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Xbox Game Pass is pretty amazing. However, the official website to list games is horrible. It takes forever to load, it's hard to navigate, and weirdly difficult to just look up if a game you care about is available on Game Pass.

Enter https://isitongamepass.gg - a super fast site where you can look up the current Game Pass roster. My goals going into it were speed and easily accessible information. Each card has a game title, a poster image, and the set of platforms it's available on. If you click on a card, it opens up a details view that has links to the store page for the game as well as a description and availability details.

This is something I put together in my free time and is the first website I've built (although I'm a professional software engineer) so I have no doubt there are some bugs. If you run into something, please comment here or send me a DM. Same goes if you have ideas for improvements!

A couple other random things:

Why are some games listed twice?

There's a weird thing where some games have different store IDs on console vs PC. There's no good way I've found so far to combine these listings so they show up twice, once for the console version and once for the PC version.

Why .gg?

It turns out isitongamepass.com is an already owned domain with nothing on it. I briefly had the thought of making it isitongamepa.ss, but you can't really do this because of Nazis.

Things I'm thinking about for the future of this site - More filters, specifically being able to filter by platform

- Improve search functionality

- Find ways to improve speed and responsiveness

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gigel82
I'd really like a filter for local co-op and split-screen games; played a couple of games with the kids over winter break, and it was very hard to find which ones we could enjoy together (mostly older xbox360 titles, newer games don't seem to cater to this scenario).
beAbU
The store app on Xbox allows you to do just that. I think you can open the GamePass list, then apply filters to your heart's content.
arnath
Oh this is a cool idea; I will add it to the list!
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TecgSavySam
May be allow users to add review/ or load reviews from some game sites
JonAtkinson
This is great. I’ve spent some of the holidays implementing a system for managing a games backlog.

What did you use for the cover art and other data? I’ve been using the IGDB API (provided by Twitch? Maybe owned by Amazon/Twitch?), and it’s been awkward to use to say the least.

arnath
I actually just pulled the images from the Xbox API. I unfortunately don’t have a generic source for game images. Does OpenCritic offer something like that?
Sakos
> specifically being able to filter by platform

This would probably the next best solution for dealing with duplicates. Do all the duplicates have the same title? Maybe you could try merging them based on identical metadata.

Also, I think filtering based on genre and other attributes is crucial for browsing a big list like this.

You could maybe also add in-store links that would open the game in the Store app?

arnath
If you click on one of the cards, it opens a modal that has a store link.

The duplicates unfortunately don’t have identical titles. They’re close and I think I could do some matching, but it will be something like “Cool Game” and “Cool Game - Windows Edition”. Except that subtext isn’t the same for everything.

Sakos
It opens the web-version, but it'd be cool if it opened it directly in the Microsoft Store app.

I've noticed that about the duplicates. Some cleaning up will be necessary like removing the TM symbols, yeah. Is there no other metadata you have access to?

edit: Where did you get the store IDs for all the games anyway? Also, those titles are weirdly inconsistent, which is annoying.

arnath
Oh huh I didn't even think of that (opening directly in the Store app). Agreed that the title situation is annoying. The fact that they're even separate store IDs is really frustrating TBH.
bhargav
Are coverarts also different across platform?