{"id":1079880,"date":"2026-07-10T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1079880\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:01:19","slug":"free-play-days-try-these-xbox-games-for-free-july-9-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1079880\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (July 9-12)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thursday has swung right back around again, and so it’s time for a new batch of Xbox Free Play Day titles!<\/p>\n

There are three games to get stuck into this weekend, and we’re especially stoked that some of you will get to experience the brilliant sci-fi survival game The Alters<\/a> for the first time. In addition to our personal recommendation, fans of diamonds, baseballs and all that whatnot can hop into MLB The Show 26<\/a>, whilst STUFFED<\/a> offers a “spooky teddy bear” first-person co-op shooter – if murderising garden gnomes is your thing.<\/p>\n

Here is Xbox’s latest Free Play Days lineup:<\/p>\n

It’s not always the case, but on this occasion in order to give these games a go you’ll need to have some sort of subscription to XGP. That can be Ultimate, Premium or even Essential.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting, however, is The Alters is already included with the XGP Ultimate, Premium and PC tiers, meaning this weekend gives Essential subscribers the chance to have a go too.<\/p>\n

All three will be available to play until late on July 12th, and two of the three are on sale if you fancy buying after you’ve tried – both MLB The Show 26 and The Alters are currently 50% off whilst STUFFED remains full price.<\/p>\n

Xbox Free Play Days – How To Download The Games<\/p>\n

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  1. Search for the game on the Xbox Store<\/li>\n
  2. Hit the “Install, Included with Game Pass” or “Free Trial” button<\/li>\n
  3. Play the game!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Checking out any of these Xbox Free Play Days games this week? Tell us in the comments below.<\/p>\n

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    \"Craig<\/p>\n

    Craig was a Video Producer at Pure Xbox, where he covered the biggest games in the world of Xbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday has swung right back around again, and so it’s time for a new batch of Xbox Free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1079881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[295634,507,53,16,15,289,515,293,292,291],"class_list":["post-1079880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-free-play-days","tag-microsoft","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-game-pass","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-s","tag-xbox-series-x"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116893928087356664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}