Xbox Game Pass Adds New Day One Title with Strong Reviews Today

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Xbox Game Pass adds A Plague Tale: Requiem today, with the title having receiving strong reviews prior to release. Of course, it's just one of the games coming this month. Following it on October 20 is technically six games, includingAmnesia Collection (which includes The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, and Justine), Amnesia: Rebirth, Phantom Abyss(Game Preview), and Soma.

October 21 will see the addition of the Persona 5 Royal PC and Xbox port, and October 27 will add Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery, Gunfire Reborn, andSignalis. It's definitely a busy month, and while Xbox Game Pass has already added plenty of great games this month, A Plague Tale: Requiem is a great addition.

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According to review aggregator OpenCritic, A Plague Tale: Requiem has «strong» reviews.It has an 83 Top Critic Average across 90 reviews, with a total of 83% of critics recommending the game. It'll be interesting to see how fans feel about it exactly, but at the very least, it seems most agree that A Plague Tale: Requiem is a solid sequel and a great game as a whole.

A Plague Tale: Requiem takes place six months after the first game, with Amicia and Hugo de Rune traveling to Southern France in search of a cure for Hugo's blood disease. It explores the connection of the siblings, Hugo's plight with his powers, and Amicia's own trauma as she kills and so on to protect herself and her brother.

In our A Plague Tale: Requiem review, we wrote, "A Plague Tale: Requiem is everything that one could want from a sequel to A Plague Tale: Innocence. It's more ambitious and action-packed than Innocence, and is quite easily one of the best new game releases of the year. The fact thatA Plague Tale: Requiem is a day one