Xbox's Free Play Days promotion is running this weekend, giving Game Pass members access to three games at no extra cost through July 12. You'll need at least a Game Pass Essential, Premium, or Ultimate membership to jump in.
The three games on offer are MLB The Show 26 — the latest entry in Sony's long-running baseball sim series — survival game The Alters, and Stuffed, an FPS where you play as a teddy bear battling the nightmares haunting a young girl. After the free weekend ends, MLB The Show 26 drops to $35 and The Alters to $17.50 if you want to keep playing. Stuffed stays at its regular $12.50 price with no discount attached. Separately, Gears of War: Reloaded landed on Game Pass Premium on July 9, joining Ultimate and PC Game Pass, and arcade corridor shooter Tamashika also arrived across Ultimate, Premium, and PC Game Pass on the same day.
Free Play Days is a recurring Xbox promotion that lets Game Pass subscribers try full games over a weekend, with discounted purchase options waiting at the end for anyone who gets hooked. It's one of the more player-friendly perks of the subscription, especially when the lineup mixes high-profile sports titles with smaller indie games like Stuffed.
The promotion lands during a rough stretch for Xbox — the company recently laid off 1,600 employees, shut down or divested five studios, and cancelled several games. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has acknowledged the business isn't in a healthy state, and was recently appointed to a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and jobs. Free weekends won't fix any of that, but they're a decent reason to fire up the console regardless.
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