The service satisfies survival game fans, RPG players, puzzle admirers, and everything in-between.

These games actually take into account how you choose to play your characters and adjust the game accordingly.

All choices have consequences.

Best Co-Op RPGs Featured Split Image Borderlands 2 and Stardew Valley

There are many of these types of adventures on Game Pass, but these are the best.

The game was made by Obsidian, a studio known for including impactful choices in its games.

So, its no surprise that you have to make many decisions in Avowed.

Split image featuring Crusader Kings, Stardew Valley, and Red Dead Redemption 2

The main story revolves around your character investigating a deadly plague thats spreading across the land.

The narrative can play out in many different ways, mainly down to your choices.

Your decisions also impact individual people and places.

Nier automata mass effect 2 detroit become human

So, you have the ability to shape most of the world in this game.

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

In Citizen Sleeper 2, youre what they call a sleeper.

This isnt someone who stays in bed all day.

Featured Image containing screenshots of Tell Me Why, Skyrim, and Mass Effect 3.

This is someone who is a digitized human mind thats inside a robot body.

Youre on the run from the start, as both a corporation and a gang are after you.

Dont worry, though, as you might commandeer a ship and build up a crew of allies.

16-10 Games Where Your Decisions Actually Matter

via Obsidian

From there, it’s possible for you to take on contracts and missions.

Road 96

Road 96 is set in a fictional nation that is under a dictatorship.

You don’t play as all the teenagers at once.

Inquisiotr Lodwyn in Avowed.

via Obsidian

Instead, you control one after another.

Once one character’s journey is over, you start to control another.

So, it’s a unique game.

avowed-tag-page-cover-art.jpg

Fallout 4

Fallout 4 is one of the most famous RPGs released in recent memory.

Once you do, you set on an adventure to find your son and figure out who took them.

Your interactions with these factions significantly impact the story and the wasteland.

Xbox-1

It’s a turn-based RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world.

This apocalypse came about due to a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union.

The events of the game take place many years after that.

PC-1

Throughout the adventure, you should probably make several difficult decisions that are important to the story.

Oblivion doesn’t have quite as many as some of the others, particularly in regard to the story.

However, you have to make some big decisions right from the start of the game.

Serafin from Citizen Sleeper 2.

There can only be one “Best Bethesda Game.”

Here’s how the studio’s titles stack up against each other.

Your choices regarding your character’s race, birthsign, and class impact the rest of the adventure.

mixcollage-13-dec-2024-06-44-pm-5737.jpg

They don’t affect the story too much, but they do change the way you play.

On top of that, there are other choices in the game that impact your experience.

However, the King of Albion is your older brother, and he’s a tyrant.

PlayStation-1

Along the way, you make plenty of promises to the people of Albion.

These are the most taxing choices you make in this witty RPG.

Football Manager 2024 isn’t the first game you probably think of when it comes to choices.

Road 96 screenshot of Alex playing on an arcade machine.

Yet, much of what you do in the game is make choices.

All of this contributes to how well your team does on the pitch.

Pillars Of Eternity: Complete Edition

Pillars of Eternity is an isometric RPG with party-based tactical combat.

mixcollage-27-nov-2024-09-08-pm-9203-1.jpg

In terms of presentation and style, it feels like a tribute to role-playing games from an earlier era.

Using that power, you must save the world.

Along the way, you might alter the lengthy adventure through the choices you’re prompted to make.

The female Sole Survivor from Fallout 4 heads down a broken road with her canine companion, Dogmeat. She’s wearing a blue Vault 111 jumpsuit and armed with a rifle.

Some are small and only slightly change things, while others impact the game’s ending.

As such, there are a few different conclusions to the tale.

You’re also tasked with making a bunch of decisions.

mixcollage-08-dec-2024-01-53-pm-2416.jpg

They don’t significantly alter where the story goes, but they do alter individual lives.

In fact, your choices can change whether certain characters live or die.

Medieval Dynasty

Medieval Dynasty is a survival and simulation game set in the Middle Ages.

Wasteland 2 screenshot of group of rangers surrounded by debris.

You’re tasked with building and managing a town from scratch.

Once you’ve built up your town a bit, it becomes more of a town management game.

