Game Pass keeps stacking
Xbox Game Pass added Disco Elysium and made South of Midnight plus The Alters available to Premium subscribers now — and Kiln is confirmed as a day‑one Game Pass release on April 23, giving RPG and indie fans a heavy spring lineup (x.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (gamerant.com).
South of Midnight and The Alters were added to Game Pass Premium on March 18, while Disco Elysium: The Final Cut joined Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium and PC Game Pass on March 19. (news.xbox.com) Double Fine’s Kiln is scheduled to launch on April 23, 2026 across Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud, PlayStation 5 and Steam, and Microsoft confirmed it will be available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at release. (news.xbox.com) An open beta for Kiln is set to run on Steam from April 9–11, with additional closed playtests available to sign-ups in the lead-up to the April 23 launch. (news.xbox.com) Kiln’s core multiplayer loop is 4v4 “Quench” matches in which players shape vessels on a pottery wheel—the vessel’s size and shape determine stats like health and water capacity and grant special abilities. (news.xbox.com) Double Fine has been part of Xbox Game Studios since Microsoft announced the acquisition on June 9, 2019, and the studio has a recent track record of Game Pass day‑one entries, including Psychonauts 2 on August 25, 2021 and Keeper on October 17, 2025. (news.xbox.com) Microsoft’s late‑March Wave 2 rollout that included Disco Elysium also lists Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and Final Fantasy IV among coming additions, with other titles—Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Absolum—slated for March 24–25 in the official Xbox Wire announcement. (news.xbox.com)
