Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass is an Xbox Play Anywhere service, incorporating Xbox One and Xbox 360 backward compatibility game subscriptions; with titles and number of games that varies over time and by country.
While the subscription is charged monthly, and starting at $10 a month gives you day-and-date access to all of Microsoft’s exclusive games, and a sizable selection of other third-party titles, albeit many are not available in all countries.
The connections between Windows 10 and Xbox One, has now made it possible for PC owners to purchase subscription for Xbox Game Pass, though for only compatible Xbox Play Anywhere games— mostly Microsoft’s first-party titles.
And the service is locked down to the Windows 10 Store, with many third-party games missing from the available titles; with quite a few publishers making Universal Windows Platform (UWP) versions of their games, there isn’t much catalog to choose from the service.
But it’s still an incredible deal, and given that there’s no PC equivalent, even though it's all the more irksome.
The actual release date remains the biggest concern, and also far a larger problem is the fact that Microsoft has a limited PC library, while Xbox Game Pass on PC can only access Microsoft’s first party offerings and other Xbox Play Anywhere games.
Microsoft, however thinks its first-party lineup games are compelling enough to justify the price tag of $10 a month, and it won’t be putting any more effort to build a larger library, at least not in the meantime.
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