There are a lot of games on Xbox Game Pass where you have to make important choices.
One of the reasons why Xbox Game Pass is so well-liked is that it gives its users access to games from many different types. The service is good for people who like survival games, RPGs, puzzles, and everything in between.
Choice-based games can be found in many different types of games, and Microsoft’s membership service has a lot of them. These games give you choices to make over and over again, and the things you choose and actions you take should have a big effect on the story or world around you. Game Pass has a lot of these kinds of adventures, but these are the best ones.
Grand Theft Auto 5
One of the most well-known games in the world is Grand Theft Auto 5. It’s a great open-world action-adventure game that deserves its fame. The story is about how the lives of three thieves are connected. The three people break the law together, and they do a lot of high-risk heists and other jobs.
You need to plan and set up these heists before you can do them. Part of the process is picking your group and how you want to do things. Your choice has a big effect on how the whole task goes. You might be sorry that you chose a cheaper partner.
Hitman: World Of Assassination
Hitman: World of Assassination is not just one game. It’s a collection of the three books that started coming out in 2016. In each one, you have to decide a lot of things. But the story doesn’t change because of these decisions. Instead, they change how you play the game.
How you deal with your targets drives all of your decisions. The game is so open that there are many ways to kill them. You can sneak through an area, poison a target, and leave without being seen, or you can just run up to them and shoot them in the head. You have the full freedom to choose.
Beacon Pines
Beacon Pines is an interesting game that takes place in a book. You are both the person reading the book and the important character in it. As the second, you walk around and look at different places, sometimes finding keywords. During certain parts of the book, the reader can use these words to move the story along.
Sometimes, you can choose more than one word to add to the story. Which one you choose affects the scenes that come next. So, it’s kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure book in the form of a video game. The story it tells is about a deer-like boy who tries to figure out what’s going on in the town named in the title.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
The Assassin’s Creed games aren’t known for having many options. But Odyssey starts with a big one because you have to choose whether to play as Alexios or Kassandra. Either way, your character is a soldier who works during the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece.
Even though you are involved in that big fight, your main goal is to stop the strange Cult of Kosmos and get your family back together. To do that, you have to get into a lot of close-quarters fights and climb a lot of buildings. Also, you have to make a lot of choices that have a big effect on how the game goes as a whole.
Tell Me Why
Tell Me Why is a story adventure that puts you in the roles of two brothers and sisters. During the main parts of the game, they are both young adults, but they are still dealing with a traumatic event from their youth. To really get over it, they need to find out what really happened that night.
During the story, you make several important choices that affect how the brother and sister get along. Which ending you get depends on how close they are at the end of the story.
Weird West
Weird West is an isometric role-playing game (RPG) with fun gameplay and a weird story. In this story, you play as a number of different people, each of whom has their own story and journey. No matter who you are directing at the time, you have to make decisions in the game.
You can choose between two options that change the story, and you also have a lot of options for how to play. Do you want to go unnoticed? Should you go back to a place at night to see if anyone is sleeping? Is there a way out of a problem that the game doesn’t tell you about? All of these give you another way to customize your experience.
Pentiment
In Pentiment, you play as a man named Andreas Maler who lived in the 1600s. He is mostly an artist, but he also works as an investigator as he looks into a few deaths during the game. This means you’ll have to talk to a lot of people and gather a lot of proof. When it comes to the second part, you have to make a lot of speech choices, so choice is a big part of it.
How many things you can say depends in part on other choices you make at the beginning of the story game. This is because you get to choose Andreas’ attitude and background early on. Your decisions impact your future choices.
Wasteland 3
Wasteland 3 is a turn-based RPG where the player has a lot of freedom. You play as a Ranger Team from Arizona that finds itself in a post-apocalyptic Colorado that is basically a cold wasteland.
As you walk around the terrible place, you meet a lot of people. During these times, you have to make important choices. Your decisions can have a big effect on how you get along with these people and how the story goes as a whole. What’s nice about this game is that, unlike some other choice-based games, even the best choices can lead to bad things and sadness.
Dishonored 2
At the beginning of Dishonored 2, you have to choose whether to play as Corvo or Emily. The character you don’t choose is then turned to stone by the witch Delilah Copperspoon, who also takes over the whole city of Dunwall. The goal is to stop her and save the other person who could be the main character.
