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Games With Gold For April 2020: Last Chance To Claim Free Xbox Games

Here are the free Xbox games Gold members can now claim.

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April's PlayStation Plus freebies for PS4 leaked early, but Microsoft's Games with Gold lineup for April was announced at the last possible moment. As always, the latest batch of four games will be staggered across the month, with the first two games available now. Xbox One users get to keep Games with Gold free games in their library as long as they have an active Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate subscription.

Slightly Mad Studio's 2017 racing sim Project Cars 2 will be free throughout the whole month of April. Project Cars 2 features a staggering collection of more than 180 vehicles to choose from and 140 tracks across 60 locations. The realistic sim earned a 7/10 in GameSpot's Project Cars 2 review for its fine-tuned physics, dynamic weather system, and sheer variety of racing formats, which includes off-road contests with rallycross cars.

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Now Playing: Free Xbox One And Xbox 360 Games With Gold For April 2020 Revealed

As we approach the end of the month, the Knights of Pen and Paper Bundle and Toybox Turbos are also up for grabs. Knights of Pen and Paper bundle includes both of the well-received games in the series, which feature gorgeous pixel art and interesting turn-based combat. Meanwhile, Toybox Turbos is a top-down tabletop racing game with 35 customizable vehicles and 18 zany tracks.

Xbox 360 title Fable Anniversary was up fro grabs April 1 but has since rotated out. A remastered version of the original entry in the Microsoft series, the action-RPG also earned a 7/10 in GameSpot's Fable Anniversary review. While the original Fable never truly lived up to its pre-release hype, it's still a fun game that's worth checking out if you've never visited Albion.

Xbox Games with Gold for April 2020

Xbox One

  • Project Cars 2 (April 1-30)
  • Knights of Pen and Paper Bundle (April 16-May 15)

Xbox 360

  • Fable Anniversary (April 1-15)
  • Toybox Turbos (April 16-30)

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Two racing games in one month...wow such variety.

and this is why i never bothered to renew my gold membership when it expired last December.

This is by far one of their worst months ever.

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Utter nonsense..Xbox/Microsoft leadership =Vote of no confidence!

*PrjectCars2~ there was once hyper for PC1. but like SeaOfThieves

that hype died once the game was mediocre or avg at best..

**Fable Anniversary. So what if it's 4k now. it still is just shiny PS2/OriginalXbox

graphics..it's a good game for sure. but it's not something anyone wanted..

Those who wanted it already had it. And It's also on Gamepass..

~~Xbox needs to start giving people a reason to have Xbox Live Gold..

Actually,,give us a reason to even want a Xbox..

State of Decay2 & Seao Of Thieves & Crackdown3= all CRAP!

Not a coincidence...

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They waited until the last minute to announce these games and they're utter trash. IDK why they bother when we get maybe 1 good month a year.

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Wow talk about a bore fest of games. Best game here is an old fable game that nobody will even play at this point. Another month of xbox collecting dust.

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@onehitta323: i encourage anyone who is interested in fable to try anniversary...the visuals up to 4k gives this games a good argument.

Still no match vs UC4 for sure

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@sladakrobot: True

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You can satisfy some of the people all the time but you can't satisfy all the people all the time, I will do them all. :)

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Played KoPnP 1&2 on mobile way-back-when... delightful games.

Fable is an obvious win too. Best of the 3 IMO, but each had their moments.

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Ok just like Sony nothing here. what's for May Microsoft?

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Ok,ill try the pen and paper game...never done these before.

If its somethin i like and since i am a sci-fi fan,i would get the upcoming Space Galaxy P&P game which looked pretty fun from what i saw

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And it's crap again.

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Not the best month ever, but not the worst either.

I'll never understand why anyone would play Project Cars over any Forza game.

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@aross2004: Forza is a simish racer means it is to a degree a simulation but it doesnt go the full simulation route.It has also arcade aspects and many driving aids to get the game accessible for pretty much everyone.

Project Cars is considered a pure simulation(and for that it has a hardcore fanbase especially in the pc scene) and dry presentation...driving wheel required i guess to use the full potentiall of the game.

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@sladakrobot: You can adjust options in PC to make it very arcadey as well. But PC is nowhere close to being a pure simulation, (even with a wheel).

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These games require AA batteries to operate.

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I'll take Fable Anniversary, cool.

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@Ovirew: It's been free on Game Pass for awhile now.

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@magnificent7: True. I guess it's still nice if you don't subscribe to Game Pass though.

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Is it me or do you guys also feel like the stores are getting filled with a lot of bloat trash & indy games. Of course not all are bad, but mostly are. It feels like now it is a dumping ground for games I don't want to play. Give me some good old newer backwards compatible games any day over some of this quagmire.

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@just1mohr: I back you 100%

on MOST Indies being unplayable mediocre garbage!

Every now & then you get a Undertale of Binding of Isaac..

But most are pixelated nonsense..

Indie popularity has cluttered the gaming options to make it seem like there;s more options then really are..

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@just1mohr: You're not wrong there. Lots of indie games. Some are ok but the majority are slapped together garbage.

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Hard to get excited about Gold games when you compare it to Plus and this month is no exception.

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@boardsport311: Plus has it's bad months too.

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Finally! Not bad, still honestly I was expecting more for how long it took to announce.

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I already bought 3 of the 4 games. Only played knights of pen and paper

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Fable Anniversary. Me likey. Makes up for the fact that I hate racing games.

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@bdrtfm: Fable Anniversary is pretty good. Got it awhile back via Game Pass. Played it years ago on PC but wanted to give it another run through on Xbox. I wasn't disappointed. All the Fable games are available via Game Pass. This is a good thing since I never finished 2 or 3.

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@magnificent7: 2 was great, 3 I had a love hate relationship. It had so much potential, but everything that could have been great was poorly implemented or not fully realized. I also wished there was a bigger sense of open world at that point. It seemed big and small at the same time.

The effects you had on the world while being a ruler was cool though.

Fable Anniversary is awesome, I think Fable 1 may stand as my favorite as it was really the beginning potential of the series and 2 I think lost it's way a bit.

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Pretty good month, all games are interesting.

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*gasp*
Fable Anniversary

I've put off buying this game for SOOOOO long.
I was hoping Lost Chapters would hit Backwards Compatibility, maybe once the XSX updates start rolling in... but either way! HOORAAAAY!!!!

Such a nice change. Feels like forever since we got a game I was actually excited for on the X360 gold stuff.

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@skyhighgam3r: Lost Chapters is still my favorite Fable so I'm pretty excited to get this one.

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@lionheartssj1: Same here. Loved the added content. Now to finish both 2 and 3 since they are on Game Pass. For some reason I just couldn't get into them years back when they first came out, especially 3.

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