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<p>Developer Poncle has once again created a game poised to consume your life. <em>Vampire Crawlers<\/em> is a spinoff from the developer&#8217;s smash-hit <em>Vampire Survivors<\/em>. It&#8217;s a roguelike deck-builder where you explore a very old-school dungeon from a first-person perspective. You&#8217;ll gradually grow stronger, building up a deck that&#8217;s capable of defeating each level&#8217;s boss with &#8220;world-ending combos,&#8221; according to Poncle. We&#8217;re very high on <em>Vampire Crawlers<\/em>, with reviewer Giovanni Colantonio writing, &#8220;Poncle has once again created a game that takes the visual language of classic games and naturally fuses it with fresh design ideas.&#8221; He&#8217;s not alone in enjoying it as <em>Vampire Crawlers<\/em> has a 93% Critics Recommend score on OpenCritic.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"\">\n<\/h3>\n<p><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"kiln\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">2 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Kiln<br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<p><em>Kiln<\/em> is the latest from Double Fine, the studio behind last year&#8217;s <em>Keeper<\/em> and 2021&#8217;s <em>Psychonauts 2<\/em>. It&#8217;s a multiplayer party brawler where you create a pot and send it out in battle. Your little pot fighter&#8217;s stats and playstyle are determined by how you create it, like how smaller pots will be speedier in the fray while larger ones will be able to tank more damage. &#8220;[Kiln] is the most fun when it is a pottery power fantasy [&#8230;] This is a way to do whatever you want and make whatever you want, and the game enables you to do that,&#8221; project lead Derek Brand told Polygon. <em>Kiln<\/em> doesn&#8217;t have a ton of reviews from critics yet, but the players who are spending time with it are enjoying it as it holds a &#8220;Mostly Positive&#8221; rating on Steam at the time of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"replaced\">\n            <span class=\"item-num\">3 <\/span><br \/>\n        <span><br \/>\n                            Replaced<br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n       <\/h2>\n<p><em>Replaced<\/em> launched this month after nearly a decade in development and numerous delays, some caused by the Russo-Ukrainian war affecting Sad Cat Studios as it had to move away from its Belarus-based office to being remote-first. Now that it&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s landed with critics and players; <em>Replaced<\/em> has an 80% Critics Recommend score on OpenCritic and a &#8220;Very Positive&#8221; rating on Steam at this time. It&#8217;s a timely game about an AI trapped in a human body who&#8217;s on the run while trying to expose the secrets of a shady corporation. <em>Replaced<\/em> is a 2.5D platformer that balances exploration and combat.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/best-new-xbox-game-pass-april-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link copied to clipboard Published Apr 24, 2026, 3:30\u202fPM EDT Spring is blooming with some great games on Xbox Game Pass Image: Double Fine Productions\/Xbox&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5214,258,321,1541,2651,1666,162],"class_list":["post-47197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-april","tag-game","tag-games","tag-pass","tag-play","tag-weekend","tag-xbox","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}