You do so with your long-time brother, Sigurd.

mixcollage-25-nov-2024-12-32-pm-3550.jpg

While in the new country, you make alliances and build up your community.

Plus, you make a bunch of choices.

Some are small and only affect the outcomes of specific quests.

Uriel Septim imparting his final words in Oblivion the video game.

Yet, others have a large impact on your relationship with Sigurd and the ending of the game.

Things are a bit more serious in This War of Mine, though.

Here are the ten best survival titles on Game Pass.

mixcollage-06-dec-2024-10-23-pm-1895.jpg

This is a strategy game set during wartime.

You have to see to it they all remain alive until the fighting stops.

This means keeping them fed and healthy.

Every Bethesda Game Studios Game Ranked Video Thumbnail

Unfortunately, to accomplish that, you must make many tough moral decisions.

Crusader Kings 3

Crusader Kings 3 is all about ruling and building up a nation.

In fact, it’s pretty much the main job of a ruler.

Screenshot of King Logan in Fable 3.

The first one you make in the game is selecting which leader and nation to play as.

These aren’t good or evil decisions.

It’s more complicated than that.

mixcollage-24-dec-2024-01-35-am-5318.jpg

These are tricky politics you’re dealing with.

So, it’s more about being smart and strategic than honorable.

As youd expect for this sort of job, youre forced to make a litany of big decisions.

Football Manager 2024 promo image of players standing in a row.

Some dont mean much, while others impact your whole playthrough.

Your choices also affect your relationships with the people around you.

In the case of one character, you heavily influence the sort of person she becomes.

mixcollage-03-dec-2024-02-02-pm-374.jpg

So, think before you act.

In fact, humans are now spacefaring people.

One of those folks is the character you create.

Pillars of Eternity inn with water wheel with characters outside.

You get to choose what they look like and their background.

Then you’re off to explore the universe.

During this exploration, you meet many people and embark on many quests.

mixcollage-11-dec-2024-08-55-am-140.jpg

Along the way, you’re forced to make plenty of choices that significantly affect your adventure.

Yet, you soon have to venture into that dangerous wasteland to find your father.

It’s at this point where the RPG really begins.

Mass Effect Andromeda screenshot of PeeBee close-up.

Your choices impact people’s lives, towns, and the entire wasteland.

Either way, your character is a mercenary operating in Ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War.

To truly move past it, they need to figure out what really happened that night.

mixcollage-25-dec-2024-12-12-am-6542.jpg

Throughout the story, you make several important decisions that impact the relationship between the brother and sister.

How close they are by the end of the narrative affects which ending you get.

Pentiment

In Pentiment, you play as a 16th-century man called Andreas Maler.

Medieval Dynasty screenshot of player riding a horse.

This means you gather plenty of evidence and talk to a bunch of people.

The choices in question have to do with Andreas' personality and background.

Wasteland 3

Wasteland 3 is a turn-based RPG with a significant focus on player choice.

medieval-dynasty-cover-art.jpg

What’s better than a deep RPG adventure?

Experiencing that adventure with friends.

While roaming the terrible place, you interact with a bunch of people.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Sigurd with his hand on Eivor’s shoulder.

During these moments, you’re forced to make big decisions.

Your choices can heavily impact your relationships with these people and the story as a whole.

Your goal is to stop her and save the other potential protagonist.

mixcollage-24-dec-2024-11-40-am-6948.jpg

Selecting a playable character isn’t the only choice in the game.

And there are consequences for your choice of playstyle.

After all, the amount of chaos you create during your playthrough directly impacts the world and story.

A mother surrounded by her children in a torn-down home, wounds visible on one of the boys.

You also make decisions regarding the fates of several characters throughout the adventure.

It is a point-and-click adventure title filled with quick-time events, dialog choices, and many decisions.

It makes for a very exciting adventure.

mixcollage-23-dec-2024-02-14-pm-5062.jpg

As Dusk Falls

As Dusk Falls is a game all about choice.

Your actions completely alter the way the tale unfolds.

The said tale involves two families whose lives change on one fateful night inside a motel in Arizona.

The Best Xbox Game Pass Survival Games

The story is a mature one that’s filled with tragedy and heartbreak.

The serious themes are handled well, due in part to the stellar writing and excellent voice acting.

