Highlights
- Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess has been treated to a day-one release on Xbox Game Pass.
- Capcom’s latest title is a Japanese folklore-inspired genre hybrid that combines elements of action, strategy, and tower defense games.
- Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess debuted to excellent reviews, with many critics praising it for its gameplay variance and memorable boss fights.
Xbox Game Pass has added Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, a new day-one title from Capcom, to its content library. This is the 11th game to reach Microsoft’s subscription service in July 2024, and the 95th Xbox Game Pass release since the turn of the year.
Capcom originally announced Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess in June 2023, having immediately labeled it as a day-one addition to the XGP library. Its title literally translates to “great deity of the Earth” or “great god of the land,” which is a reflection of its Japanese folklore inspirations. The game itself is a unique genre hybrid that features hack-and-slash action, strategy, and tower defense mechanics.
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Following over four years of development, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess hit the market on July 19, launching for PC and the latest two generations of Xbox and PlayStation consoles. While its introductory price is set at $49.99, it’s also playable via Xbox Game Pass and can even be streamed via the Ultimate-tier-exclusive Xbox Cloud Gaming service. Capcom’s latest release is roughly 18GB in size, depending on the platform, and comes with 48 Xbox achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore points in total.
New Xbox Game Pass Games in July 2024
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Game |
Date Added |
Cloud |
Xbox One |
Xbox Series X/S |
PC |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Journey to the Savage Planet |
July 3 |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
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|
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
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Cricket 24 |
July 9 |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
|
|
The Case of the Golden Idol |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
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|
Neon White |
July 11 |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Day-one Xbox release |
|
Tchia |
✅ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
||
|
Magical Delicacy |
July 16 |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Day-one release |
|
Flock |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
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|
Dungeons of Hinterberg |
July 18 |
✅ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
|
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Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn |
✅ |
❌ |
✅ |
✅ |
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🆕Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess |
July 19 |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
✅ |
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Is Getting Excellent Reviews
The game itself has received a lot of positive pre-release buzz, with many reviewers praising Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess for its varied gameplay, memorable boss fights, and an intuitive control scheme. Its average score on OpenCritic currently sits at 81, based on nearly 50 ratings. The game also boasts a whopping 85% reviewer recommendation rate on the aggregator platform.
While not exactly the most graphically intensive title ever made, this unique genre hybrid is elevated by its strong art direction, which heavily leans into traditional Japanese painting styles from the Edo period. Admiring its vivid palette and brushwork is made all the easier with the Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess photo mode, which offers a robust set of options conducive to creativity. Capcom fans should feel right at home with this feature, as its interface and capabilities are fairly similar to the photo modes of the company’s other recent games, such as Dragon’s Dogma 2 and the Resident Evil 4 remake. That’s ostensibly because all of the above are powered by the studio’s proprietary RE Engine.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is the eighth day-one title to reach Xbox Game Pass since the turn of the month. It’s also the final previously announced July 2024 addition to Microsoft’s subscription service, whose next confirmed game is Creatures of Ava, which is scheduled to arrive on August 7. However, there have been some industry rumblings about Xbox Game Pass adding two more surprise titles in the final stretch of July, one of which is said to be Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
