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Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Game Pass has a new day-one game that, according to Metacritic scores, is the best day-one Xbox Game Pass game of 2026, so far. This does not mean that the Xbox Game Pass day one game is the highest-rated game of 2026 of any release. This honor belongs to Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/em>. By this measurement, it is actually the 15th highest-rated new release of 2026, but none of the 14 games above it have been day one Xbox Game Pass games.<\/p>\n Previously, the claimant of this title was Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard<\/em> from Vampire Survivors<\/em>, which only recently took the title from MIO: Memories in Orbit<\/em>, which had the title from January to April. The new highest-rated Xbox Game Pass day one game of 2026 is Beethoven and Dinosaur and Annapurna Interactive\u2019s Mixtape<\/em>, which currently has an 85 on Metacritic. The game just released yesterday, so it is possible this score will drop as more reviews populate, but right now, it has a little buffer between the aforementioned Vampire Crawlers<\/em>. <\/p>\n \t\t\tPlay video<\/span><\/p>\n In addition to a rock-solid 85 on Metacritic, Mixtape<\/em> has impressed general consumers so far as well. The game is too new for user reviews on the Xbox Store, but it has user reviews on Steam, where it has a 96% approval rating after more than 100 user reviews. These are reviews from early adopters who are more likely to be favorable to the game, though.<\/p>\n For those unfamiliar with the title, it is the sophomore release from the aforementioned developer, who previously released The Artful Escape<\/em> in 2021, which received a similar reception. To this end, it looks like Mixtape<\/em> is going to end up being a more niche release in the broader video game market, but one with plenty of praise and moderate commercial success for an indie title.<\/p>\n As for the game itself, Mixtape<\/em> is a narrative-driven coming-of-age adventure game that follows the story of three friends on their last night together, reliving a mixtape of memories. <\/p>\n What Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass users can expect from the game \u2014 which is locked behind a $20 purchase otherwise \u2014 is a fairly short game that runs about three to five hours long, depending on completion level. <\/p>\n All of that said, and as always, feel free to leave a comment or two letting us know what you think, or join the video game conversations happening over on the ComicBook Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Game Pass has a new day-one game that, according to Metacritic scores, is the best day-one Xbox Game Pass game of 2026, so far. This does not mean that the Xbox Game Pass day one game is the highest-rated game of 2026 of any release. This honor belongs to Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia. By this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3398,206,3989,672,315],"class_list":{"0":"post-7691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pc-gaming","8":"tag-day","9":"tag-game","10":"tag-officially","11":"tag-pass","12":"tag-xbox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Available on PC and Xbox Series X via Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/h2>\n