The Outer Worlds

In this action RPG, the human race has colonized a new star system.

Crusader Kings 3 loading screen of a bunch of people at a table, discussing something.

During your mission, you visit many places and meet a litany of different people.

Their opinions of you constantly change based on your decisions throughout the game.

In the end, the newly colonized world will have been shaped by your actions.

CRUSADER KINGS 3

And the original game (or the Anniversary remake) is arguably Fable at its best.

In it, you start as a kid who’s raised to be a hero.

If you want, you could go around brutally killing those who stand in your way.

Dragon Age Inquisition screenshot of the Inquisitor sitting on the throne in Skyhold.

Or you could show mercy to many people, even the ones who’ve personally wronged you.

These moral choices play a big role in how your story plays out.

The first one, however, is arguably the series’s finest.

mixcollage-06-dec-2024-10-18-pm-3578.jpg

Yet, the decisions aren’t just a part of the main story.

There are many choices to make in the side quests, too.

And pretty much every one of them impacts how your own companions view you.

Starfield screenshot of Barrett facing the camera in his space suit.

it’s possible for you to even choose things like where to live and who to marry.

Therefore, choice plays a large part in the overall experience.

So, you must deal with them by any means necessary.

mixcollage-08-dec-2024-02-24-pm-6140.jpg

Frostpunk

Most choice-based games are narrative-focused adventures, but this isn’t the case with Frostpunk.

This title is a city-building simulation game without much story content.

There is a backstory, though, to set the game up.

Your Dad James in Fallout 3, reaching his hand out.

In this version of the 19th century, there was a volcanic winter that froze much of the world.

Naturally, this caused significant damage to human civilization.

Along the way, you must make a whole host of difficult decisions.

mixcollage-06-dec-2024-09-48-pm-8939.jpg

Not every choice you make will be popular with everyone, but it may keep your people alive.

Fallout: New Vegas

The story of Fallout New Vegas starts with a simple revenge plot.

However, you end up amid a conflict over who runs New Vegas and the surrounding Wasteland.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey screenshot of Kassandra and Deimos looking at one another.

As you’d expect from a choice-based RPG, you have a large say in how everything concludes.

Much of it depends on your interactions with the various factions that inhabit the Wasteland.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

The Mass Effect Legendary Edition includes the series' original trilogy of games.

mixcollage-06-dec-2024-03-14-pm-5067-1.jpg

You shape the world as you make all sorts of decisions that impact the universe.

This is the sort of power you have.

Not every decision is as big as those, though.

Tyler Ronan stretches in a pine forest with Alyson Ronan in background in Tell Me Why.

You also get to select things likeyour romantic partnerand who you take on missions.

These are some that do it really well.

mixcollage-06-dec-2024-04-20-pm-1540.jpg

Pentiment screenshot of Agnes, Lucky and Andreas at dinner.

mixcollage-25-nov-2024-12-16-pm-9176.jpg

Wasteland 3 screenshot of people in snow aiming their weapons.

mixcollage-12-dec-2024-11-54-pm-8506.jpg

Dishonored 2 screenshot of Corvo and Emily fighting back to back.

mixcollage-03-dec-2024-09-25-pm-2372.jpg

The Walking Dead screenshot of Young Clementine looking up.

mixcollage-09-dec-2024-11-12-am-3933.jpg

phone transparent

As Dusk Falls screenshot of Dale holding Vince hostage with a red dot on the former’s head.

mixcollage-04-dec-2024-02-54-am-6940.jpg

The Outer Worlds screenshot of player shooting lightning at mech.

the-outer-worlds-video-game-cover-art-tag.jpg

Fable Anniversary screenshot of player blocking attack from enemy.

Dragon Age Origins screenshot of Alistair.

mixcollage-05-dec-2024-08-09-pm-3051.jpg

Screenshot of Paarthurnax in Skyrim.

mixcollage-08-dec-2024-02-45-pm-445.jpg

mixcollage-04-dec-2024-07-25-pm-2701.jpg

mixcollage-09-dec-2024-10-17-am-2463-1.jpg

mixcollage-12-dec-2024-09-49-am-1499.jpg

mixcollage-07-dec-2024-08-52-am-1275.jpg

Triple-A Games