It’s been amazing value for me - I’d spent a decade away from video games outside of Nintendo, so I had a giant backlog - I’ve played over 100 in the last 12 months on my Series X.

However, I’m noticing diminishing returns, since I’m spending a lot of time on games like Mass Effect, which are cheap to buy. There’s also a lot of games in genres I don’t like e.g JRPG, fighting, sports, and also plainly bad games.

The balance of good new games vs ones leaving the service is pretty poor, too. If I wasn’t locked into another year, I’d drop it for a while.

TLDR - look at the catalogue, work out how much it would cost to buy the games you’d play, and then decide.

Depends on your existing library of games.

I would say yes. For me it’s nice not having to buy random games for my kids on the Xbox that they may or may not keep playing. There’s such a large library on Game Pass for them to mess around with. For me, being able to stream games to my phone/tablet and PC has been a game changer. I usually don’t play faster paced game so the occasional signal dip (only on my phone and tablet) doesn’t bother me and I can play the same save across all devices. And if I’m being honest if I’m on a decent connection the gameplay is perfectly fine mobile.

You can look into the list of games on Game Pass before buying it and see what you’re interested in. It’s totally worth it for a few months imo to finish your high priority games, but I wouldn’t keep it for an extensive period of time since it’s pretty expensive.

It depends on if you’re going to use all the features of Ultimate vs just the standard Game Pass offering. I only play on PC, so I only pay for PC game pass as I won’t use the extras of Ultimate.

But the game library offerings of Game Pass is great. It’s a tough value to beat for all the games you get for that monthly price.

If they’re still doing the Xbox live upgrade for $1 deal, it’s definitely worth it. Get a year of Xbox live off Amazon and upgrade it. If that deal isn’t around anymore, I’d probably say no. Though Starfield being up soon will nice.

It’s probably the first thing I suggest to people that are not regular gamers, and are getting back into things.

Even for myself, someone who buys plenty of releases, each month I ask myself “Could I maybe unsubscribe from Game Pass?” and then they make announcements of a bunch of cool games appearing on it soon.

Admittedly, psychology results in me playing a number of old, familiar games, but I’m still really happy for the indie games that get attention they otherwise wouldn’t.

I am absolutely loving it. I have both a Series X and a Rog Ally. Been playing all the AAA games on the X while leaving the Indies to my Ally.

It’s been worth it for me… gotten to try a lot of games I wouldn’t have otherwise. And it’s an especially good deal if you have kids!

I got a free couple months on a code, instantly liked it, got into Microsoft Rewards to keep it rolling and haven’t looked back. Only bought one game since starting it. Played loads of stuff I wouldn’t have given a go prior and lived some of them, there’s a lot of choice. I think it’s pretty great.

I just signed up for GamePass (I don’t have a console). The first month is a euro or a dollar in the US - I know this because it thought I was in the US and I had to change my settings in Windows. So, I guess you can try it out if you have a PC you play games on.

Only if you are on console.

If you are on PC just get the normal one