Published on 2 Jun, 2021
Microsoft have announced the next handful of games coming to Xbox Game Pass For PC, and one of my absolute faves is on the list. The gloomy turn-based roguelike Darkest Dungeon will be available on the subscription service on June 10th; an excellent chance for players who might ve missed it to give it a go before the sequel launches later this year. On June 8th, the raccoon detective game Backbone is hitting the service too.
Made by Red Hook Studios, Darkest Dunegon will have you dragging adventurers into dire dungeons, slaying monsters and working to discover what strange things are afoot. It started life in early access in 2015, and I recently interviewed the devs about that experience. They loved early access, and plan on doing it all again when they release the sequel this year.
In conversation with
PC Gamer, a representative of Epic Games said that the exclusives launching over the next two years will total more than all the previous ones put together. Although there was no mention of names, this statement responded to a seeming lull in the number of exclusives coming to the store.
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Borderlands 3 was an Epic Games exclusive for six months, and
Metro Exodus for a year. In October 2020, it was announced that Red Hook Studios would only publish Darkest Dungeon 2 for Early Access on the Epic Games Store, with many others following suit.
The exclusivity deals have caused some issues, however.