Microsoft has announced the first half of September’s Game Pass additions, and it won’t surprise you to learn that Hollow Knight: Silksong is the headline entry. Team Cherry’s long-delayed Metroidvania is finally coming out September 4, which still doesn’t feel real, but to drive the point home Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will have access the moment the game is launched. But don’t let it entirely distract you from some other ace titles, including I Am Your Beast and Nine Sols.
People were already shocked to discover that Hollow Knight: Silksong would only cost $20, but for those who hadn’t been paying close attention, there’s a new round of delighted surprise to come when they realize they might not have to pay anything extra at all. The wildly anticipated game is coming to the Game Pass Ultimate tier, as well as to PC Game Pass, September 4 at the same time it goes on sale everywhere else.
But there are games to play before then. Right now, you can get started with 2024’s I Am Your Beast, the “shortform covert revenge thriller FPS” that proved enormously well-liked on Steam last year. Then, September 3 you’ve got 2024’s acclaimed Nine Sols, a 2D action-platformer from Red Candle Games, who previously released the excellent horror titles Detention and Devotion.
Joining Silksong on September 4 on PC is Cataclismo, a city builder and strategy game where you create your castles brick by brick, which reviewed extremely well when it came out in May.
On September 10 your kids will want the controllers with the return of PAW Patrol World, and on September 16 we’re getting simulator RoadCraft, another May release that hasn’t proved quite such a smash.
Here’s the full list:
Out now
- I Am Your Beast (Cloud, PC, Xbox X/S) – Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
Sept 3
- Nine Sols (Xbox X/S) – Game Pass Standard
Sept 4
- Hollow Knight: Silksong (Cloud, Console, PC) – Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Cataclismo (PC) – Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
Sept 10
- PAW Patrol World (Cloud, Console, PC) – Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
Sept 16
- RoadCraft (Cloud, Xbox X/S) – Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard
Meanwhile, three games are off on September 15. They are:
- All You Need Is Help (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Wargroove 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- We Love Katamari Reroll+ Royal Reverie (Cloud, Console, and PC)
