Well, it seems I am back on Game Pass Duty this month, as the latest additions have been revealed. Several titles have been added to the Game Pass Library, but along with them comes the 50 cloud-enabled games with Xbox Touch controls; The touchscreen-based controller system for the Xbox cloud gaming service.

Some of the many additions added to the Xbox Touch controls for cloud-enabled games include: Slay The Spire, Sea of Thieves, Minecraft: Dungeons, Stranger Things 3: The Game, Telltale’s Walking Dead series, Enter The Gungeon, Dead Cells, and a lot more. Take this as a personal opinion, but I am not a fan of touch controls when it comes to games, for obvious reasons. I don’t want my grubby hands in my view while I am trying to kill something in the likes of Gears 5 or playing Celeste, so I don’t understand the idea behind this.

Nonetheless, we roll on to what is available starting this month on Game Pass.

Cloud and Console from April the 8th – Grand Theft Auto V

The open-world game about gangs and violence in a series that courts enough controversy you’d think it was Six Day in Fallujah. Well, GTA V isn’t really the one about gangs and violence. It is more about two old interesting characters and the one character of color who is treated both the player’s window into the world and a nothing character. As critical as I am of how poorly Franklin’s character is, it is still a colorful and explosion-filled world in a city I love beyond that of the real L.A. If you are the one person who hasn’t played it, this would be a good reason to pick up Game Pass alone.

Cloud, Console, and PC from April the 8th – Zombie Army 4: Dead War

In the off-shoot of the sniper shooter series Sniper Elite, you face off with Nazi zombies in the period of the second world war. Oddly enough it is not the topically humorous reference of the corpses of white nationalism returning in 2017 onward. Before I get shouted at for simply stating what is true, let’s focus back on the game and its 1-4 player campaign stomping through the occult European terror.

Cloud from April the 8th – Disneyland Adventures

Well, I don’t have much to say about this one as it was a Kinect release back in 2010(?) that was more or less a big advertisement for the Disneyland park in Florida. Yes, it does allow you to not go to Florida, but at what cost? Well from what I’ve gotten from the game in my brief time with it, it is a collection of mini-games centered around the titular characters of several Disney-owned properties. A few examples are Peter Pan battling Hook, punching Mickey while he tries to high-five you, and hugging Snow White.

Cloud from April the 8th – Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure

Another Kinect title that was released later to support controller-only play, and the sequel to Disneyland Adventure. This time you get to run around with Pixar characters. Hugging cooking rats, high-fiving cars, and pressing the button on Buzz Lightyear’s chest to retract his helmet. Released in 2012, it was one of the last major Kinect titles, I believe (though I could be wrong).

Console through EA Play on April the 12th – NHL 21

Do you legally want to beat a man to death with a stick? Boy, do I! Canada’s favorite sport aside from trying to apologize a little bit too much is the game for you. NHL 21 releases on to Xbox Game Pass a few months after its launch back in October. It is everything Hockey fans could ever want: Ice, a little black puck, and a bunch of men trying to kill each other with blades on their feet.

Cloud, Console, and PC addition coming on April the 15th – Rain on Your Parade

You control a cute little cardboard cut-out of a cloud, and given you are not a nice person, you try to rain on everyone’s parade (day). Yes, you are a malevolent little sod, trying to ruin everyone’s day across 50 levels. It is an interesting little puzzle game to say the least that I think could be a standout, I wouldn’t know, I’ve yet to play a little bit of it and ruin everyone’s day. I tend to do that by moaning about their favorite games anyway.

PC on the 15th of April – Pathway

I covered this interesting little Indiana Jones-wannabe turn-based strategy game back when it was free on the Epic Games Store, and I have to say, I was quite interested in it. Ok, I might not have been the nicest to it at the time, but I did at least enjoy a tiny bit of it. A pixel-based Egypt is overrun with Nazis and you, as the likely hero, set out on an adventure to take them on and defeat them. By the way, it is 1936, so (spoilers!) I doubt there is much you can really do unless you haven’t read a history book after 1901; Boy, do you have a lot to catch up on!

Cloud and console on April the 20th – MLB The Show 21

The final addition to Game Pass this month is here. Yes, the one that courted enough uproar from petulant children on Twitter that even I saw it. MLB The Show 21, the Sony developed baseball game about sitting around for 90% of a day, is not only coming to the Xbox One and Series X/S consoles, but also to Game Pass with cross-play with those on PS4 and PS5. This is one that I am sure Taylor will be very happy about, as he’s previously spoken about the series. Meanwhile, I get bored by cricket, never mind cricket with a round bat and Puerto Ricans.

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