Xbox Live Games With Gold Gave Subscribers Over $580 Worth of Games in 2014

This year has been a rather fruitful one for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, with Microsoft's Xbox Live Games with Gold programme giving away $584.67 worth of games for your annual subscription fee, which lest we forget, also enables you to play online and stuff.

While PlayStation Plus gave players $1349.29 in titles, that figure also takes into account PS Vita titles, making it essentially three consoles - PS4, PS3, PS Vita - versus two - Xbox One and Xbox 360. Also, Games with Gold didn't come to Xbox One until June, so there's that to factor in too.

With your $60 Xbox Live Gold membership, you could bag 34 games, including $9.99 titles like Halo: Spartan Assault and Episode One of Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, to more expensive games like Darksiders II, which is listed at $39.99. The offerings also averaged an overall Metacritic average of 78.3, meaning a fairly decent standard.

Check out 2014's Games with Gold below, listed by month with prices and Metacritic scores to date, courtesy of Polygon.

January:

Sleeping Dogs (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 80, Xbox Marketplace price: $19.99.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 85, $14.99
February:

Dead Island (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 71, $19.99.
Toy Soldiers: Cold War (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 81, $14.99
March:

Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 84, $29.99.
Dungeon Defenders (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 77, $14.99
April:

Hitman: Absolution (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 79, $19.99.
Deadlight (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 68, $14.99
May:

Saints Row: The Third (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 84, $19.99.
Dust: An Elysian Tail (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 83, $14.99
June:

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 72, $14.99.
Halo: Spartan Assault (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 53, $9.99.
Dark Souls (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 89, $19.99.
Charlie Murder (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 78, $9.99.
Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 78, $29.99
July:

Guacamelee: Super Turbo Championship Edition (Xbox One and Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 88, $14.99
BattleBlock Theater (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 85, $14.99.
Gotham City Impostors (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 71, $14.99
August:

Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 67, $14.99.
Dishonored (Xbox 360) Metacritic score: 88, $19.99.
Crimson Dragon (Xbox One) Metacritic score: 55, $19.99.
Motocross Madness (Xbox 360) Metacritic score: 73, $9.99
September:

Super Time Force (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 80, $14.99
Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 81, $14.99.
Halo: Reach (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 91, $24.99
October:

Chariot (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 74, $14.99.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 88, $19.99.
Darksiders 2 (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 83, $39.99
November:

Volgarr the Viking (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 82, $9.99
Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 82, $14.99.
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 85, $19.99
December:

Worms: Battlegrounds (Xbox One): Metacritic score: 70, $24.99.
The Raven — Legacy of a Master Thief Episode 1 (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 74*, $9.99.
SSX (Xbox 360): Metacritic score: 82 $19.99
(*Metacritic score taken from PC edition; Metacritic gives no score for this game’s Xbox 360 version)

Reminds me, must download SSX.

Thanks for sharing Kent

dazzamann wrote:Reminds me, must download SSX.  

Thanks for sharing Kent

SSX won't be up til tomorrow. Changes on the 16th I do believe.

Nice to read through the list. I'd forgotten quite how many Xbox One games I have queued up ready for when I eventually get my console. I won't need to actually buy any games for ages.