Xbox Game Pass Confirms New Day One Game for Early 2025

Xbox Game Pass Confirms New Day One Game for Early 2025

Key Takeaways

  • Eternal Strands has been confirmed as a day-one Xbox Game Pass release.
  • The action-adventure with Tears of the Kingdom-like vibes and emergent gameplay is targeting an early 2025 release for the Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC.

As a dedicated gamer with years of experience under my belt and countless hours spent exploring diverse virtual worlds, I can hardly contain my excitement for the upcoming release of “Eternal Strands.” Having grown up playing classics like “Dragon Age” and “Breath of the Wild,” it’s thrilling to see the synergy between these two worlds taking shape in this exciting new adventure.


It’s officially announced that “Eternal Strands” will be available for Xbox Game Pass subscribers on its release date. This exciting new addition is set to bolster the array of captivating action-adventure games available through Xbox Game Pass.

In April 2024, Eternal Strands, a title that had been under development for about four years, was officially revealed. This game marks the first project from Yellow Brick Games, a studio based in Quebec, founded by Mike Laidlaw – a former BioWare developer and director of Dragon Age – along with some ex-Ubisoft Quebec employees. The player takes on the role of Brynn, a young magic user, who is on a mission to retrieve the cultural homeland of her people. The game is currently being developed for release on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC platforms.

It has been officially confirmed that “Eternal Strands” will be available on the Xbox Game Pass from day one. This addition to the service, scheduled for early 2025, was announced during the latest Xbox Partner Preview event, as shown in a new trailer released on October 17th. The trailer offers more than a minute of gameplay footage, including scenes of battles against colossal enemies called Ark of the Forge and Ark of the Living Flame.

Eternal Strands Promises Endless Experimentation Opportunities

The teaser emphasizes that interacting with the magic system known as “Eternal Strands” will be a key element of gameplay, offering players various abilities such as igniting grass for crowd management, freezing enemy limbs to immobilize them, constructing ice bridges, converting objects into projectiles, and merging two spells together. The trailer suggests at one point that “the world serves as your weapon,” in reference to the “cast and combine” system.

Eternal Strands Will Have Open Levels Rather Than an Open World

Recently, I stumbled upon a blog post that highlighted the incredible freedom offered in a game, where you can pin down drakes, entrap enemies within forcefield bubbles using a bow and arrow, and even cool off flaming creatures by sticking an ice wall to them with a gravity spell – all of which are demonstrations of this unique system at work. If these levels of creative control evoke memories of both Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild, it’s not just that aspect that resonates with another game – Eternal Strands. Like the recent Zelda games, Eternal Strands also allows you to scale any surface. However, unlike its open-world counterparts, Eternal Strands will not be an expansive open world, but instead a diverse assortment of open levels.

2025 isn’t just seeing the release of “Eternal Strands” as a day-one Xbox Game Pass title; the same goes for “FBC: Firebreak”, which marks Remedy Entertainment’s debut into the multiplayer realm within the universe of their game, “Control”. It seems 2025 is gearing up to be an impressive year for Xbox Game Pass, with expectations that it will add games like “Avowed”, “Fable”, “South of Midnight”, and “Doom: The Dark Ages” along with other day-one releases.

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2024-10-18 17:33