
Players not only have a choice of which zone they'd like to explore next, they also choose between multiple routes through each that include an inherent risk-reward spread of stages.

While story isn't at the forefront, a lot of character is on display thanks to the game's character designs and snappy menu design - clearly supercharged by Kang's prior experience with UI/UX development. Their goal is a safehaven called Eden, and every death lets players know how close they got to the city until they're just one step away.
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These characters traverse a post-apocalyptic landscape with four distinct environments, each full of magical beasts and rampant machinery. Players have to work their way through eight worlds using one of nine unlockable Heroes (starting with the de facto mascot Saffron). Though One Step From Eden is decisively not narrative-driven, there is an underlying lore. RELATED: November 11 is Going to Be Huge for Xbox Game Pass One Step From Eden's Development Nine were confirmed to replace them throughout the first half of the month in an Xbox Wire post on November 1, with One Step From Eden dropping November 11 alongside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Definitive Edition. Six games are leaving Xbox Game Pass on November 15, 2021, including Square Enix's Final Fantasy 8 HD and WayForward's River City Girls. Indie games and major studio releases constantly cycle in and out of Game Pass, adding a diverse mix of experiences to break up the list of mainstays from studios like Rare.


A draw for Game Pass is many of those studios' titles launch for essentially free to subscribers, yet a lot of heavy lifting is also done by titles like One Step From Eden that are added month-to-month. There are a variety of developers under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella for instance Obsidian Entertainment, Double Fine, Mojang, and ZeniMax Media's Bethesda following its $7.5 billion acquisition announced last September. Microsoft's push for Xbox Game Pass has been day-one exclusives.
