r/XboxSeriesX • u/MRHipshot • May 19 '24
Dredge is now Play Anywhere for anyone who has a PC/ROG Ally News
Just checked my PC library and Dredge showed up as installable. Previously it was only Console.
No 2nd purchase required to install on PC. God I love Play Anywhere.
I’m not saying it’s coming to Game Pass immediately but this is usually a step that games have to do to meet the GP requirement. Having a Windows version. So maybe sometime in the near future.
Check the link for a review. Dredge is a beautiful and relaxing indie horror fishing game where you’re a boat
Also shout out to Legion Go.
https://xboxera.com/2024/05/19/dredge-is-now-play-anywhere-on-xbox-game-pass/
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u/Lupinthrope Founder May 19 '24
Still want that Xbox handheld
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u/Roklobster1 May 19 '24
Thats what your phone is.
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May 20 '24
God forbid people want dedicated devices.
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u/Roklobster1 May 20 '24
That's what your phone is.
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u/phoneacct696969 May 19 '24
Na I want to be able to play Xbox games on my handheld. Xbox loses way too much money on physical stuff.
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u/segagamer May 19 '24
Whenever there's a Dev AMA I always ask the question and encourage its support. I have a Legion Go and so games being PlayAnywhere get prioritised since I can finish them quicker on my commutes to/from work and lunch break.
Yes I know cloud streaming is a thing, but it's always annoying to set up with the office firewalls, and nothing beats native.
Well, I'll be asking for PlayAnywhere until a portable Xbox of some form happens lol. Would love to go through my 360 backlog this way.
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u/Existing365Chocolate May 19 '24
Dredge won an award earlier in the year for some kind of best of streaming games
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u/LukeAriel May 19 '24
That's actually all I need to push me over the edge. Play anywhere is criminally underrated in the age of pc handhelds
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u/Beasthuntz May 19 '24
I play anywhere in my house on the ROG Ally due to its magnificent remote play abilities.
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u/adastro66 May 19 '24
Any replay value to this game?
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u/Bogonauta Founder May 19 '24
I'm still very early in the game, but I think there are three different endings.
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u/shinikahn May 19 '24
You decide the ending in the final half hour so licking one doesn't change playtime very much. But you can get dozens of hours of gameplay if you want to get everything done.
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u/shinikahn May 19 '24
If you are a completionist, you can play this game for dozens of hours trying to get every fish every variation and completing every quest
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u/Existing365Chocolate May 19 '24
It’s a blast to 100% with an expansion DLC campaign coming this year
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u/Able_Contribution407 May 19 '24
That's awesome! Thanks for the heads-up. I'll install it on my Ally.
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u/Anchelspain Founder May 19 '24
Games don't have to be Xbox Play Anywhere to be on Game Pass though. Quite a lot of them don't. Tomb Raider ans Rise of the Tomb Raider for example aren't (but Shadow of the Tomb Raider is). Fallout 4 isn't either, nor does it have cross-save. Or the first Hellblade, or any Ubisoft or EA game at all. Which is annoying because I always have to decide on which platform I wanna play some of those games: ROG Ally? Or on my Xbox console? Can't start in one and continue on the other.
Really wish Microsoft would put more incentives for developers to integrate this, or at the very least to do just the cross-save part like some games do.
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u/strangerinhere88 May 19 '24
All the games you listed were out before game pass was a thing
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u/Anchelspain Founder May 19 '24
Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Valhalla, Jedi Survivor, , Far Cry 6, Immortals of Aveum, Chants of Sennaat which just released... there are plenty of new games that are not Xbox Play Anywhere and released well after Game Pass and the Play Anywhere initiative were a thing. At least the recent Ubisoft ones have cross-save, but almost no EA games have that.
My point is that it's super inconsistent. Take Final Fantasy for example. Of all the FF games that went through Game Pass, only FF9 is Xbox Play Anywhere. And 15 supports cross-save. The rest each have a separate PC and Xbox purchase, and don't have any kind of cross-save support. It's just strange that 9 would have it, but 7, 8, 10, 12 and 13 don't, despite all of them receiving Xbox achievements when they arrived on Game Pass.
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u/MRHipshot May 19 '24
Oh no I know.. it’s odd for them to add it so late and after the fact. It’s either at launch or around the time of a game being added to GP. Like Resident Evil 2 suddenly got an Xbox PC version so it could be play anywhere.
But yeah recent an example of Play Anywhere with no GP (yet) is Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth. I bet maybe a year from now it might be in GP
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u/Anchelspain Founder May 19 '24
I'm hoping that with the rising popularity of PC gaming handhelds, and Phil Spencer having publicly talked about how it's not so great that not all games share saves with Xbox or they may have to be purchased again, Microsoft will make a bigger push to get more publishers onboard with this.
So perhaps what we're seeing is part of that: pushing even older games to receive the treatment.
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u/FollowsJesus2024 May 19 '24
dredge was one of the best games I played last year; its modest appearance hides one heck of a great game