April’s new Xbox Game Pass arrivals give you Lego racing, Lara Croft and a Lil Gator. Subscribers can play the Mario Kart-like starting on Wednesday, the trilogy-wrapping on April 11 and the charming stop-motion adventure game on April 16.
, launched in May 2023, lets developer Vision Concepts (known for the NBA 2K and WWE 2K series) take the reins from Travelers’ Tales to create its first Lego game. We were quickly pulled in by its charming vehicle transformations and quirky fun in a game that draws equally from Mario Kart and .
Our gripes (no quick way to restart races and a suspicious nudge toward microtransactions) will be easier to see past when you can download it for free with your Game Pass subscription. will be available to Game Pass members on April 3 for cloud and Xbox consoles.
wraps up Lara Croft’s Survivor Trilogy origin story, which rebooted the series as an Uncharted-esque cinematic epic. Help Croft traverse jungles, caverns and ruins (with tombs!) as she battles the mysterious and all-powerful organization Trinity and completes her transformation into the character known and loved from previous iterations. You can play it on April 11 on cloud, Xbox consoles and PCs.
is a quirky adventure game made in the spirit of old-school Sierra or LucasArts games — with a unique visual twist. Harold works as a lab assistant in a sunken spaceship trapped underwater 250 years after fleeing a doomed Earth. But the game’s stop-motion digital animation steals the show, appropriately illustrating the story’s captivatingly gloomy sci-fi premise.
Developer Slow Bros. created handmade characters, environments and objects, which were scanned and animated digitally, leading to a stand-out old-school motif. will be available on April 16 on cloud, PC and Xbox Series X/S.
Also available for Game Pass members in April are the time-slowing action-puzzler (available Tuesday for cloud, console and PC), the innocently family-friendly open-world adventure (April 4: cloud / console / PC), (April 4: cloud / PC / Xbox Series X/S) and surreal detective game (April 9: cloud / console).
Leaving Xbox Game Pass this month are , , , , and . They’re available until April 15.