Xbox Game Pass has added a day-one title called Dead Static Drive to its library, while also expanding the availability of one previously introduced game. Regularly priced at $29.99, Dead Static Drive marks the third addition to Microsoft's subscription service for November 2025, as well as the 192nd new Xbox Game Pass release since the beginning of the year.
Developed by Melbourne-based Reuben Games, Dead Static Drive is billed as a "Grand Theft Cthulhu"-style experience, in which players must survive a nightmarish road trip through an alternate, post-apocalyptic version of the 1980s American Southwest. The setting draws inspiration from various sources of weird fiction, including the writings of T. E. D. Klein, the photography of William Eggleston, and the films of David Lynch. Gameplay-wise, Dead Static Drive is a road trip survival game that owes a lot to The Oregon Trail and similar titles. However, the Lovecraftian Eldritch monsters roaming its many environments give it a distinctly horror atmosphere. The story follows a lone character, Hearst, as they search for their parents in a collapsing world and seek answers about the cause of the apocalypse.
Following approximately a decade of intermittent development, Dead...
