Xbox Game Pass May 2025 Wave 1 Lineup Confirmed

Microsoft has confirmed Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass May 2025 lineup.

In a station connected Xbox Wire, Microsoft revealed 12 games hitting its subscription service, taking america up to May 20. The biggest hitter present is Doom: The Dark Ages, the latest crippled successful id Software’s world-famous first-person shooter series. That is, arsenic a Microsoft-owned game, a day-one Game Pass launch. But it’s not the lone day-one Game Pass motorboat of May 2025.

Available today, May 6, is Dredge (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S), which hits Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard. Here’s the authoritative blurb, from Microsoft:

Dredge is simply a single-player sportfishing escapade with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and observe wherefore immoderate things are champion near forgotten.

May 7 is simply a large time for Game Pass, with a fig of additions: Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) connected Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard; Dungeons of Hinterberg (Console), present connected Game Pass Standard; Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Xbox Series X|S), present connected Game Pass Standard; and Metal Slug Tactics (Console), besides present connected Game Pass Standard.

Here’s a large one: May 8 sees Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) deed Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass arsenic a day-one title.

In a aboriginal knocked disconnected its axis by firm greed and stupidity, you person been made redundant and abandoned connected the acold borderline of abstraction with small cogwheel and nary information net. You indispensable research each nook and cranny, cod dozens of upgrades, and crook implicit each mysterious alien stone if you privation to get revenge connected your erstwhile leader and instrumentality to Earth.

Also connected May 8, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (Cloud, Console, and PC) joins Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard.

Join the legendary Turtle brothers consecutive from the sewer and descent into this caller escapade of shell-shocking proportions. With the assistance of April’s insightful reports from the streets and Splinter’s sage guidance, cogwheel up to combat transgression and unravel an epic saga of justness and chaos!

Moving connected to May 13, we’ve got Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (Cloud and Console) connected Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass Standard.

Making a instrumentality to the Game Pass library! Fight unneurotic with your friends against the forces of Chaos and Skaven successful this epic 4-player co-op crippled acceptable successful the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world. Vermintide 2 expands the aggravated first-person combat with a brand-new force faction, 15 caller vocation paths, endowment trees, caller weapons, an improved loot system, and more.

The main lawsuit is of people Doom: The Dark Ages (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S), connected May 15 erstwhile the shooter hits Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass day-one.

Doom: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal that tells an epic cinematic communicative worthy of the Doom Slayer’s legend. In this 3rd installment of the modern Doom series, players volition measurement into the blood-stained boots of the Doom Slayer, successful this never-before-seen acheronian and sinister medieval warfare against Hell. Get a caput commencement connected slaying demons with the Premium Upgrade, including up to 2-Day Early Access, the run DLC astatine launch, and more.

A time later, connected May 16, Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC) launches connected Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass arsenic yet different day-one title.

Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo is simply a papercraft escapade crippled wherever you’ll conscionable the galore bully and not-so-good folks of Limbo, a spot wherever souls with heavy regrets are cursed into repeating the aforesaid time connected a loop.

Rounding retired the May 2025 Wave 1 lineup connected May 20 are Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Cloud, Console, and PC) crossed Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard, and Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, and PC) besides crossed Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard.

Xbox Game Pass May 2025 Wave 1 lineup:

• Dredge (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – May 6
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 7
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• Dungeons of Hinterberg (Console) – May 7
  Now with Game Pass Standard
• Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Xbox Series X|S) – May 7
  Now with Game Pass Standard
• Metal Slug Tactics (Console) – May 7
  Now with Game Pass Standard
• Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – May 8
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 8
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (Cloud and Console) – May 13
  Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard
• Doom: The Dark Ages (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – May 15
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 16
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
• Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard

Leaving Xbox Game Pass connected May 15:

The pursuing games are leaving the Game Pass room connected May 15. As always, you tin usage your rank discount to prevention up to 20% to support them successful your library.

• Brothers A Tale of Two Sons (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Chants of Sennaar (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Dune: Spice Wars (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Hauntii (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• The Big Con (Cloud, Console, and PC)

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