What consoles is Mass Effect Legendary Edition available on?

BioWare has produced remasters of the entire Mass Effect trilogy but what formats are they available for and is it on Game Pass?

For years fans have been calling for a remaster of the classic Mass Effect trilogy of action role-players and at last developer BioWare has given them exactly that, with the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

The compilation contains extensive remasters of all three original games – Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3 – plus all their DLC, which adds up to over 100 hours of gameplay.

You can read our review in progress here, with the game available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC. It will work on Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 consoles via backwards compatibility but there are no plans for dedicated versions for those formats.

Is Mass Effect Legendary Edition on Game Pass?

The only games that are guaranteed to appear on Game Pass are Microsoft first party titles, i.e. ones like Gears 5 and Forza Horizon 4 that they make themselves.

Lots of games from other companies do get added but EA titles are a special case as their EA Play service was recently made a part of Game Pass Ultimate.

That doesn’t mean you get all EA games as soon as they’re released though, as brand new titles are only available via the paid-for EA Play Pro service, which is only on PC.

That’s the case for Mass Effect Legendary Edition as well, although if you’re a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber you do get a 10% discount on buying it and other new games.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition could come to Game Pass in the future – it took FIFA 21 only around six months to be added – but there’s no guarantee it definitely will be.

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