Speed demons can plunge into the narrative-driven world of Codemasters’ Grid Legends, or shrink down to die-cast toy size in Milestone’s Hot Wheels Unleashed – Game of the Year Edition.

We were rather fond of it, especially for its wonderfully hallucinated international racing series, in which Ncuti Gatwa (Netflix’s Sex Education) and Natsumi Kuroda are both rivals and teammates of the player character, facing down the ruthless Ravenwest Motorsport racing team.

Hot Wheels Unleashed, which launched in September 2021, was likewise one of our favorite racing games of that year.

The Game of the Year edition, which includes three post-launch car collections, arrived in September 2022.

Milestone’s title marries high-fidelity racing physics with arcade action, plastic tracks and candy-flake paint jobs spanning 30 years of the classic collectible cars.

Those who want to keep playing those titles can pick them up at discounts up to 20% off from the Microsoft Store before they leave the Game Pass library.