[SkinnyPupp]

Game Pass offers a huge variety of games, from AAA first party and Bethesda titles to indy games and everything in between. I've discovered games that I never heard of before, and then fell in love with. So I started this thread to talk about the new releases that we've been checking out.

Lately there have been a couple good ones

12 Minutes - a point and click adventure that has a time loop that ends in 12 minutes or less, depending on what happens. It's a pretty cool mystery and system, but it can be repetitive having to do some things over and over every time you want to try one thing different. Still worth checking out, I beat it in about 4 hours I think.

Humankind - A pure Civ style game, but with different systems. I've been absolutely hooked on this, and beat it multiple times already, increasing the difficulty each time. If you like Civ but are getting a bit bored of it, this is perfect for you. You already know how this type of game works, but it's fun to learn how all the systems work. The combat is way better than Civ.

It's also fun to try different archetypes in each game. Basically you don't just choose one civ for the whole game, you start with an early one, but can switch later on. So maybe you want to start with an agriculture based civ to grow your populatiion, then switch to production to put that populati9on to work, them military to take over the world. Each civ has one unique building, a special aspect, and the category bonus. It's a really cool system.

Only issue is it might be too easy.. Even with the second hardest difficulty, I just run away with the game very early on.