Murderer’s Creed Origins, one among the very best Ubisoft maps video games of the trendy period, is coming to Sport Move. However…not anytime quickly. Microsoft says it’ll hit the games-on-demand service “within the subsequent two months.” Within the meantime, the library is getting beefed up by a lineup that’s frankly underwhelming. Right here’s the whole lot coming to Sport Move within the coming weeks.

April 19

• F1 (Cloud)
• Want For Velocity Sizzling Pursuit Remastered, through EA Play (Cloud)
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Cloud, Console, PC)

April 26

• 7 Days to Die (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Analysis and Destroy (Console, PC)

April 28

• Bugsnax (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Unsouled (Console, PC)

And the next video games can be unavailable as of April 30:

• Cricket 19 (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Outlast 2 (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Secret Neighbor (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Streets of Rage 4 (Cloud, Console, PC)

The most important information right here is the addition of Bugsnax, which developer Younger Horses introduced final week. (Bugsnax’s free Isle of Bigsnax growth comes out the identical day the eminently memeable puzzler hits Sport Move.) Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is a pleasant puzzle recreation about flipping off the federal authorities, and I’m curious to see what Unsouled, an action-RPG with moody pixel artwork, is all about, whereas perpetually passing on the horror recreation 7 Methods to Die.

But it surely’s laborious to not discover a pattern right here. Final yr—and, to a lesser extent, the yr earlier than—Microsoft packed the Sport Move library with can’t-miss video games, each blockbusters and indie gems alike. The technique stoked staggering will increase to the service’s subscription base, the kind of double-digit development you solely see with well-marketed movie and TV streaming providers (although Microsoft famous, in an earnings report, that Sport Move missed the corporate’s goal final yr).

To this point, the Sport Move additions of 2022 have been largely hit and miss. For each lineup fronted by a Guardians of the Galaxy or a Demise’s Door, there’s one other that provides little or, even worse, kicks off among the finest video games.

On the plus aspect, no less than this implies extra time to shine off the ol’ backlog.