If you’re an Xbox Game Pass subscriber then you’ve probably experienced the frustration of seeing one of your favourite games leave the service before you’ve had the chance to finish it. Take Grand Theft Auto 5, for example, which caught people by surprise when it left Game Pass after just six months earlier this year. It’s a problem that keeps cropping up, and one of the only drawbacks to what is an otherwise excellent subscription service. After revealing some of the titles coming to Game Pass in the first half of May, Microsoft also confirmed which games would be leaving the service on May 15. This includes the excellent narrative-driven adventure game Norco, which has a whopping 96% Recommendation score on OpenCritic.
Norco is described as a sci-fi Southern Gothic point and click narrative adventure.
Featuring stylish art direction and lots of superb puzzles, the game is set in the “sinking suburbs and industrial swamps of Louisiana’s petrochemical hinterlands”.
Publisher Raw Fury explains more: “Your brother Blake has gone missing in the aftermath of your mother’s death.
“In the hopes of finding him, you must follow a fugitive security cyborg through the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orleans.”
The game has a number of perfect scores on Metacritic, with reviewers praising the writing, atmosphere and characters.
If you haven’t already then you should definitely play Norco before it leaves Xbox Game Pass. It’s not the longest game in the world, so two weeks should give you plenty of time to see it through to the end.
Other games leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 15 include Eastern Exorcist, Eiyuden Chronicle Rising, Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2, Ghostlore, Just Cause 4 Reloaded, SD Gundam Battle Alliance and Supraland Six Inches Under.
Eiyuden Chronicle Rising is an interesting one, as it was developed as a stretch goal for the recently released RPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.
Eiyuden Chronicle is considered a spiritual successor to the Suikoden series from the PSOne and PS2 era.
While there are quite a few games leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 15, the good news is that there are plenty of new titles to replace them.
This includes Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Little Kitty, Big City, Kona II: Brume, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition and Have a Nice Death, which is out now.
