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Best Multiplayer Games On Xbox Game Pass

Xbox Game Pass features a trove of multiplayer titles, both competitive and co-op. These are the best of them.

The Netflix of video games, Xbox Game Pass has hundreds of titles (including many Xbox One exclusives) on its service to download and play for subscribers. That is an overwhelming number of choices that could easily paralyze those bad at making decisions.

And if you’re looking for multiplayer games in particular, whether co-op or competitive, the selection doesn’t become much less daunting. Xbox Game Pass has a wide range of games covering nearly every potential taste or style — but if you’re looking for the absolute gems among its multiplayer selection, you’re in luck. Today, we’re curating the best multiplayer offerings that the service has to offer.

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Grand Theft Auto Online

There is nothing quite like playing GTA Online in the gaming world. Of all the multiplayer games someone could dip into that are available on Xbox Game Pass, Grand Theft Auto Online gives players more depth and freedom to live a life outside of their own. You can start a career in crime, engage in a list of side activities bigger than your arm, build a thriving, heist-minded enterprise for you and your friends, and basically just get up to so many shenanigans.

If you loved even a fraction of the freedom that the base story of GTA V gave you, then ignoring GTA Online is a crying shame. Some multiplayer games are all about the skills you can display and competition; some are about the grind for loot. GTA Online is all about fun.

Minecraft Legends

Mojang Studios, Blackbird Interactive

Of course the latest offering from Mojang Studios would include a multiplayer option. Where vanilla Minecraft invites you and your friends to explore and build your own world and Minecraft Dungeons invites you and your friends to follow Diablo-esque questlines, Minecraft Legends provides a cooperative RTS experience for you and your buddies. Though split-screen isn’t an option, online multiplayer is baked into Legends.

You and up to three other players can take on the Piglin invasion together, gathering resources and supplying units to defend your villages. However, if co-op isn’t your style and you’d rather face off against your friends in a more competitive fashion, you can challenge each other or strangers to an RTS battle of the units as you fortify your positions and attack your opponents’.

Valheim

Iron Gate Studio, Fishlabs, Piktiv

The heavily populated survival sandbox genre has another jewel to add to its collection. Valheim is a VIKING-themed game that shouldn’t be as good as it is given how fatigued you might be with yet another survival sandbox game, but it surprises you. Its mist-shrouded world invites you to explore every hill and valley and uncover the monstrous bosses that lurk within. Building fortresses and fenced encampments is an engrossing process that can keep you occupied for hours.

And the ability to experience all that Valheim has on offer with friends more than triples the entertainment. You can gather resources for your friend’s next ingenious base idea. You can hunt down animals for armor and equip yourselves for taking on a gargantuan boss. You can attempt to build a raft and sail the sea even though you know in your gut you’re nowhere near leveled up enough for it. Even though it’s still in early access, Valheim is not a title to miss, and it’s one of the best multiplayer games on Xbox Game Pass right now.

Guilty Gear Strive

Even though Dragon Ball FighterZ departed from our Game Pass library, a new fighting game has come to take its place. The visual style of Guilty Gear Strive alone is enough to recommend it to new players, but it’s honestly one of the most enjoyable fighting titles around. As with most games in the genre, there is a bit of a learning curve as you figure out what combos to use and which characters best suit your style.

But after gaining a firmer understanding of what works (and what doesn’t), Guilty Gear Strive is the gift that keeps on giving. The story is basically just a movie, but you can create rooms for you and your friends to go toe-to-toe with each other. And let’s not forget the Tower, the hub for starting matches with online strangers. We’d recommend getting used to controls first before heading there though. As said earlier, there’s a bit of a sharp learning curve, but it’s one that easily lends itself to mastery with practice.

Hot Wheels Unleashed

It might surprise you to discover that Hot Wheels Unleashed is a hilariously good arcade racer. The realism of the Forza series is completely absent from this more kid-friendly title, but nothing beats the thrills of zooming through toy-inspired race tracks at breakneck speeds. It presents more of a challenge than you would expect, but maintains the straightforward nature of a one-way race car track.

You can hop onto tracks in both online and offline multiplayer, and to tie an even niftier bow on top of the package, local split-screen is offered across all platforms. So now two of you can race around, shuttling past other toy cars and hurtling off into the abyss after you fail to execute an impossibly tight turn.

Terraria

Terraria brings with it the joys of Minecraft in a 2D setting. With a larger emphasis on building and upgrading your character so you can take on the game’s various bosses, Terraria still comes with a delightful multiplayer component. Not only can you play it splitscreen with a friend by your side, the game also supports online multiplayer. You and your buddies can team up to build fortresses, delve deeper into the underground, and duke it out with the monsters that populate the great outdoors.

