10/06/2026
Every week, we make sure to highlight the subscription free games that are now available!
FOR THOSE WITH PLAYSTATION PLUS ESSENTIAL…
There are multiple games now available for the month of October!
First up is the third-person shooter “Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2!” Set in a block-shaped world, team up with other players and defend the earth from an assortment of deadly, intergalactic creatures. Complete missions, customize your equipment, use powerful weapons, and more!
Get ready to race in “F1 25!” Choose your favorite racer and compete for glory in a series of races in the Formula One World Championship!
And finally, there is the first-person tactical shooter “Hunt: Showdown 1896.” Take control of a bounty hunter in the deadly backwaters and take up several bounties to hunt down dangerous to hunt dangerous monsters and creatures in the region alongside other players.
COMING TO X-BOX GAME PASS…
Defend the earth in the third-person shooter “Gears of War: E-Day!” Set fourteen years before the events of the first game, follow Dom and Marcus as they try to help save the world from deadly monsters and creatures emerging from the depths.
Then there is the puzzle-platformer “Echo Weaver!” Explore a powerful time anomaly and try to uncover secrets across different locations in order to stop it… available October 8th.
Also available on the eighth is the adventure title “Forever Ago.” Follow an elderly man that has just suffered a massive stroke, as he goes on a road trip to seek redemption. Explore different locations, remember old memories, and meet different characters.
THE FOLLOWING GAMES ARE SCHEDULED TO LEAVE GAME PASS ON OCTOBER 15TH:
• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Crime Scene Cleaner
• Donut Country
• Evil West
• Nova Roma
• Pacific Drive
• Superball
• The Casting of Frank Stone
FOR NINTENDO SWITCH ONLINE
There are no new games for Nintendo Switch Online this week.
NEW ON STEAM
In the simulator “Hazard Ready,” work as an industrial worker across several sites and complete different tasks in order to help fix multiple locations in order to help ensure they’re safe for other workers.
AND FROM THE EPIC GAMES STORE
The horror-adventure “Out of Sight!” Take control of a blind young girl that can only see through her teddy bear’s eyes and try to escape captors from a dark mansion. Solve puzzles, avoid dangers, and uncover a dark secret about the mansion’s past. The game will be available for one week from Thursday October 8th through the fifteenth.
Also available for one week starting on the eighth is the city-builder “Terrascape!” Build your own kingdom in a massive fantasy, medieval-inspired world and complete unique challenges and tasks along the way!
- Bryan Hultgren
