{"id":85452,"date":"2026-07-07T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85452"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:37:20","slug":"state-of-decay-3-might-not-come-to-xbox-game-pass-after-being-promised-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85452","title":{"rendered":"State Of Decay 3 Might Not Come To Xbox Game Pass, After Being Promised Last Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exactly a month ago, State of Decay 3 re-emerged at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-showcase-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-so-far\/\">the Xbox Games Showcase<\/a> with a new gameplay trailer promising a 2027 release window&#8211;plus the game&#8217;s inclusion on Xbox Game Pass. But the open-world survival game might not arrive on Microsoft&#8217;s subscription service after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/xbox-to-cut-20-of-workforce-plans\">Game File<\/a> reports the company acquiring developer Undead Labs is under no requirement to put State of Decay 3 on Xbox Game Pass. The deal between Microsoft and the unknown purchaser doesn&#8217;t contain &#8220;any Xbox-controlling terms,&#8221; like being on the subscription service. That would take back what was stated when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/state-of-decay-3-finally-resurfaces-with-new-trailer-and-its-coming-to-ps5\/\">State of Decay 3 resurfaced<\/a> last month, as the game was announced for PS5 and Game Pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eoLOzgHvKxQ  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Xbox released details about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/state-of-decay-and-hellblade-devs-are-being-sold-but-buyers-remain-mysterious-for-now\/\">Undead Labs and Hellblade developer Ninja Theory being sold off to mysterious buyers<\/a>. Game File notes we might learn about the company acquiring Undead Labs later this summer. Meanwhile, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-studio-closures-and-spin-offs-everything-announced-today\/\">massive layoffs at Xbox<\/a>, and Double Fine as well as Compulsion Games have once again gone back to independent studios. There were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-layoffs-hit-id-software-and-zenimax-as-focus-shifts-to-bigger-franchises\/\">job cuts at Id Software and ZeniMax Online Studios<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State of Decay 3 is set to feature shared worlds for up to four players, with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly a month ago, State of Decay 3 re-emerged at the Xbox Games Showcase with a new gameplay trailer promising a 2027 release window&#8211;plus the game&#8217;s inclusion on Xbox Game Pass. But the open-world survival game might not arrive on Microsoft&#8217;s subscription service after all.\u00a0 Game File reports the company acquiring developer Undead Labs is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":85454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85455,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85452\/revisions\/85455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}