We can all use a vacation. Even if you just got back from a vacation, I promise, you can still use a vacation. But if you can’t get out of the house right now, Xbox Game Pass has a slew of travel-themed games or games taking place in spectacular real-life locals to help transport you somewhere nice this winter.
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While many games take you to far-off lands, magical universes, or distant galaxies, these games on Game Pass will let you travel to real-life locals, even if they’re fictionalized or post-apocalyptic at times. A vacation’s a vacation though, so pack your virtual bags and prepare to fly, drive, trek, and sail your way around the world via Xbox Game Pass. Subscribe now via to get traveling right away!
Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey
Want to visit ancient Egypt? How about Greece? Assassin’s Creed’s many historical locations have taken players around the world for decades, but the most distant past is at your fingertips in Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Trek the sands of Egypt as Bayek, sail the Mediterranean as Alexios or Kassandra, or forget about swords for a bit and explore the lands in Discovery Tour, where history is the main objective and combat is cut out.
Cities: Skylines
Not sure where you want to go exactly but you know it’s a city? Well, how about building your own in Cities: Skylines? One of the ultimate city-building simulators, Cities: Skylines can give you the best of all your favorite urban landscapes or help you recreate the one you’re missing most with its deep mechanics from transportation infrastructure to public policies.
Disneyland Adventures
If Xbox Game Pass is going to help you travel with video games to one very specific place in the world, that’s going to Disneyland. Disneyland Adventures is legitimately one of the best ways to experience the Magic Kingdom without the long lines, prices, and travel to get there. Ride all the most iconic rides via mini-games, wander the many lands encountering characters who need your help along the way, and get all of that Disneyland park music very stuck in your head.
Fallout 3
You can have a lot of open world adventures on Game Pass. You can have a lot of Fallout adventures on Game Pass. Maybe I’m biased because I live here, but if you’re looking for the best way to visit a city you know well in a post-nuclear catastrophe world, Fallout 3 is your way to do it. The Washington DC area of Fallout 3 is an impressive recreation of a place millions and millions of people can recognize from their travels while putting a unique but not too glib twist on it. Sure, the world as we know it is over, but hey, that’s still the Washington Monument!
Forza Horizon 4 and 5
If you want to experience absolutely gorgeous scenery, and even more so, do it while riding around the best cars in the world, then Xbox Game Pass has exactly your travel games in the form of Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 5. The four seasons of England and Mexico are open to your exploration in these beautiful and finely-tuned open-world racing games. Spot iconic landmarks, bask in all kinds of weather, and try your best to keep your eyes on the road.
Microsoft Flight Simulator
If you’re indecisive about where to travel via video game magic, Microsoft Flight Simulator is your solution, because it can take you literally anywhere in the world you like. In the most recent iteration of this classic simulator, all kinds of aircraft, weather, and challenges await your flightpaths too and from wherever on Earth you would like. With just a bit of patience and attention, you can be anywhere you’d like to be in no time.
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