Xbox Games with Gold August lineup announced

Thought they'd go out with a bang. 😞

Two games I not only don't have, but haven't even heard of. I'm happy with that.

Sad it's the end though, I've had a lot of value out of GwG.

Glad to see Blue Drift on here. That was on my wishlist. Kinda surprised they didn't try to go out on a bigger bang. But then again most of those "big titles" are on Game Pass anyways.

Two more games I don't have. I will truly miss GwG.

While not all titles have been winners, it has introduced me to many hidden gems.

My favorite recent moment of time as an Xbox fan had me looking forward to things all of the time. I looked forward to new Games With Gold announcements. And I looked forward to new backwards compatibility announcements. And now those days are gone.

Love racing games so this is a cool last GwG offering in my opinion

At least GWG is going out on a relatively high note, those are both very solid games.

It mostly died when they removed the 360 games, but at least 360 gwg started with Fable 3 and went out with Portal 2, an awesome game! Oh well the end of an era, let's hope the future has some good things for us.

Skullinane said:Yes I miss all the backwards-compatible announcements too, I loved it and supported it best I could by buying, for example almost every single original Xbox backwards compatible game they released which was easy as all the classic Star Wars and Splinter Cells were in there... But the average gamer just plays cod so I understand why Xbox is desperately buying Activision and ended the backwards-compatible program. It's sad, but it's just business I guess.
My 13 year old nephew only plays games like overwatch 2 and cod type games for hours on end, I tried to branch him out to games like Hunt Showdown and he actually played all the way through Murder House a great single player horror game... But without badgering the average younger gamer just stays on the basic popular games. Is this good or bad???

Really going out with a "meh" there, aren't we?! hahaha I never minded or complained about the free games but glad to see it go.

I was hoping it would go out with a huge drop, like severa games and/or something high profile. But I should have known better. They want GWG to sail off into obscurity so people are excited about Gamepass Core instead.

Still the games look decent. I really, really liked the trailers for Blue Fire, but the reviews were mid. So while I grabbed it on a sale while back, it's still sitting in my backlog. Initial drfit look like a fun arcade racer with a novel control scheme. Probably worth messing with for a few hours as well.

Perfect choices, IMO.

Wouldn't feel right for them to go out with bangers after being subpar for 2 years.

Fade away…

byndfitality said:Yeah I mean dude if you don't have an Xbox one after this many years that's on you not microsoft

Xbox has set the bar very low for themselves with GWG and they absolutely nailed the finish with the underwhelming showing that we’ve become accustomed to, so you can’t argue that Xbox isn’t consistent with their efforts with GWG.

byndfitality said:Not everybody can upgrade for various reasons, mine being highly metered bandwidth where I live and the fact that games and updates on new systems are too big :(

Very disappointing sending off to games for gold. They should of let users pick a game or something interesting for the final month

So now that the service is over do we get to keep all of the games?

Thank you microsoft for all these games in xbox live gold. I liked that they mostly gave small and unknown games. And the fact that people were indignant at small and unknown games - I considered this the wrong decision. You will always buy large games and play them. Games that had a lot of ads - you will play them. And there is simply no place for small games. They get lost in the flow of large projects and are forgotten about. It's good that now there is XGPU for such games

At least now when I see a game I am thinking about buying I won’t need to worry about it being GwG next month.

This means we won’t be getting Forza Horizon 4 as GwG, so I better look at for a deal before the impending delisting.

RIP GwG, and this blog post I started over 10 years ago - HolyHalfDead's blog post - Games with Gold (Final update August 2023)

Blue Fire looks interesting and i'll definitely play it