Game Pass shows no signs of slowing coming out a month out of E3 2019, following the announcement and launch of Xbox Game Pass for PC and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Today, Xbox revealed the next wave of free games coming to Game Pass subscribers in the early weeks of July. Between July 4 and July 11, eight new games will be coming to Game Pass, split and shared between both PC and Xbox One.

As with late June’s Game Pass additions, several of the games are PC-exclusive as the Xbox team works to flesh out the platform’s library after its announcement. Most of the games, that being four of the eight, will be available on both platforms. Only a single new game will be exclusive to the Xbox One. In summary, that’s seven games available on PC and five games available on Xbox One. Or eight games for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers, who can access titles on both platforms.

Titles offered in this month’s Xbox Game Pass lineup also offer a healthy mix of genre diversity, including both AAA games and indies. Genres span pure action games to story-rich RPGs to point-and-click adventures. Here are the games themselves, along with their release dates:

  • Middle-earth: Shadow of War - PC/Xbox One - 7/4 My Time at Portia - PC/Xbox One - 7/4 Undertale - PC - 7/4 Blazing Chrome - PC/Xbox One - 7/11 Dead Rising 4 - PC/Xbox One - 7/11 LEGO City Undercover - Xbox One - 7/11 Timespinner - PC/Xbox One - 7/11 Unavowed - PC/Xbox One - 7/11

This is just the first wave of Xbox Game Pass titles coming to the subscription service in the month of June. Expect more games to be announced and released in the second half of June, on Jun 18 and 25, given Xbox’s now routine schedule of announcements and launches.

Xbox Game Pass continues to offer an impressive service month-to-month. The introduction of Xbox Game Pass on PC and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate have created a robust service with incredible value, especially given Microsoft’s offer to upgrade any existing Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass subscription to Ultimate for a very low price. As an era of cloud streaming and subscription services arises for various platforms, Game Pass is standing out.

That said, it does have to be noted that games are leaving the service, too. In fact, for the Xbox One games are leaving the service faster than they’re being added. Eight games dropped out of Xbox Game Pass on June 30 and three more departures have been revealed to leave the service in July, including Aftercharge, Warhammer Vermintide 2, and The LEGO Movie Videogame. For now, the PC version of Game Pass hasn’t begun bleeding games.

Whether or not the games being removed from the service counters the new games being added is a matter for each subscriber to decide. There’s no argument that the value in Xbox Game Pass is as high as ever, but in the age of zero ownership it pays to be aware of how the service operates and what subscribers are paying for.