Xbox Game Pass Drops Free Sequel To Critically Acclaimed 2020 Game

Xbox Game Pass has dropped a Day 1 sequel to a critically acclaimed game from 2020, available now for all users to play.

Xbox Game Pass continues to be the service that keeps on giving, with plenty of new games hitting the 'all-you-can-play' service each week.

With AAA hits like Forza Horizon 6 and Elite Dangerous coming to the service over this month, Xbox has also spaced out these drops with smaller indie titles for players to enjoy.

This week it's Call of the Elder Gods, a narrative puzzle adventure with Lovecraftian elements, and also a sequel to 2020’s critically acclaimed Call of the Sea.

You may be familiar with Call of the Sea, not just because it's a great game, but also because it had a Day 1 release on Xbox Game Pass back in 2020.

Call of the Elder Gods picks up after the events of the first game, with players returning to the story as Professor Harry Everhart, who journeys to the far corners of the Earth to unearth ancient horrors.

That's typically how Lovecraftian adventures seem to go, anyway.

"All is not well at Miskatonic University. Professor Harry Everhart tries to ignore the shadows flitting at the corners of his vision, while student Evangeline Drayton is haunted with impossible dreams of an artefact uncovered a decade ago. In their search for answers, the pair will uncover revelations more ancient than anyone could have imagined," reads the blurb on Call of the Elder Gods.

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"Follow Harry Everhart and Evangeline Drayton as they search for the truth about their missing loved ones and come face-to-face with beings beyond their understanding. Inspired by H P Lovecraft's 'The Shadow out of Time', Call of the Elder Gods features a fully voice-acted story of grief, family, and sanity, starring returning talents Yuri Lowenthal (Spider-Man, Arcane, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) and Cissy Jones (Firewatch, Starfield, Baldur’s Gate III)."

Call Of The Elder Gods Is A Great Puzzle Game To Check Out On Xbox Game Pass This Week

Like the first game, Call of the Elder Gods features a load of observation-based puzzles to complete throughout your adventure, where you must scour through different environments for clues. You'll be able to swap between playing as Harry and Evangeline to solve complex, multi-part problems across time and space.

If you're as bad at puzzle games as I am, you'll also be able to choose different difficulty levels to tweak how tricky these puzzles are, adding toggleable hints, icons, and journal entries to help complete them.

"Harry and Evangeline’s journey takes them from the firelit libraries of a New England mansion to the red sands of the Australian outback, through frozen wastelands and otherworldly cities out of time, all stunningly rendered in Unreal Engine 5 and featuring a soundtrack by multi-award-winning returning composer Eduardo De La Iglesia," the game description adds, teasing some of the sights and sounds that are present in the game.

Call of the Elder Gods is available now on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.

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