How To Share Game Pass On Pc

Microsoft'south Xbox Game Pass is a subscription service that offers on-demand access to dozens of games. It'due south a great value if you like to play and discover new games, and now that information technology's on PC instead of solely being a console experience, your subscription tin follow you lot from your Xbox console to your Windows desktop.

However, the expansion to Windows PCs hasn't been seamless. While an Xbox lets yous easily access your Game Pass right on the habitation dashboard, finding Game Pass games on a PC is a whole other story.

At that place are two ways to find Game Laissez passer games on PC. The first and easiest requires you to download a free app, though I call up it will exist worth the try. The 2nd method doesn't crave any boosted installations, but finding compatible Game Pass games is more cumbersome.

Starting time, get PC Game Pass

If yous already subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate, congratulations, you already accept access to PC Game Laissez passer, and you can skip this step. For everyone else, start here.

You can purchase a subscription to either PC Game Laissez passer for $9.99 per month or to Game Pass Ultimate for $fourteen.99 per calendar month. The latter is Microsoft'due south everything-in-one bundle subscription that also includes Xbox Live Gold for online multiplayer on consoles and Game Pass for Xbox One consoles, too as PC Game Pass. If you're a new subscriber, it's worth noting that you tin can get your first month of PC Game Pass for merely $i.

Access Game Laissez passer games on PC via the Xbox app

This is the easiest, virtually user-friendly method of finding Game Pass games that will play on a PC.

Start, download the new Xbox app on the Microsoft Store on either Windows ten or xi. Head to the Microsoft Shop and search for the Xbox app, or find it at this link.

Log in with your Microsoft account. Y'all'll exist treated to a more luxurious user interface than the Microsoft Store provides. Better yet, it surfaces Game Pass games on the first screen that yous see, and unlike the Store'due south default view, everything that the Xbox app displays can be played on PC.

*The dwelling screen of the GamePass app*

One time you've installed the games that you want to play, y'all can start them via the Xbox app or through a shortcut created during installation.

Admission Game Laissez passer games on PC via Microsoft Store

All of the PC games that are currently playable on Game Pass tin be institute in the Microsoft Store, which is on every Windows computer by default — no actress installation necessary.

As I mentioned before, this is the slightly more disruptive method for finding Game Laissez passer games that work on PC. I recommend downloading the Xbox app listed above, but this option works if you're in a rush and don't want to deal with a download.

Open the Microsoft Store.

*"My Library" shows you a list of all your apps and can sort your purchased or GamePass titles*

On the Store homepage, click the menu button on the bottom-left department of the window, so select "Library" to meet all of the apps that you own.
You can and so employ the filter at the superlative to prove only games, but this view doesn't distinguish betwixt purchased games or titles y'all've downloaded via GamePass.
This view also includes games that can but be played exclusively on the Xbox console. And there isn't a way to filter the view to brand Xbox One games disappear.

Did I mention that the Xbox app for Windows is just way better?

Update March eighth, 2022, 2:20PM ET: This article was originally published on August twelfth, 2019; the info about the Game Pass and some of the screenshots have been updated.