The highest rated game of the year comes to Xbox Game Pass, PS+ tomorrow

While there are already more games than you can shake a stick at, from the recently released South of Midnight to a new freaking DOOM next month, things just aren’t slowing down. Tomorrow sees Blue Prince, the highest rated game of the year so far drop straight into the service on both Console and PC for Xbox Game Pass subscribers and PS+ players too.

In our spoiler-free Blue Prince review, I wrote that “To say that I’m utterly infatuated with Blue Prince would be an understatement. There are so many layers to the game, I’ve barely even scratched the surface here in terms of how deep this rabbit hole goes, and I’m 70+ plus hours in at the time of writing this review.

It is an impeccably made work of absolute genius, and the team at Dogubomb and Game Director Tonda Ros have worked magic here. As I said at the start of this review, I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever played. Without a doubt a shoe-in for indie darling of the year, I’d give it an 11 out of 10 if I could.

Go download it, and dig in – it’s fantastic.“

Turns out, I’m not alone in throwing absolutely gushing praise on to the game.

On Metacritic, OpenCritic and CriticDB, Blue Prince has gone and earned itself higher review scores than some of this years biggest AAA releases. With Blue Prince on Game Pass and PS+ from tomorrow, you might want to check out what other outlets have to say.

IGN have rocked up with a 9 out of 10, with Tom Marks saying “Blue Prince is the kind of puzzle game that dug deep into my brain and didn’t let go. Its complex mysteries weave brilliantly into the careful decision making of how to lay out the mansion’s rooms on each randomized run, leaving me building floorplans in my sleep almost every night after I played it.”

Christian Donlan over at Eurogamer awarded the game 5 stars, saying “This is the magic of spaces and architecture, if you ask me. Blue Prince bottles this, but every good building, even if it doesn’t have the ability to reconfigure itself around you every morning, will change a little as you change and as your relationship to it changes….With Blue Prince I get that. What an extraordinary game this is.

Are you going to check out Blue Prince when it drops onto Xbox Game Pass and PS+? If you’re a subscriber to either service, you absolutely should!

I know I’m looking forward to the community getting stuck in, and will enjoy reading reactions from players as they journey deep into the estate of Mt.Holly in both the XboxEra Forums and our wonderful Community Discord.

Welcome to the party, puzzle sickos!