This is kind of a sh*tpost, I’ll admit, but I’m just kind of amazed by what is going on with Game Pass this week.

They’ve added 3 games in 3 days and I imagine for a lot of folks there’s nothing of note here, or maybe one of the three is of some interest, but for me? It’s like someone at Microsoft looked over my shoulder and said “He’s focusing too much on the games he’s playing… let’s tempt the heck out of him.”

Now I haven’t played ANY of these games yet but I really want to play all three. They are:

Star Trucker — Think of this like Euro Truck Simulator, only in space. There was a demo of it during one of the Steam Next Fest events and I tried it then and really had a good time with it. Mind you this isn’t game of the year material… but it was just fun. Assuming I’m remembering right, anyway. I’ll know more when I play it!

Age of Mythology: Retold — Folks of a certain age will remember Age of Mythology. It was basically Age of Empires with a fantasy twist in that various gods manifested in the game with their special powers. I’m not sure if this is a straight-up re-release with better graphics or if there’s new content, but I’m looking forward to finding out!

Expeditions: A MudRunner Game — Around this time last year I was devoting a significant amount of my gaming time to Snowrunner, the prior game in this series. This one seems like it may have a little more ‘game’ to it in that it has various goals beyond basically “Haul something from here to there.” but if it is half as much fun (to me!) as Snowrunner I’m in deep trouble and may as well uninstall all the MMOs I’ve been trying to juggle.

And that’s it. That’s the post. 3 games in 3 days and I REALLY want to play them all. I doubt any of these will be super popular and probably I’m in a very small group in being excited for all three of them but… thanks Xbox, for all the interesting games this week!