Netflix-style subscription services are looking like the future of the video games industry, and Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is the best of the lot—at least, if you’re on Xbox. There, $10 a month gets you day-and-date access to all of Microsoft’s first-party games, plus a sizable selection of other titles, from indies like Observer and Dandara up to larger releases like Warhammer: Vermintide II, Doom, and Hitman.

It’s an incredible deal, which makes it all the more irksome there’s no PC equivalent. Thanks to the connections between Windows 10 and Xbox One, PC owners can subscribe to Xbox Game Pass, but you’ll only get access to compatible Xbox Play Anywhere games—mostly Microsoft’s first-party titles. That’s still not terrible. If, for instance, you want to play Forza Horizon 4 or Sea of Thieves for a month and drop it, a month of Game Pass still puts you ahead of buying at retail. It’s sort of an unofficial side effect of Xbox Play Anywhere titles though, and not a full PC-centric service.

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