There was once a time when Xbox Game Pass announcements would come along every month - or every couple of weeks, at most. This week, however, is not one of those weeks.

Confirming the raft of upcoming games headed to the service today, Microsoft has snuck in one more title worthy of mention: Square Enix role-player Octopath Traveller. Previously available on PC and Nintendo Switch, it'll jump onto Xbox Game Pass for PC and consoles on 25th March.

It's been an extraordinarily busy few days of Xbox Game Pass news, with some eye-opening additions announced. To recap, the promising Outriders will launch via Xbox Game Pass on day one after a positive response to its demo. Cult favourite Undertale hits Game Pass as it finally arrives on Xbox today, 16th March many years after its debut elsewhere.

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Octopath Traveler, Square Enix's celebrated retro-ish J-RPG, will be throwing off the shackles of Switch exclusivity on June 7th - when it comes to PC via Steam.

That's not exactly a huge surprise, seeing that Square managed to leak the news on its own website last week, but at least we now know that nothing has changed since then. And it's welcome news too, given that Octopath Traveler is a generally superb effort on Square's part, and one of the more eye-catching J-RPGs of recent times.

Octopath Traveler, which debuted on Switch last July, has two big tricks up its sleeve: the first is its gorgeous, immediately striking art style, which reimagines the classic 16-bit J-RPG aesthetic into full 3D - with chunky pixels still in tact (Square calls this "HD-2D").

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