Download Digest: ‘Loop Hero’ and ‘Minecraft Legends’ lead Game Pass, ‘Sackboy’ and new multiplayer game ‘Meet Your Maker’ free on PlayStation Plus

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It’s a new month — one where big showers may lead to big flowers — and both Microsoft and Sony are ready for a downpour of big games on their prospective services.

Starting off strong, Microsoft announced that indie darling Loop Hero — an endlessly replayable card-based RPG — is now available on Game Pass. Also ready to download today is Goat Simulator, the 2014 comedy game where players control a goat through increasingly zany situations. Its sequel, Goat Simulator 3 (no, there was never a Goat Simulator 2, why do you ask?), released in November of 2022.

Headlining the rest of the month for Game Pass is Ghostwire: Tokyo — the former PlayStation exclusive developed by Microsoft subsidiary Tango Gameworks — which arrives April 12 alongside the free Spider’s Thread update that includes new areas to explore, new cutscenes, and other quality of life updates. Then there’s Minecraft Legends, the action-strategy game from Mojang which promotes base-building and teamwork to take down an opposing team. Let’s not forget Coffee Talk Episode 2, the sequel to 2020’s cozy visual novel about making drinks and solving problems (not necessarily in that order) of your magical clientele. Rounding out the Microsoft Game Pass joy is The Last Case of Benedict Fox, a cosmic horror Metroidvania romp through the minds of the dead where the titular detective attempts to solve an impossible mystery.

Sadly, when games arrive on Xbox Game Pass, that means others must leave. Making their exit with grace on April 15 are the following titles: Life is Strange: True Colors, Deck Nine’s wonderfully emotional reinvention of the choice-based narrative series; voxel life-sim and relaxer Moonglow Bay; and survival horror game The Long Dark, among others. It’s