Microsoft has announced Xbox Games With Gold for October 2022, including Windbound and Bomber Crew Deluxe Edition.
As revealed by Xbox Wire, next month’s lineup will feature shipwreck survival game Windbound. The Bomber Crew Deluxe Edition rounds out this month’s offerings. A strategic WWII bombing game that puts you in the cockpit.
Two new Games With Gold titles will be available throughout his October to anyone with Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
Starting October 1st, Windbound will be released with a proper shipwreck survival experience. Available on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, Windbound is a fun and challenging survival game in which you play as Kara, shipwrecked on a forbidden island with nothing but loot and buildings.
The Bomber Crew Deluxe Edition will be released mid-month, October 16th.
Available for a month through October 31st, Windbound requires crafting weapons and tools to survive, as well as a new boat to explore the Forbidden Island on your own.
Take to the skies for strategic bombing in the WWII strategic bombing game available for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. But it’s not just where you drop your payload. Dodge enemy gunners while managing fuel, ammunition, and hydraulics. Available through Games With Gold through November 15th.
IGN’s review of Bomber Crew was 8/10, stating, “Bomber Crew is an exhilarating and deep management sim with an engaging style, keeping your crew alive and the brutal challenges you face while trying to achieve your objectives.”
It balances with…meeting in real time by any means.The challenging upgrade cycle makes the frustrating trial and error worth it and once you get used to it you lose hours in its comfortable cadence. There is a possibility.”