Lunar New Year Game Pass picks to play
We’re welcoming the Lunar New Year: days are getting longer after the winter solstice, and tradition holds that you shouldn’t clean on the first day so you don’t sweep away your luck. With a little extra daylight and a bit more free time, here are six Game Pass games to try while you keep your luck intact.
Balatro is a Cinderella story—a single developer learning to build a game produced a smash hit that won Best Indie Game and earned a Golden Joystick nomination. This roguelike deckbuilder asks you to chase absurdly high point totals by any means, from stacking identical cards to using Joker-granted math powers; as the review put it, “numbers go up makes brain go brrrrr.” Mortal Kombat 1 is a soft reboot of the long-running series, offering an eight-hour cinematic story mode to catch up on klassic characters and a pick-up-and-play fighting experience that remains accessible even if you’re not a combo master.