The only decision in the game is which character to play as. In fact, almost everything you do in the action-adventure game is a choice, because you can play it however you want. And the way you play has effects on the game. After all, the amount of chaos you cause in the game has a direct effect on the world and story. During the adventure, you also decide what will happen to a number of people.
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season
The Walking Dead by Telltale is on Game Pass, and it includes the first season, which is probably the best of the bunch. It’s a point-and-click story game with quick-time events, different ways to talk, and a lot of choices.
You do all of these things as a man named Lee. At the beginning of the game, Lee meets a little girl named Clementine. With the help of a few people they meet along the way, the two main characters try to stay alive in Georgia, which has been taken over by zombies. It makes for an exciting journey.
As Dusk Falls
As Dusk Falls is all about making decisions. Since it’s an interactive story, the only way to play is to make choices and sometimes take part in quick-time events. Your choices completely change how the story goes from there.
The story is about two families whose lives change on a single night in an Arizona motel. The story is a grown-up one that is full of sadness and tragedy. The serious themes are treated well, in part because the writing is so good and the voice actors are so good.
The Outer Worlds
In this action RPG, people have moved to a new star system and started living there. Still, some people are still in deep sleep, so you need to find the tools to wake them up.
During your mission, you go to a lot of different places and meet many different people. Their views of you change all the time depending on what choices you make during the game. You can help the people or groups you like and hurt the ones you don’t. In the end, what you do will have changed the world you just started to settle.
Fable Anniversary
There are a lot of great fantasy RPGs, but the Fable series is one of the most famous. And the original game or the Anniversary remake might be the best version of Fable. You start out as a child who is taught to be a hero.
But in this world, the word “hero” doesn’t always mean a good person. How good you are depends on the choices you make. You could go around brutally killing people who get in your way if you wanted to. Or, you could be kind to a lot of people, even the ones who have hurt you. The way your story goes depends a lot on these moral decisions.
Dragon Age: Origins
All of the main Dragon Age games are included in Xbox Game Pass, which is nice. The first one, on the other hand, is probably the best of the bunch. In the original Flappy Bird game, you joined the Grey Wardens and became a key player in the war against the Darkspawn and the Archdemon.
Whenever you get into a big fight like that, you have to make a lot of hard decisions. But the choices aren’t just a part of the main story. The side quests also give you a lot of options. And almost all of them have an effect on how your friends see you.
The Edler Scrolls 5: Skyrim
Skyrim is an open-world game with a deep character maker, so you have to make important choices right away. Once you decide what you’ll look like, you can start your journey, in which you have to stop a dragon from destroying the world.
You have to make a lot of other choices along the way, both in the major story and in the game’s many side quests. You can choose where to live and who to marry, among other things. So, freedom is a big part of the experience as a whole.
Prey (2017)
In the FPS game Prey, you find yourself in a nightmare. You are one of the last humans left on a space station full of dangerous aliens called Typhon.
Once you understand your situation, it’s clear that you can’t let the slimy creatures reach Earth or any other world. So, you have to deal with them any way you can. It’s not easy to get rid of the Typhon because you have to do a lot of things. Along the way, you meet different people, and what you do and choose to do with them has a direct effect on how the story ends.
Frostpunk
Most choice-based games are story-driven adventures, but Frostpunk isn’t one of them. This game is a simulation about building a city, but it doesn’t have much of a story. There is, however, a story that sets up the game.
In this version of the 19th century, a volcanic winter caused much of the world to freeze over. This, of course, did a lot of damage to human society. You don’t have to save everyone, but you do have to build and take care of a city where people can stay safe. Along the way, you’ll have to make a lot of tough choices. Not everyone will like every choice you make, but it could save the lives of your people.
Fallout: New Vegas
The plot of Fallout: New Vegas begins with a simple plan to get payback. You want to find the person who abandoned you and get back what he took from you. But you end up in the middle of a fight over who runs New Vegas and the Wasteland around it.
As you might expect from a choose-your-own-adventure RPG, you have a lot of control over how everything ends. A lot of it depends on how you deal with the different groups that live in the Wasteland. You start out on even terms with everyone, but in the end, you have to decide who your friends are and who your enemies are.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
The Mass Effect Legendary Edition has the first three games in the series. Together, they tell a long story about Commander Shepard and the rest of the galaxy’s fight against a race of robots called The Reapers.
You shape the world because you make choices that affect everything in it. For example, you can wipe out a whole race or decide what will happen to several important people. This kind of power is what you have. But not every choice is as important as those. You can also choose your romantic partner and the people you go on tasks with.
