It’s a Sprint: Games Leaving Game Pass April 30th 2025 Edition
Thirsty Suitors by Outerloop Games and Annapurna Interactive
Moving forward, I’m going to make an effort to be more selective about the titles I decide to play from these lists. This won’t affect you, dear reader, but I wanted to take a moment in this introduction to explain why.
I still firmly believe that you can (and should) make time to play everything. However, a wave of big titles is about to hit, and every game that I’m only kinda sorta interested in that I choose to skip is potentially dozens of hours I can spend lifting up projects from smaller developers. I feel I’ve done an admirable job in that department with the interviews I’ve conducted over the last six months, but now that I finally have an active Keymailer account, I should probably start reviewing them, as well. No promises–but I’m really going to try.
This shouldn’t deter you from making your own aspirational list and crossing them off one at a time with a fat, red marker. This only applies to me and is the definition of a “do as I say, not as I do.”
With that disclaimer out of the way, here is everything scheduled to leave Game Pass at the end of April:
Have A Nice Death
Metacritic Score: 81
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 9-66.5 hours
Kona II: Brume
Metacritic Score: 79
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 8-11.5 hours
Sniper Elite 5
Metacritic Score: 77
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 10.5-42 hours
The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Metacritic Score: 58
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 11.5-16 hours
Thirsty Suitors
Metacritic Score: 80
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 7.5-13 hours
The Rewinder
Metacritic Score: NA (72% User Rating on HowLongToBeat)
Playtime estimate according to HowLongToBeat: 4.5-7 hours
Sniper Elite 5 is amazing. It plays like a simplified Metal Gear Solid V across some massive, complex maps. However, it’s very long and the install size is huge (don’t be fooled by the 53GB listed in the Xbox app, the updates have ballooned it to north of 100).
I’ve always loved the look of Have a Nice Death, but I’m currently playing Blue Prince (available on both PlayStation Plus and Game Pass) and one Roguelike at a time is enough for me–even if each of their takes on the genre are completely different.
If I decide to immediately disregard the promises I made in my opening monologue, it’ll be to play Thirsty Suitors. In Thirsty Suitors, you confront the protagonist’s past lovers through turn-based battles. It seems very Scott Pilgrim and even includes a sprinkling of skateboarding.
I’ll be back soon to report on what PlayStation Plus is losing in May (the article is basically written, Sony hasn’t released their list, yet). While you wait, you should check out my new review for Merchant 64.
Enjoy the rest of your week!