Play Madden 25 on Xbox Game Pass Now Ahead of Super Bowl 2025

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Subscribers can play the latest installment in the popular sports franchise now and other games soon.

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Apple software beta tester, “Helps make our computers and phones work!” – Zach’s grandparents The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are set to face off in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday. If you aren’t a fan of either and don’t plan on watching the game, you can take your favorite team to the big game with Madden 25 on Xbox Game Pass instead.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate — a CNET Editors’ Choice award pick — offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Series S, Xbox One, PC and mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription provides access to a large library of games, with new titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 added every month, plus benefits such as online multiplayer and deals on non-Game Pass titles.

Read more: Microsoft’s Developer Direct Proved Game Pass Is Xbox’s New Norm

Here are all the games Microsoft plans to add to Xbox Game Pass in February. You can also check out other games Microsoft added to the service in January, like Sniper Elite: Resistance.

Madden 25Available now.

The Super Bowl might mark the end of football season, but you can keep it going with Madden 25. The latest installment of the popular sports franchise brings a new physics-based tackling system to the game, and it reengineers the Hit Stick so you can deliver bigger, more accurate hits. So get ready to play and watch some hard-hitting football all yearlong.

Another Crab’s Treasure (console) Available now.

You know what they say: One man’s trash is another crab’s treasure, or something like that. Microsoft brought this game to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in April 2024, and now the company is bringing it to Game Pass Standard subscribers. This game is like a cross between Elden Ring and the classic game Ecco the Dolphin. You play as a hermit crab who sets off on a quest to buy back your repossessed shell. You’ll have to use the trash of the ocean to protect yourself against huge enemies, and you’ll also learn why the ocean is so polluted with garbage to begin with. And who knows, maybe you’ll see Ariel with her collection of thingamabobs down there.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (console) Available now.

If you’re a Game Pass Standard subscriber, get ready to gather your friends and allies for this action JRPG. You have to create a party of six heroes out of over 100 — it’s in the name, after all — as you set off on an adventure across the war-torn continent of Allraan. You can also manage a small town and play mini-games along the way. 

Starfield (Xbox Series X/S) Available now.

Game Pass Standard subscribers can explore this expansive sci-fi RPG from the same studio that made The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4. You play as a miner who finds an alien artifact, and this sets off a chain reaction across the stars. While the main story follows you as you try to unlock the secrets of this artifact, you can go off and explore more than 1,000 planets, interact with colonies and outposts, and create your own story.

Kingdom Two Crowns (cloud and console) Available: Feb. 13

Microsoft removed this game from Game Pass a few years ago, and now the company is bringing it back to the service. In this 2D adventure strategy game, you have to build up your kingdom during the day to secure it from a threat called the Greed that attacks at night. You’ll then conquer far-off lands in order to put a stop to the Greed threat once and for all. 

Avowed Available: Feb. 18

From the developers of Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds comes a new adventure in a place called the Living Lands. A mysterious plague is creeping throughout the land and spreading chaos. You’re sent to investigate, and what unfolds is a tale riddled with war, intrigue and ancient mysteries. Wield magic and steel as you carve your own destiny and uncover the truth.

Games leaving Game Pass in February While Microsoft is adding those six games to different tiers of Xbox Game Pass, the company is also removing seven other games from the service on Feb. 15. So you still have some time to finish your campaign and any side quests in these games before you have to buy them separately.

A Little to the LeftBloodstained Ritual of the NightEA Sports UFC 3IndivisibleMerge and BladeReturn to GraceTales of AriseFor more on Xbox, check out other games available on Game Pass Ultimate now, read our hands-on review of the gaming service and learn which Game Pass plan is right for you.

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