The Game Awards kick off on December 8, and a large number of titles that come with Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass have been nominated for awards. Here are all the nominated games you can play with a Game Pass subscription.
All in all, it looks like it’s been a great year for Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass. In total, members can now play 16 nominated games with their subscription, including some of the best games on Game Pass. Starfield, which launches in Game Pass next year, has also been nominated in the Most Anticipated category.
As Dusk Falls (Nominated: Games for Impact, Innovation in Accessibility)
As Dusk Falls is an INTERIOR/NIGHT original interactive drama that explores the intertwined lives of two families over thirty years. Beginning in 1998 with a botched robbery in small-town Arizona, the choices you make profoundly impact the lives of the characters in this no-compromise tale of betrayal, sacrifice, and resilience. Stimulate the lives and relationships of multiple characters in a decades-spanning story told across two intense books.
Citizen Sleeper (Nominated: Games for Impact)
Role playing in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed up on a lawless station on the edge of an interstellar society. Inspired by the flexibility and freedom of TTRPGs, explore the station, choose your friends, escape your past and change your future.
Dune: Spice Wars (Nominated: Best Sim/Strategy)
Dune: Spice Wars (game preview)
This game is a work in progress. It may or may not change over time or be released as a final product. Only buy if you are comfortable with the current state of the unfinished game.
A real-time strategy game with 4X elements from the developers of the critically acclaimed Northgard. In Frank Herbert’s pioneering Dune universe, you must lead your faction and battle for control and dominance over the rugged desert planet of Arrakis.
Immortality (Nominated: Best Game Direction, Best Story, Best Performance – Manon Gage)
Marissa Marcel would have been a star. She made three movies, but none were ever released… and Marissa Marcel disappeared. Explore lost footage. Match carve your own path in the mystery. What happened to Marissa Marcel?
A Memoir Blue (Nominated: Games for Impact)
A song from years ago evokes a flood of memories for swimming champion Miriam. Embark on an evocative journey through her turbulent childhood and the complicated relationship she shared with her devoted mother.
Metal: Hellsinger (Nominated: Best Score and Music)
Death to the beat of metal and revenge on a hellish journey through the eight Hells. Let them fear the beat. Metal: Hellsinger is a rhythm FPS packed with demons, badass weapons and heavy metal music.
No Man’s Sky (Nominated: Best Community Support)
No Man’s Sky is a science fiction game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
Norco (Nominated: Best Debut Indie)
NORCO is a text-based point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Nominated: Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure, Best Performance – Charlotte McBurney)
Embark on a heartbreaking journey into an unforgiving, breathtaking world and discover what it takes to save the ones you love in a desperate fight for survival. Strike from the shadows or unleash hell with a variety of weapons, tools and otherworldly powers.
Return to Monkey Island (Nominated: Innovation in Accessibility)
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return from series creator Ron Gilbert, continuing the story of the legendary adventure games.
Scorn (Nominated: Best Art Direction)
Scorn is an atmospheric first-person horror adventure game set in a nightmarish universe of strange shapes and gloomy carpet.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Nominated: Best Action Game, Best Multiplayer)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge unites Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael as they shell-shovel in an awesome, beautifully realized side-scrolling beat ’em up that invokes the Turtles’ legendary 1987 design and pays homage to classic TMNT games like Turtles In Time.
Total War: Warhammer III (Nominated: Best Sim/Strategy)
The catastrophic conclusion to the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy is coming. Gather your strength and step into the Realm of Chaos, a dimension of mind-blowing horror where the fate of the world will be decided. Will you conquer your Daemons… or command them?
Tunic (Nominated: Best Indie, Best Action/Adventure, Best Debut Indie)
Explore a land of lost legends, ancient powers and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a little fox on a grand adventure.
Two Point Campus (Nominated: Best Sim/Strategy)
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the twisted sequel management sim from the creators of Two Point Hospital. Get to know your students, explore their personalities and fulfill their wants and needs. Create buildings, choose courses, hire the best staff and build an academic institution to stand the test of time.
Vampire Survivors (Nominated: Best Debut Indie)
Vampire Survivors is a time survival game with minimalistic gameplay and roguelite elements.
Starfield (Nominated: Most Anticipated Game)
You can tune in to The Game Awards on December 8 at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET / 12:30pm GMT. Fortunately, presenter Geoff Keighley revealed that this year’s awards ceremony will be “significantly shorter”. which hopefully means Keighley and crew have removed much of the filler. Have different game announcements also teased or confirmed for The Game Awardsincluding Tekken 8, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and more.
Have you played any of these nominated Game Pass games? What are your favorite games that launched on the service this year? Go down in those comments and let us know!
