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New Games with Gold for July 2022 - Xbox Wire

It’s time to announce the July Games with Gold lineup! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, capture photos of the wondrous Beasts of Maravilla Island, and survive being stranded on a desolate moon base in Relicta. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, build and ride...

news.xbox.com

It’s time to announce the July Games with Gold lineup! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, capture photos of the wondrous Beasts of Maravilla Island, and survive being stranded on a desolate moon base in Relicta. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, build and ride rollercoasters in Thrillville: Off the Rails, and roam dangerous dungeons in Torchlight.

Xbox Live Gold members will have exclusive access to these games for a limited time as part of Games with Gold. So will Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members, who receive all the fantastic benefits of Gold plus access to over 100 high-quality games with Xbox Game Pass.

• Beasts of Maravilla Island ($9.99 ERP): Available July 1 to 31
• Relicta ($19.99 ERP): Available July 16 to August 15
• Thrillville: Off the Rails ($9.99 ERP): Available July 1 to 15
• Torchlight ($14.99 ERP): Available July 16 to 31

 

[spons]

I love shit that's included in the price for free!

Terrible selection btw.

 

[Jennings]

Torchlight is a cheaper Diablo Immortal.

 

[anthony2690]

Just discontinue GWG, you can avoid the hassle you get each month on social media.

On the plus side, maybe I should finally play through torchlight, does it hold up?

 

[Warnen]

 

[AJUMP23]

I loved when Gold had cool games. Torchlight is great, but I played it and finished it a while ago.

 

[01011001]

PLEASE... PLEASE MICROSOFT! STOP IT! get rid of this fucking farce and make online play free already!

 

[93xfan]

Just discontinue GWG, you can avoid the hassle you get each month on social media.

On the plus side, maybe I should finally play through torchlight, does it hold up?

Why would I want to lose a feature I already have paid up? I’ll gladly redeem any BC games, especially because I get to own them.

 

[Punished Miku]

• Thrillville has been on my wishlist for a while, so that's better than nothing I guess.
• Torchlight is decent but I already have it.
• Relectica, not even lying - it's on my wishlist. I have zero expectation that it'll be good, but it looked decent enough to try at a steep discount. Guess I can try it now.
• Beasts of Marvalla is indie Pokemon Snap? I guess I'll try it.

I've honestly seen worse months than this. I give it a D+.

 

[Banjo64]

New Games with Gold for July 2022 - Xbox Wire

It’s time to announce the July Games with Gold lineup! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, capture photos of the wondrous Beasts of Maravilla Island, and survive being stranded on a desolate moon base in Relicta. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, build and ride...

news.xbox.com

It’s time to announce the July Games with Gold lineup! On the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, capture photos of the wondrous Beasts of Maravilla Island, and survive being stranded on a desolate moon base in Relicta. And for our classic lineup via Backward Compatibility, build and ride rollercoasters in Thrillville: Off the Rails, and roam dangerous dungeons in Torchlight.

 

[Banjo64]

At this point, I’d rather just have 1 free game a month that is of a decent standard. Whether it’s an OG Xbox title like Conker, a 360 game like Banjo, or a good Xbox One game.

It’s borderline insulting at this point.

 

[Bartski]

lmao

 

[CeeJay]

Just discontinue GWG, you can avoid the hassle you get each month on social media.

On the plus side, maybe I should finally play through torchlight, does it hold up?

Games with Gold is something required to justify the monthly cost. It may also be that they would be in breach of contract by removing a feature that people have paid upfront for, fine if they are adding value, different story if they take it away. It probably costs them next to nothing to include the shovelware and ancient games that they do, at this point it feels like GwG is getting Gamepasses rejects which in itself is (incorrectly) seen as a shovelware platform.

 

[Damigos]

Another month another joke

 

[adamsapple]

Torchlight is nice, but as always the games for gold play second fiddle to game pass.

These are the games coming in July and they haven't even announced a full lineup yet

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Another month another joke

 

[Banjo64]

Torchlight is nice, but as always the games for gold play second fiddle to game pass.

These are the games coming in July and they haven't even announced a full lineup yet

Yeah, we all know that Game Pass is good but this is a separate thread to discuss the dismal Gold offerings. Thanks for sharing though.

 

[Hezekiah]

Torchlight is nice, but as always the games for gold play second fiddle to game pass.

These are the games coming in July and they haven't even announced a full lineup yet

Gotta get in a mention somehow eh

 

[Jaybe]

This is complete trash relative to the PlayStation Plus Essential tier that it competes against.

 

[wvnative]

lmao

 

[graywolf323]

Xbox's Games with Gold now looks even worse in comparison since PS+ has been updated yet we're still getting pretty good quality from PS+ Essentials

Yeah, we all know that Game Pass is good but this is a separate thread to discuss the dismal Gold offerings. Thanks for sharing though.

it makes more sense if you view adamsapple as a GamePass evangelist

"have you heard the good word of GamePass from our Lord and Savior Phil Spencer?"