There’s a definite challenge to be found in Terraria, so playing it with friends is one of the ways you can seek to ease the difficulty. Or it can be the way you spend hours arguing over how to design your base.

Monster Hunter Rise

You know what’s better than hunting down giant monsters and engaging in absolutely dynamite battles with them once you’ve found them? Doing it with friends. Monster Hunter Rise is a more streamlined version of the Monster Hunter formula, so while you might not find the same level of depth that you would in World, it’s a lower bar for entry.

It’s way easier to invite a crew of friends to play with you and help you track down and kill a behemoth like a Crimson Glow Valstrax. Just make sure everyone has prepared for the fight. Otherwise, you could end up doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Golf With Your Friends

Blacklight Interactive, Team17

Nothing says good multiplayer fun like a game of golf. And by golf, we of course mean the sort found in Golf with Your Friends. You and several of your buddies can tee up for a delightful version of golf that has been converted into an almost cartoonish proceeding. The course set-up is out of this world rather than the staid meadows you usually see the sport played in.

Players can customize their little balls to be different colors and have them don hats or even outfits. And once you’ve dolled up your golf ball, you’re ready to participate in the most infuriating game of golf of your life. Courses seem to strive to be tough as you progress, but that only means it is as tough for your friends as it is for you.

How to make bamboo rafts in Minecraft

The Minecraft 1.20 update added several new features, including making items like a bamboo raft. This came into the game alongside the Cherry Blossom forest feature and so many other updates. If you’re looking to quickly traverse a body of water, making this particular item will aid you. Not to mention, the bamboo items do look fantastic. If you’re trying to build this item, look no further.

Thankfully, this item can be made on any edition of Minecraft, except the Education Edition, and older platforms like PS3, Xbox 360, and the Wii-U. Everyone else can make the bamboo raft if they want.

Making a bamboo raft in Minecraft

Ingredients needed

Unfortunately, other types of wood in Minecraft will not allow you to make a raft. You could make a boat, but that’s not what we’re crafting today. The bamboo raft is not material heavy, either. All you need is 5 Bamboo Planks, and you’re ready to get started.

Open up the 3×3 crafting grid, and get ready. You’ll be putting bamboo planks in the first and third slots at the top. Leave the top middle open. Then, you’ll put three of the planks across the second row, filling these up. Leave the bottom three empty as well.

This should give you the ability to craft your bamboo raft in Minecraft. There was a reason we left the blank space in the recipe, though. Open up the crafting grid again, and place your newly made raft in there with a chest next to it.

Completing this will give you a raft with a chest on it, so you can travel and take important items with you. It’s worth noting that doing it this way will only let you transport one person on the raft.

How to use a bamboo raft in Minecraft

The process is the same as when using a boat in the game. Urge it into the water by walking into it. Then, right-click or use your secondary action key, and you’ll begin cruising down the waterways of your world.

You use your movement keys, however, you’ve bound them to move along. If you didn’t put a chest on, you could also push a mob onto the raft to go along with you. Rafts and boats are essentially the same thing, so it comes down to aesthetics.

You craft and interact with them the same way, and neither has a particular advantage. Both are perfectly serviceable at traveling across water, so build whichever you fancy more. If you’d like, there are more complex, satisfying raft designs you can make in-game.

Minecraft has many things you can find and build as of patch 1.20. For example, you can go and search out Cherry Blossom groves if you want to seek out something new and pretty.

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Best RPGs for Xbox One: Supreme role-playing games

There are a host of superb role-playing titles on Microsoft’s last-generation console.

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The great thing about a games console that’s been out for as many years as the Xbox One is that it has a huge roster of games to offer up, and in the RPG genre that means a nearly endless choice between a range of epic stories, memorable characters, and interesting systems.

There have been countless superb RPGs during the life-cycle of the Xbox One and its variants, and while the Series X and Series S are on the scene now to usher in a new generation, that doesn’t change the fact that there are some classics to enjoy on the older hardware. We’ve gathered the very best right here.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Elden Ring

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Dark Souls III

Diablo 4

Dragon Quest Inquisition

Final Fantasy XV

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

Monster Hunter World

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

An amazing world to explore, full of grit and realism.

An unbelievable achievement in terms of scope, The Witcher 3 takes a promising series and turns it into an absolute blockbuster, crafting a grim and believable open world for you to explore as Geralt, hunting after his adopted daughter Ciri.

The story it tells is heartfelt and complex, but it’s the amount of detail and the characters that really stick out, with countless to meet and engaging conversations and questlines to be found around every corner. It looks and plays superbly, too.

Elden Ring

A superb map that’s host to so many frightful, challenging enemies.

