High on Life: the Most Played Game on Game Pass Ever

High on Life: the Most Played Game on Game Pass Ever: Only a week after its initial release on PC and Xbox Game Pass, the wacky shooter High On Life has surpassed long-running games like Minecraft and major Xbox titles in terms of popularity. This is both a testament to the shooter’s popularity and an indictment of the relative dearth of major, first-party Xbox releases in the year 2022.

High On Life, which debuted on Game Pass on December 13 to lukewarm reviews, had a rocky start when it first went live. The worst performance issues were patched soon after release, making the game more playable (if you can get beyond the Rick and Morty comedy).

High on Life: the Most Played Game on Game Pass Ever

From what little information we have gleaned from Xbox.com and the Game Pass app, it appears that many individuals have downloaded and installed High On Life to give it a try.

The “Most Popular” games on Game Pass are listed on the Xbox website, and as of 19 December, 5:20 PM EST, High On Life was the most played game in the library. The Game Pass app for Android and iOS tells a similar story, except Lego Star Wars is ranked lower (sixth) there.

Meanwhile, High On Life is number one in the PC Game Pass app, where it dominates the charts to the exclusion of Darktide and Microsoft Solitaire.

For Squanch Games and Justin Roiland, the creators of High on Life, this is undoubtedly good news. The new shooting game is very popular on Xbox and PC. That’s fantastic news for the team (and AI algorithms) behind the game, and it’s encouraging to see a brand-new intellectual property succeed in a gaming industry where it sometimes feels like everything else is a remake, sequel, or reboot.

On the other side, it may be seen as a minor criticism of Game Pass in its current form and the lack of strong, recent first-party games. In 2022, Microsoft has failed to release any major exclusives to compete with Sony and Nintendo’s God of War and Pokémon.

Pentiment by Obsidian, a narrative-driven game set in the past, is the sole new Xbox and PC game this year developed by a Microsoft internal company. That’s hardly a lot of games, by any measure, and it’s certainly not as much as Sony or Nintendo.

Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Psychonauts 2, and Age of Empires IV were all published by Xbox Game Studios in 2021. In 2021, if High On Life had been available on Game Pass, would it have fared as well and been as popular as those other games? Really, I have no idea.

It’s not possible for me to investigate parallel universes at this time. Smaller and medium-sized games, like Evil West and High On Life, have done better than normal this year thanks to the dearth of blockbuster games from Xbox and from the industry as a whole. And that’s a positive thing in the grand scheme of things.

When the major games that release on Game Pass also arrive elsewhere and Xbox’s big hitters like Gears and Halo are absent, how long will a large portion of Game Pass customers stay paying for the service?

Frequently asked questions

How long is high in life?

Generally speaking, High on Life is a rather linear game. If you want to get through the main tale, with only a little bit of wandering and waiting for the dialogue to finish, it should take you roughly seven to ten hours.

Where to buy high on life?

In addition to being included in Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass, High On Life is now available for purchase on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows.

What movies are in the high on life game?

There are four films available for viewing within High on Life. Tammy and the T-Rex, Vampire Hookers, Blood Harvest, and Demon Wind are the four movies.

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