Three games coming to Xbox Game Pass in January 2022

Microsoft hasn’t officially posted its list of upcoming Xbox Game Pass titles for January 2022, but looking ahead to some upcoming releases, we already know of three games set to come to service next month.

The first is The Anacrusis, a four-player cooperative first-person shooter in which you’re aboard a massive starship stranded at the edge of space. On the surface, The Anacrusis isn’t terribly impressive graphically or gameplay wise. It’s essentially a horde mode where you fight off waves of never-ending aliens.

But it’s what’s going on under the hood that makes The Anacrusis so compelling. The game aims to provide infinite replayability and it does so with its AI Driver. The Driver controls every aspect of the game — enemy spawns, boss control, weapon and gadget spawns, etc. The goal with this is not just to change things up every time you play, but to deliver the perfect difficulty for your party. It also knows how much of the story each player has experience so it knows how much of the story — the secrets of the alien attack, relationships between the characters, etc. — to reveal as you play.

January is actually filled with some impressive co-op shooters, including Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, so it will be interesting to see how The Anacrusis fairs when it releases on January 13, 2022.

Windjammers 2 is another game making its Xbox debut on Xbox Game Pass. A sequel to the 1994 arcade classic, Windjammers is a sports game described as Pong mixed with Street Fighter. The goal is to basically throw a frisbee into your opponent’s goal, but what makes this game so much fun is the colorful cast of characters you’re playing with. They’ve got style, they’ve got personality, they’ve got some serious competitive juices flowing. Windjammers 2 releases on January 20, 2022.

And the third game we know about coming to Xbox Game Pass in January 2022 is Pupperazzi. An indie title from Kitfox Games, Pupperazzi drops you onto an island filled with adorable pups that need their photos taken. Interact with these dogs, take their photos and, well, that’s about it. Pupperazzi is set to release on January 20, 2022.

That’s all we know right now that’s coming to Xbox Game Pass in January 2022, but we’ll be sure to let you know if any additional titles make their way to the service.