Vampire-slaying co-op shooter Redfall launches onto Xbox Game Pass later this year, and Arkane studio director Harvey Smith has commented on the scope of the Game Pass service and the potential it offers.
Redfall is one of the biggest titles on our list of all the games coming to Game Pass in 2023 and beyond — and one which, depending on its reception, could shoot onto our round-up of the best games on Game Pass — and it should arrive in the first half of this year, when it’ll launch onto Xbox Game Pass. Game Pass often offers a huge visibility boost to new games joining the service, and Arkane studio director Harvey Smith has commented on the scope of Game Pass and the amount of players it might bring to Redfall.
Redfall launches into Xbox Game Pass as a day-one addition later this year
“I feel like with Xbox Game Pass, the potential is here for us to say: This is Arkane, and these are our creative values — we can expose a lot of people to the way that we make games,” Smith says in an interview with GamesRadar. “I hope we can turn people onto what we do: deep world creation, environmental storytelling, the emergent results of combat and your powers, and creating lovingly crafted worlds with a real sense of history and character… The pool that Game Pass offers is huge for us. It’s kind of shocking, and scary in a way. Like, how many people are going to play Redfall in the first week? What if it’s a lot more than we anticipated…”
Smith continues, adding, “we’re going to get a lot of feedback very quickly, and a lot of people will see what we’ve spent the last few years on. Redfall is our pandemic game, man. It’s easy to forget now, but there were dark days during the pandemic. People on my team were sitting at home alone, losing their minds because we didn’t have vaccines yet, and nobody was sure what it meant for their kids and for the economy. The team carried each other through it all; Zenimax, Bethesda, and Microsoft were very good to us during that difficult time. Now that we’re on the other side of it, the last thing I got to do here is ship Redfall.”
Now we’re into January, we should hopefully hear from Bethesda and Arkane about narrowing down that “first half of 2023” release window. We’ll keep an eye out — in the meantime, what do you make of Smith’s comments? When do you expect to see Redfall? Let us know!
