You can secretly play over 20 unlisted games on Xbox Game Pass for PC

crysis remastered — (Image credit: Crytek)

Xbox Game Pass for PC is an awkward, beautiful beast. It consistently manages to impress me with its ever-growing games line-up, while at the same time baffling me with its obscure user experience.

Take the EA Play integration, for instance, which gives you access to dozens of games from EA's subscription service. Not only can you not search for specific EA games within Xbox Game Pass for PC, but I recently discovered that there are actually over 20 EA Play games not listed at all in the Xbox app that you can play with an Xbox Game Pass PC subscription.

It's a pretty good bunch too! The headliner has to be Crysis Remastered, which came out last year, but among them you'll also find Worms W.M.D (in my eyes, the silliest and most complete Worms game of them all) as well as the greatest Battlefield game, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (complete with the Vietnam expansion).

There's also a solid selection of indie titles including Superhot, Trine 2, The Sexy Brutale, and even something for the videogame historians in the form of Ultima Underworld 1 and 2.

Having trawled through the EA Play catalogue, here are all the EA Play games not listed in the Xbox app that Game Pass subscribers can play:

Aragami
Bard's Tale Trilogy
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Beholder
Capsized
Crysis Remastered
Diluvion
Dungeons of Dredmor
Epistory
Legrand Legacy
Mini Metro
The Sexy Brutale
Peggle Nights
Rebel Galaxy
Superhot
This War of Mine
Torchlight
Torchlight 2
Trine
Trine 2: Complete Story
Ultima Underworld 1
Ultima Underworld 2
Worms W.M.D.

This list might quietly grow too, so be sure to check into the EA Play app, then set the filter to only show EA Play membership games to see if any new surprises pop up.

Looking at that list, it’s tempting to chirpily conclude that ‘Xbox Game Pass for PC is just the gift that keeps on giving’ and wish everyone a Happy Cyber Monday, but it's yet another indicator of what a weird, unwieldy experience it is. The Xbox app feels like one of those arcade claw machines filled with really great goodies that you need to brute-force, kick, or attempt several times before getting your prize. Or in this case, a clunky claw machine that drops your prize into another clunky claw machine (EA Play) through which you can eventually get your goodies.

I want to love you Xbox Game Pass, but sometimes you make it so hard...

Robert is a freelance writer and chronic game tinkerer who spends many hours modding games then not playing them, and hiding behind doors with a shotgun in Hunt: Showdown. Wishes to spend his dying moments on Earth scrolling through his games library on a TV-friendly frontend that unifies all PC game launchers.