Gaming: Celebrate Lunar New Year With These Xbox Game Pass Options 2026

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We're welcoming the Lunar New Year. It's past the winter solstice, so days are getting longer, and you've got a little more sunlight to work with during your waking hours. It's tradition not to clean during the first day of the Lunar New Year, lest you sweep out your luck. That means you'll have some time on your hands for gaming. Here are six games to play while maintaining your luck for the year.

Entering a new year, everyone has their list of most hotly anticipated games (here's ours), but Balatro is the perfect example of a Cinderella story that comes out of nowhere. A single developer tinkering around, trying to learn how to build a game, resulted in a smash hit that won Best Indie Game and was nominated for Ultimate Game of the Year in 2024's Golden Joystick Awards.

This roguelike deckbuilder tasks you with racking up absurdly high point totals by whatever means necessary, whether that's filling your hand with multiples of the same card or using special math powers conferred on you by your collection of Jokers. As we said in our review, "This is an absolute triumph." If you haven't tried it out, you owe it to yourself. No game nails "numbers go up makes brain go brrrrr" quite like Balatro.

Source: PC Gamer