One of the best recent Star Wars games is coming to Xbox Game Pass this week. Microsoft’s subscription cycles through new titles each month, adding new ones while removing others. These can vary from beloved indies to the biggest AAA titles, offering plenty of variety for its subscribers.
April 25 will see Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – which launched almost a full year ago – joining the Game Pass roster on console and PC as part of the game’s publisher, Electronic Arts’ own EA Play subscription. Considering how big of a title Jedi: Survivor is, it’s surprising that this wasn’t advertised earlier in the month when Microsoft announced its main Game Pass line-up for April, but considering how well-received the title has been – albeit after a rocky launch on some platforms – it’s certainly a win for subscribers regardless.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor picked up five years after Cal Kestis’ journey in Jedi: Fallen Order, with the former Padawan now a more experienced Jedi Knight, and its gameplay reflected this, with players already starting the game with many of the abilities they learned in the first game while learning more as the game went on. The sequel also offered greater lightsaber combat than before, building upon the challenging yet satisfying combat of Fallen Order with new lightsaber forms and techniques – including wielding a blaster – to tackle a variety of different enemy types.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is already accessible to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers thanks to its partnership with EA Play, so come April 25, players should be able to play Cal Kestis’ complete story to date. Jedi: Survivor feels like the second part of a trilogy, and earlier this year, EA also confirmed a third game in the Star Wars Jedi series was in development, sadly at the same time as it shut down work on a potential Mandolorian-led title, with many of the developers who were working on that title being moved onto Jedi 3 instead.
There is currently no release date for the next Star Wars Jedi game, or even a trailer, but with development clearly underway and EA calling it a priority, hopefully, players will get more information about the title soon. Fortunately, with Game Pass and EA Play now offering up both of the previous games in the series, PC and Xbox players will have plenty of reason to catch up before then.