The Witcher 3 leaves Xbox Game Pass with four more games
CD Projekt Red is showing a brand new Witcher 3 expansion next Tuesday. Six days later, The Witcher 3 drops out of Xbox Game Pass. Someone at Microsoft is having a laugh.
The Xbox app hung the leaving soon tag on five games this morning, Geralt included. Nothing dramatic behind it. Games join the catalogue for an agreed run, then go back to being games you buy. The Complete Edition turned up on 19 February for Premium and Ultimate members, so its six months are simply up.
Everything on the way out
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Complete Edition, both expansions included.
- Another Crab's Treasure, the soulslike where you play a hermit crab in an underwater dump.
- Neon Abyss, a roguelike shooter with an absurd pile of modifiers.
- One Lonely Outpost, farming, except on a dead alien planet.
- I Am Your Beast, a very short shooter built out of two minute missions.
Nobody will give you the exact day
Microsoft never does. It does not really have to, because the pattern has not moved in years. Games leave in the middle of the month and at the very end, never in between. Firewatch, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Atlas Fallen and Menace all went on 15 August. Which leaves 31 August. Treat it as a hard deadline and not as a rough guide.
So what can you realistically finish
150 hours of Witcher in a fortnight? No. An old save is a completely different question, and if yours is parked anywhere near Toussaint then Blood and Wine is two quiet evenings and still the finest goodbye any RPG has written for itself. The short ones are free wins. I Am Your Beast is a single evening. Another Crab's Treasure is a lazy weekend and funnier than a game about a hermit crab in a bin has any right to be.
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Are you getting Geralt done before the month runs out? Tell us in the comments which one you are starting with tonight.