Following that, tomorrow, on September 20, Recreate Games’ multiplayer party title Party Animals will launch, and it will be available day one on Game Pass for cloud, console, and PC. The day after that, on September 21, Payday 3 will see its global release, and it, too, will be a day one Game Pass release on cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.

Later in the month, on September 29, Geometric Interactive and Annapurna Interactive’s puzzle adventure title COCOON will be available day one via Game Pass on console and PC. Meanwhile, early next month, on October 3, open world action RPG Gotham Knights will come to the service via cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S. On the same day, Paradox Interactive’s turn-based tactics title The Lamplighters League will join Game Pass’ library on the day of its release via cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S.

Additionally, a 10-hour early access trial of EA Sports FC 24 will also be available to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers via EA Play on September 22.

The development team behind Party Animals has also grown since the demo was originally released. According to the dev log, there are now three times as many people involved in making the game compared to the team’s size when the demo was released.

Aside from talking about development, the post also shows some of the progress made on Party Animals, namely new characters, and revamped designs. The log also reveals that some characters that might not make it into Party Animals‘ final release: Penguin, Godzilla, and Toucan. The reasoning is either a conflict of art styles or the animal designs not working with Party Animals‘ gameplay.

The redesigns of characters also introduce a lot more in the way of minor details. The goal, according to the post, was to make the fur look like actual fur on a small animal rather than fur on a stuffed toy. The redesigned animals also now have mouths, which doesn’t really have much implication for gameplay.