{"id":535031,"date":"2026-04-17T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:16:14","slug":"free-play-days-try-these-xbox-games-for-free-april-16-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/535031\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Play Days: Try These Xbox Games For Free (April 16-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox Free Play Days has returned once again for the next few days, and although we&#8217;ve only got two games as part of the selection this time around, one of them is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/features\/hands-on-with-south-park-snow-day-a-short-but-sweet-co-op-adventure\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a short but sweet co-op adventure<\/a> that you&#8217;ll easily be able to complete.<\/p>\n<p>That game is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\/south_park_snow_day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Park: Snow Day!<\/a>, which may not be the most amazing South Park game ever made, but it&#8217;s still a fun little hack-and-slasher that features plenty of great humour and bitesized chapter lengths. You&#8217;re literally only looking at a few hours at most to finish the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your full Xbox Free Play Days selection for April 16th to 19th:<\/p>\n<p>Something to keep in mind here is that you need to be an Xbox Game Pass Essential, Premium or Ultimate member in order to access these titles, and they&#8217;re also both on sale right now if you want to grab either of them permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Football Manager is already part of Xbox Game Pass for Ultimate, Premium and PC members, of course, making its inclusion here feel a bit redundant, but we highly recommend at least trying out the South Park game \u2014 it&#8217;s not bad!<\/p>\n<p>Xbox Free Play Days &#8211; How To Download The Games<\/p>\n<p>Search for the game on the Xbox Store<br \/>\nHit the &#8220;Install, Included with Game Pass&#8221; or &#8220;Free Trial&#8221; button<br \/>\nPlay the game!<\/p>\n<p>Checking out any of these Xbox Free Play Days games this week? Tell us in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766613369_65_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Fraser Gilbert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox Free Play Days has returned once again for the next few days, and although we&#8217;ve only got&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[78918,59,696,86,56,54,55,183,1174,1622,695,694],"class_list":{"0":"post-535031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-free-play-days","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-microsoft","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-xbox","16":"tag-xbox-game-pass","17":"tag-xbox-one","18":"tag-xbox-series-s","19":"tag-xbox-series-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}