Taking the intricate, challenging combat of its many games so far and moving them into a truly open world for the first time, FromSoftware has created a modern masterpiece in the form of Elden Ring, a game that should be savoured by everyone who likes a challenge.

It’s got a gorgeous map to explore full of small details and amazing locations, with frightful enemies hiding in every corner and bush, and will take a long while to master if even one of the many playstyles it offers.

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Rarely does a game give you as much freedom to approach things how you fancy as Disco Elysium.

For those who want true role-playing freedom, Disco Elysium is the answer. It’s nominally a detective game in which you’re charged with figuring out a crime, but depending on how you go about your work it can be so much more.

If you like well-written, genuinely complex dialogue that touches on philosophy and economics more than a little, you’ll be right at home here, and we hope that more people keep discovering this masterpiece over time.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

A classic for a reason, there’s no better time to try Skyrim.

A game that doesn’t need discovering is the indomitable Skyrim, still a chart-topper after a decade out in the wild, and still just as compelling on Xbox One as it was on the 360. You’ll play as the Dragonborn, with a weighty responsibility on your shoulders, and explore a huge province.

How you’ll go about that more precisely is up to you, whether you fancy becoming a mage, prefer using axes or think that the inevitable stealth archer build is the one for you this time around. Nothing else hits the spot quite like a bit of Elder Scrolls.

Dark Souls III

A superb challenge that also manages to summon an impressively deep tone of its own.

If Skryim is welcoming and populist, Dark Souls III is harsh and unforgiving in equal measure, but rewarding to such extremes that it nonetheless should wow you. In the third mainline Souls game (or fourth, depending on who you ask), you’ll once again journey through a scarred land fighting fearsome monsters.

With some of the most extreme bosses in the series and a difficulty level that rarely drops below the near-impossible, every bit of progress you make feels like a victory, and every bonfire you reach turns into a true oasis.

Diablo 4

A huge RPG that lets you control every aspect of how your character fights hordes of demons and enemies, making for a truly customisable experience.

Diablo 4 might feel like a next-gen experience but it’s also great on Xbox One, albeit with visual restrictions compared to the Series X and S. This is a smooth and carefully-built game that leads you through a dark and twisting story before unleashing the scale of its end-game content.

You can choose from multiple classes, all of which feel incredibly different to play, making for endless combinations of powers, abilities and loot, to build the perfect character for your playstyle.

Dragon Quest Inquisition

With a raft of great locations to explore with companions, this is a really excellent epic RPG.

Dragon Age shook off the small scale of its second game and opened its world up for Inquisition, offering the player huge hubs to explore and nearly countless quests to complete. While some of these are a little lacklustre, the core storyline is excellent.

You play in Inquisitor tasked with uniting the realm of Thedas under threat from a greater power, and the sense of politics and stakes is managed nicely. You’ll see a great variety of interesting sights, and visit them with some of BioWare’s best-ever companions.

Final Fantasy XV

A great story told through cinematic cut-scenes, with excellent exploration and combat.

Telling a soaring story of love and loss, Final Fantasy came screeching into the modern era in its fifteenth mainline entry, with gorgeous visuals and a road-trip vibe that really gelled with players. It’s got a huge scope and there’s loads to see, but the quiet moments are arguably its best.

Still, things do kick up a gear at times and the battle system is as close to real-time as the series has got, arguably, with loads of action and very little downtime. It’s a great place to start even if you’ve never played a Final Fantasy game.

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

A huge open world is offered up by the biggest Assassin’s Creed game yet.

A simply huge game, Valhalla takes Assassin’s Creed even further into RPG territory than Odyssey, the previous game, did. You’ll play the fierce VIKING Eivor on a journey through medieval Britain, rampaging and raiding your way to a new home.

It’s a mammoth task, with huge areas to conquer through loads of quests, but most of these are rewarding and entertaining, and the combat is as fun as ever with a little less aggressive scaling than Odyssey featured.

Monster Hunter World

There are so many monsters to hunt in this game that you’ll hardly know where to start.

Huge though it is in Japan, the Monster Hunter series was one that many players found challenging to get started with. until World arrived. It simplified some of the complex excesses and made the visuals simply splendid to incentivise new gamers.

What a success it’s been, too, with millions of players and loads of quests to pursue and new equipment to craft at every turn. The way it dishes out new encounters and areas is really Smart, and it’s also great fun to play online with friends.

How to pick your next RPG on Xbox One

There are a few main factors you might want to consider if you’re trying to work out what RPG to play on your Xbox One next. try thinking about these questions.

Are you in search of a story?

Some games on our list are hugely story-focused, but others like Monster Hunter World are a little more freeform and leave you to your own devices a bit more. If this is something that attracts you, pay attention to that urge, but if you want a story that you can really engage with, make sure to check out what people are saying about your own shortlist of options.