I mean I like GamePass but some people take it to a level approaching religious fanaticism

 

[adamsapple]

Torchlight is nice but MS just oughta close this program and add these games to the game pass announcements since that's what people look forward to anyway.

 

[Banjo64]

Xbox's Games with Gold now looks even worse in comparison since PS+ has been updated yet we're still getting pretty good quality from PS+ Essentials


it makes more sense if you view adamsapple as a GamePass evangelist

"have you heard the good word of GamePass from our Lord and Savior Phil Spencer?"

I mean I like GamePass but some people take it to a level approaching religious fanaticism

Someone raising the Xbox ambassador programme thing has really made me open my eyes.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Love that Cringe tag, that should just be auto for any title that includes "games with gold"

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Instead of offering these turds, I'd rather have no GWG games and have my annual sub plan be reduced a nickel.

 

[Forsythia]

Please kill it MS, this has been embarassing for months now.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

It just reeks of distain , recycling previous offerings in particular which has happened before and now with Torchlight.

I fully get the Gamepass appeal, the contempt for regular Xbox Live members tho is blatant. It won’t change unless there is a substantial decrease in subs and so many on social media think the sun shines out of their arse anyway it’s a waste of time saying in response to their tweets.

 

[Josemayuste]

 

[Banjo64]

It just reeks of distain , recycling previous offerings in particular which has happened before and now with Torchlight.

I fully get the Gamepass appeal, the contempt for regular Xbox Live members tho is blatant. It won’t change unless there is a substantial decrease in subs and so many on social media think the sun shines out of their arse anyway it’s a waste of time saying in response to their tweets.

They could just scrap Gold in its current incarnation and instead give Gold subscribers access to a smaller library of games (similar to the PS Plus Collection).

If they simply gave you access to all of their first party games from the Xbox, 360 and Xbox One that’d probably be worth the £40 odd a year.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

They could just scrap Gold in its current incarnation and instead give Gold subscribers access to a smaller library of games (similar to the PS Plus Collection).

If they simply gave you access to all of their first party games from the Xbox, 360 and Xbox One that’d probably be worth the £40 odd a year.

I like your thinking

 

[jorgejjvr]

They could just scrap Gold in its current incarnation and instead give Gold subscribers access to a smaller library of games (similar to the PS Plus Collection).

If they simply gave you access to all of their first party games from the Xbox, 360 and Xbox One that’d probably be worth the £40 odd a year.

yep, they need to kill gold, and get more creative with something else

I like this idea

 

[Bernd Lauert]

The most questionable deal in gaming.

 

[graywolf323]

They could just scrap Gold in its current incarnation and instead give Gold subscribers access to a smaller library of games (similar to the PS Plus Collection).

If they simply gave you access to all of their first party games from the Xbox, 360 and Xbox One that’d probably be worth the £40 odd a year.

not a bad idea but they'll never do that since Xbox obviously wants people to switch to Game Pass Ultimate so anything they do to make Gold more appealing by itself actually goes against that

 

[GenericUser]

I want to go back in time and play my genesis. I love Landstalker.

 

[Ezekiel_]

You'd think that with all the different 1$ deals going on, MS would just convert every Gold sub to GPU automatically and call it a day. MS wanted to double the price of Gold anyway.

They could boast about having 35 million subscribers and if someone doesn't want to pay extra for the 'regular' price once their sub expires, they can move their business elsewhere or wait for more deals.

 

[WoodyStare]

Every month these are announced, I don’t know what’s funnier: the selection of games, or their “value”.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[Roberts]

I dont have any of these so I can’t really complain even though I doubt I will play them.

 

[Gudji]

 

[Lognor]

Torchlight I have on pc for years but I'll definitely play that if it has local multiplayer.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

 

[Magic Carpet]

if I get rid of gold will I be able to get rid of all the ghosts running around in elden ring?
Gold Busters

 

[adamsapple]

I dont have any of these so I can’t really complain even though I doubt I will play them.

Torchlight is the only half decent game in that list.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Just discontinue GWG, you can avoid the hassle you get each month on social media.

On the plus side, maybe I should finally play through torchlight, does it hold up?

I don't want GP and us Gold subscribers greatly outnumber the GP subscribers.

So what about us?

 

[Damigos]

 

[jshackles]

Why Microsoft, why?

 

[SportsFan581]

Should probably switch to two games or something. Maybe they could offer some decent X1 titles with that.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Games with gold needs to be taken out back and shot in the head

 

[Sleepwalker]

I don't want GP and us Gold subscribers greatly outnumber the GP subscribers.

So what about us?

You get online and are spared from adding shit games to your library.