While critics weren’t too sure about action-FPS High on Life, it seems like players are loving it, as the game is already the biggest 2022 launch in the Xbox Game Pass service.

According to Microsoft, the game is the biggest launch of the year, the biggest third-party Game Pass launch of all time, and the biggest release of a single-player-only game, so yeah, they are breaking records they didn’t know existed.

If you forgot: New High on Life 25-minute gameplay trailer released

The Squanch Games’ shooter concept was developed by Rick and Morty’s co-creator Justin Roiland, so it's not a surprise that this relation has helped the game to be as popular as it is now mainly because uses a similar type of humour as the TV series.

Now, how do we know High on Life got these numbers? Easy, all of the statistics are based on the number of hours played in the game’s first days after release.

Actually, Squanch Games Studio Director, Mike Fridley expressed how impressed they were after reaching this feat:

“This was our first time launching a game with Game Pass, and we’ve been blown away by the response from the players who have made us the most popular game on Game Pass right now. When Squanch Games was first created, it was to make the games we wanted to play – and Game Pass is helping us reach the players that want to play those games too.”

In case you are not familiar with High on Life we will leave the latest trailer below; be sure to try it out soon as it is available not only on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, you can find it on PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.

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