Free Play Days features three free Xbox games this weekend

Xbox Free Play Days returns, offering Xbox Game Pass and Game Pass Core subscribers three games to play for free this weekend.

Tom West

Published 25 Apr 2024

Microsoft has revealed this weekend's Free Play Days games for Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Core subscribers. This weekend, Prison Architect: Xbox One Edition, Railway Empire, and TramSim: Console Edition are free to play until April 29. If these games don't take your fancy, check out our list of the best free Xbox games for some other adventures you don't need to spend a penny on.

Xbox Free Play Days games (April 25 to April 29)

Players looking to run their own prison can check out Prison Architect: Xbox One Edition this weekend, although you'll likely not be able to squeeze out a completion during your time with it. Estimates suggest it takes between 40 and 50 hours to unlock all of the base game's 31 achievements. Sure, you could forgo any sleep, but we wouldn't recommend that if you want to feel somewhat fresh on Monday morning!

As for Railway Empire, well, you'd be hard-pressed to complete it in a week, let alone over the weekend. The base game has 53 achievements, which are estimated to take between 80 and 100 hours to finish, let alone throwing its many DLC expansions on top.

Unfortunately, TramSim: Console Edition cannot be completed as it has an "unlock all other achievements" unobtainable achievement: Legend on Rails. It looks like this one has been broken since July 2023, so a fix seems fairly unlikely at this point. Even if it was working, the ratios on many of the achievements suggest it could be a rather time-consuming completion, especially when having to travel 40008 kilometers by tram for the Around the World achievement.

For you Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members, take a look at our ever-growing list of upcoming Game Pass games for a glimpse at some gaming treats coming to the service in the coming months.

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Written by Tom West

Tom has been playing video games since he was old enough to hold a controller, experimenting with a number of systems until he eventually fell in love with Xbox. With a passion for the platform, he decided to make a career out of it, and now happily spends his days writing about that which he loves. If he’s not hunting for Xbox achievements, you’ll likely find him somewhere in The Elder Scrolls Online or fighting for survival in Battlefield.