Another month, another confetti shower of new games being added to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service, with March’s offerings including the previously announced Ori and the Will of the Wisps, plus Train Sim World 2020, Pikuniku, and more.
Starting with Xbox One, 5th March brings both NBA 2K20 and Train Sim World 2020. The latter promises realistic choo-choo action, including “complete in-cab interactivity, accurate detail on locos, real-world routes, and many hours of compelling gameplay”.
Then, on 11th March, Xbox One players can get their hands on Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the even more gorgeous sequel to 2015’s already stunning Ori and the Blind Forest. Expect another helping of challenging 2D Metroidvania action, only “larger, deeper and somehow even more sumptuous”, according to Eurogamer’s Martin Robinson.
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12th March brings wonderful, and genuinely funny, absurdist exploration game Pikuniku to Xbox One (Martin called this a “joyous, smart and imaginative adventure” in his Recommended review), and 13th March ushers in co-operative zombie survival game State of Decay 2, in its supposedly radical overhauled Juggernaut Edition guise.