Microsoft has declared that Grand Theft Auto V will be getting back to Xbox Game Pass on April 8, 2021, for the first time since May 2020.
Declared on Xbox Wire, GTA V (Cloud and Console) is one of the seven other Xbox Game Pass games coming soon, including MLB The Show 21 (Cloud and Console – April 20), Zombie Army 4: Dead War (Cloud, Console, and PC – April 8), Disneyland Adventures (Cloud – April 8), Rush: A Disney/Pixar Adventure (Cloud – April 8), NHL 21 (Cloud – April 12), Rain on Your Parade (Cloud, Console, and PC – April 15), and Pathway (PC – April 15).
GTA V was added to Xbox Game Pass in January 2020 and was taken out on May 7, 2020, that same day Red Dead Redemption 2 was added. Read Dead Redemption 2 was likewise on the service for just four months before it was taken out in September 2020.
Microsoft likewise uncovered that more than 50 games on Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) are currently playable with Xbox Touch Controls. You can look at the full list, yet big games getting this update will be Sea of Thieves, Gears 5, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Slay the Spire.
While GTA V presently can’t seem to get a full next-gen upgrade, it is clearly playable on Xbox Series X/S through backward similarity. Rockstar did anyway uncover that, when GTA Online’s next-gen version launches, it will show up with exclusive content.