Xbox Game Pass February games confirmed, including Resident Evil 3

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Microsoft has confirmed the games coming to Xbox Game Pass during February 2024, and there’s a very significant addition this month – Resident Evil 3.

Eight games are coming to (or have arrived on) Game Pass in February 2024. Here’s the full list:

• Anuchard (available now)
• Train Sim World 4 (available now)
• Madden NFL 24 (available now)
• Resident Evil 3 (February 13)
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (February 14)
• A Little to The Left (February 15)
• PlateUp! (February 15)
• Return to Grace (February 20)

All titles are available for PC, console and cloud streaming aside from Madden NFL 24, which loses cloud streaming because it is part of EA Play rather than Game Pass itself.

As is another little DLC addition, The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure. This pack for The Sims 4 includes a Selvadorada location, and lets you build a house that looks a bit like an ancient temple. It’s here to celebrate the game’s 24th anniversary. Feel old yet?

Games leaving the service this month include Galactic Civilizations III (PC only) and Opus: Echo of Starsong, both set to leave on February 15.

Xbox Game Pass February games

Resident Evil 3 is the most eye-catching game of the month, a lavish remake of the 1999 original some 21 years later, it was released in 2020.

The game was less loved than its predecessor, the Resident Evil 2 remake, but should only take six hours or so to play. In the original, you were stalked by a monster, the nemesis of the title. Reviewers said the presence of this baddie was too stripped back in the remake, reduced to set-pieces. But perhaps that’s no bad thing for those who don’t want a sense of constant fear. Read our review.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is the best-reviewed of this month’s games, with an 83% rating on Metacritic. It’s a side-scrolling platform game heavily inspired by the Castlevania series.

There’s a somewhat retro look here, but the game was only released in 2019.

The game we’ll be digging into first, though, is Return to Grace. This short three-hour adventure is played in first-person. You are “space archaeologist” Adie Ito, who wanders around a historical site where an AI entity was once worshipped as a god.

It’s coming to Game Pass on day one of its Xbox release, February 20. And we expect this will see it get a big influx of interest. Return to Grace only has 41 user reviews on Steam, suggesting its initial PC version didn’t make much of a splash despite receiving some positive write-ups.

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