Summary
EA Sports FC 24is now available onXbox Game Pass Ultimate. This is the 11th new title to reach Microsoft’s subscription service in June 2024 and the 81stXbox Game Pass Ultimateaddition since the turn of the year.
After developing officially licensedFIFAgames for three decades, EA decided to end its partnership with the top governing body of association football in 2022. Following the release ofFIFA 23, the company opted to leverage its football sim expertise to make a new series, unencumbered by FIFA’s rising licensing demands.EA Sports FC 24is the first entry in that new franchise, originally released in late September 2023.
Nine months later, the football sim made its way to Xbox Game Pass, which added it on June 25. As is the case with all EA releases on the service,EA Sports FC 24requires the EA Play add-on, which is only available to PC Game Pass and Ultimate-tier members. In terms of sheer popularity, the football sim is one of this year’s biggest additions to the subscription service; althoughEA Sports FC 24physical sales were down compared toFIFA 23, its overall commercial momentum was still strong enough to make it one of the best-selling games of 2023.
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Returning title that was last available in February 2023
Day-one release (Xbox)
🆕EA Sports FC 24
PC Game Pass and UItimate tiers only
Specifically, a recent Statistastudyindicated thatEA Sports FC 24was the tenth best-selling game in the U.S. last year, behindStar Wars Jedi: Survivorand immediately ahead ofStarfield. The game launched to somewhat mixed reviews, as underlined by its OpenCritic recommendation rate of 59%. User impressions were similarly polarizing, largely due to the perceived lack of improvements compared toFIFA 23and the game’s aggressive monetization. The fandom felt strongly enough about those issues thatEA Sports FC 24even ended up being review-bombedshortly following its launch.
Be that as it may, gamers interested in a realistic football sim currently don’t have many fully licensed alternatives to choose from. The only big-budget rival that’s presently on offer is Konami’seFootball 2024, but that free-to-play game also received mixed reviews at launch from both critics and fans alike. Alternatively,FIFA 23is still available to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members.
Three more titles will be added to the service before the end of the month, starting with the June 26 arrival of theSteamWorld Digseries.Robin Hood – Sherwood Buildersis then set to debut a day later, shortly beforeXbox Game Pass loses five games on June 30.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
