Six Xbox Game Pass Titles To Dive Into During The Holidays 2025

Whether you're gaming solo or socially, we've got plenty of options for you this season

The soft crackle of a fire in the fireplace. Snow gently falling outside your window. The twinkling of festive lights throughout the neighborhood. The only thing that could complete this image is the glow of your PC's RGB lights and a cup of hot cocoa.

The holidays are typically seen as an opportunity to reconnect with your family… but for me, they're also about reconnecting with my favorite games. With Xbox Game Pass, I can take my game collection everywhere I go this season—here are six games I'll be spending the holidays with.

I devoured every episode of the Fallout TV series when it came out. After it wrapped up, all I wanted to do was head back into the Wasteland and explore to the dulcet sounds of The Ink Spots. Set in an irradiated Boston, you'll build settlements, kill Deathclaws, and befriend a cast of compelling companions, like our synth buddy Nick Valentine. To me, all of that is secondary to wandering the vast open world, discovering secrets and creatively placed skeletons.

Fallout 4 might be 10 years old, but it's still a multi-award-winning game that puts you in an immense and varied world. As we said in our review, "It's a highly customizable RPG in a world that's packed full of things to do. Its systems are intricate, and invite you to tailor them to your liking. When you do, it can be wonderfully satisfying. Fallout 4 willfully trades immersion for an enjoyable, freeform sandbox of possibilities." You'll be walking the Freedom Trail into the new year.

Move. Destroy. Level up. Repeat. Boiled down, that's the recipe for maybe 70%* of all video games. After Vampire Survivors came on the scene in late 2021, the formula was clarified and refined. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor could have been a copycat, hitting the right notes and moving on, but as our review says, "it's a really confident fleshing out of the structure and features around that excellent core gameplay loop, and the result is that a roguelike I already lost nearly 100 hours to before this final update has its claws firmly in me all over again." We gave it a review score of 90, placing it among the highest rated games this year.

You play as a dwarf miner with auto-firing weapons and the goal to grab resources, upgrade your gear and smash through hordes of aliens. Unlike the wide-open spaces of Vampire Survivors, you can carve out pathways where your enemies can't follow. With a rich set of

Source: PC Gamer