It morphs from being a simple choose-your-own-adventure game to a complicated exercise in anticipation, determination and, yes, loss, as whole branches of narrative are systematically closed off to you. Its main trick is to allow you to see into the future, through a mystical flowchart known as the Augural, and come to decisions accordingly. When you are allowed to start making choices, it seems far less ambitious than developer Don’t Nod’s other narrative games, such as the excellent Life is Strange series.īut soon you come to realise that Harmony is actually far more ambitious than its predecessors. The story is told in the style of a visual novel, with beautiful animations punctuated by static screens of characters talking to each other. All these things might be connected.Īs for the gameplay: at first, there basically isn’t any. Solving the mysterious disappearance of her artist-activist mother in the real world solving the problems of the gods in the dream world. The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales - June 22į.I.S.T.Pretty soon into Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, she’s spirited away from her life in a fictional near-future Mediterranean cityįrom then on, Polly/Harmony’s always flitting between the two. This is the full list of titles you can expect to come to the subscription service between today and July 5. It's an isometric adventure game where the main gimmick is that players can enter the worlds of books they come across.įormer PlayStation console exclusive F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch will also come to Xbox Series X/S via Xbox Game Pass on June 27. At the time, I said it was "a surprisingly entertaining racer in a year that hasn’t seen much racing game excitement since Gran Turismo 7." On the indie side of things, The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales will be a day one Xbox Game Pass release on June 22. Coming to the service via its EA Play connection, this is a solid racing game that I gave a three-and-a-half-star review last year.
The most notable game to hit Xbox Game Pass Ultimate during the back half of June will be Need for Speed Unbound. Thankfully, the losses the service will suffer at the end of the month aren't too bad either.
While the list lacks any major exclusives or first-party games, a solid racing game from 2022 and some intriguing indies make it an interesting batch.
Microsoft has revealed that games that will be coming to Xbox Game Pass throughout the rest of June and even into early July.
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