April’s new Xbox Game Pass arrivals bring you Lego racing, Lara Croft and Lil Gator. Subscribers can play like Mario Kart Lego 2K Driver Starting Wednesday, wrapping up the trilogy Shadow of the Tomb Raider April 11 and a fascinating stop-motion adventure game Harold Halibut on April 16.
Lego 2K Driver, launching in May 2023, allows developer Vision Concepts (known for the NBA 2K and WWE 2K series) to take the helm from Travellers’ Tales to create the first Lego game. We were quickly drawn by it charming car modifications and strange fun In a game that draws equally from Mario Kart and Forza Horizon 5.
If you can download it for free with your Game Pass subscription, our quirks (no quick way to restart races and questionable nudging of microtransactions) will be easier to see past. Lego 2K Driver It will be available to Game Pass members on April 3 for the cloud and Xbox consoles.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Completing Lara Croft’s origin story, Survivor Trilogy rebooted the series as an Uncharted-esque cinematic epic. Help Croft traverse the jungles, caves and ruins (with tombs) as he battles the mysterious and powerful Trinity organization and completes his transformation into the character known and loved from previous iterations. You can play it on April 11 in the cloud, on Xbox consoles and on PC.
Harold Halibut is a quirky adventure game in the spirit of old-school Sierra or LucasArts games. a unique visual twist. 250 years after Harold escaped from a doomed Earth, he works as a lab technician on a sunken spaceship. But the game’s stop-motion digital animation steals the show, fittingly portraying the story’s fascinatingly bleak sci-fi premise.
Developer Slow Bros. hand-crafted characters, environments and objects that were digitally scanned and animated, resulting in a striking old-school motif. Harold Halibut It will be available on April 16 on the cloud, PC and Xbox Series X/S.
A time-slowing motion puzzle is also available for Game Pass members in April Superhot: Remove Mind Control (available Tuesday for cloud, console and PC), an innocent family-friendly open-world adventure Lil Gator Game (April 4: cloud / console / PC), EA Sports PGA Tour (April 4: cloud / PC / Xbox Series X/S) and surreal detective game Kona (April 9: cloud / console).
You’re leaving Xbox Game Pass this month Amnesia Collection, Amnesia: Rebirth, Back 4 Blood, Phantom Abyss, Explore and destroy and Soma. They are available until April 15.
