After all the chaos and announcements of Opening Night Live, Gamescom, the Xbox Tokyo Game Show broadcast, the Xbox Partner Preview, and more, we thought it a good time to update and refresh our massive list of all the upcoming Game Pass games to see where we stand for the rest of 2024 and the years beyond. This round-up is a beast, as we’ve included everything that has an Xbox Game Pass or PC Game Pass release date, games with broader release windows, and those that haven’t yet had any release window confirmed.
With Microsoft’s regular Game Pass announcements and release dates flying in from all sides, this list has yet again had a good old shuffle around. Take a look through to see all the games coming to Game Pass over the next few years, ranging from the long-awaited arrival of AAA hits to day-one additions of intriguing new indie titles.
We make sure to keep this article updated as more announcements are made and as games hit the service, so be sure to keep an eye on it!
Upcoming Xbox Game Pass games
October 2024
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Microsoft has now confirmed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will join Game Pass on day one when it launches on October 25 as a spy action thriller set in the 1990s. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will introduce a new campaign along with modes including Classic Prestige, Theater Mode, and Round-Based Zombies.
Ashen
Open-world co-op action-RPG Ashen comes to Game Pass on October 29. It leaves you to choose how you’ll interact with the other players you might come across, as you can trust them enough to team up, or continue on alone in a highly dangerous world.
Dead Island 2
The PC version of the Zombie-filled, first-person action-RPG Dead Island 2 lands in PC Game Pass and Ultimate on October 31 as the perfect spooky choice for the day. On console, Dead Island 2 is currently available with Game Pass Standard.
November 2024
StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection
The Xbox Tokyo Game Show broadcast confirmed that sci-fi RTS games StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft II: Campaign Collection will be available for PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate members on November 5.
Goat Simulator: Remastered
In what proved to be one of the best trailers of Gamescom, Goat Simulator: Remastered was announced and confirmed to come to Game Pass on day one in 2024. It now has a release date of November 7.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is the next iteration of the Microsoft Flight Sim series, and luckily, as the name suggests, has a 2024 release date: it’ll join Xbox and PC Game Pass on November 19, and promises to be even more ambitious than the previous game.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl brings first-person shooter action to Xbox Game Pass at launch, when we’ll be exploring a post-nuclear open world. Developer GSC Game World is based in Ukraine and shared an emotional video diary explaining its situation. The game has been delayed several times, and has now been pushed back from September to November 20.
Genshin Impact
It was a huge announcement at Gamescom to hear that open-world adventure-RPG Genshin Impact will be coming to Xbox and Game Pass, as it’s only been available for PlayStation and PC for the last few years. Genshin Impact heads to Xbox on November 20.
Nine Sols
2D action-platformer Nine Sols blends Eastern mythology and cyberpunk in a “Taopunk” world and sees you setting out to defeat the nine Sols themselves. It comes to Xbox Game Pass on day one on November 26.
December 2024
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle
Machine Games’ first-person action-adventure game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is set between the Raider of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade movies, and has now confirmed its Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass release date as December 9.
2024
Sopa
Narrative adventure game Sopa was originally due to join Game Pass in August, but it has now been delayed. Miho heads to the pantry on a seemingly simple mission to get a potato for his grandma’s soup, and is instead taken to a strange land — what’s more, every time he manages to make it back to the kitchen with another ingredient, things have somehow changed.
Pigeon Simulator
Pigeon Simulator asks you to “Become a pigeon. Poop on everyone. Destroy everything,” when it comes to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox Game Pass at some point in 2024. Not only are you a pigeon, you’re apparently a time-traveling pigeon, who’s been sent through time to thwart a goose. Chaos!
Dead Static Drive
Indie survival horror title Dead Static Drive — which has already spent almost a decade in development — can now at last be shifted into the “2024” section of this list.
Commandos: Origins
It doesn’t have a specific release date yet, but real-time tactics game Commandos: Origins will join Xbox Game Pass on day one in 2024.
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
Likewise, CI Games announced “modern warfare shooter” Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 would be joining the service in 2024, but without an exact date.
Ark II
Survival game Ark II has seen a big delay — instead of launching in 2023 as originally planned, Ark II will now launch at the end of 2024, when it will star Vin Diesel as Santiago and Auli’i Cravalho as his daughter Meeka. Expect it to expand heavily on the scale and scope of its popular dino-packed predecessor.
2025
Avowed
First-person RPG Avowed was announced in 2020 and has been delayed from its initial fall 2024 release window to February 18, 2025. It’s set in the fantasy world of Eora, and is set to join Xbox Game Pass at launch — you can check out our round-up of everything we know about Avowed in the meantime!
Atomfall
Survival-action game Atomfall is set to come to Xbox Game Pass on day one, and has now narrowed down its release window to March 2025. Set in Britain, Atomfall is inspired by a real nuclear disaster which took place in 1957, and “blends post-war Britain with Cold War paranoia, folk horror, and elements of classic British sci-fi like Day of the Triffids, Doctor Who, and The Prisoner, to create an immersive and thrilling gameplay experience.”Football Manager 25 has pushed back its Game Pass release from November 26, and will now arrive in March 2025, with two versions available: Football Manager 25 (Windows) for PC Game Pass and Football Manager 25 Console for both Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
Winter Burrow
One unexpectedly cozy announcement from Xbox Games Showcase 2024 was Winter Burrow, which comes to Xbox Game Pass in early 2025 as a woodland survival game about a small mouse and their efforts to restore their childhood home, survive the wilds, and find out what happened to their missing Aunt.
Eternal Strands
Third-person fantasy action-adventure game Eternal Strands launches into Xbox Game Pass in early 2025, putting you in the shoes of Brynn, a young magic-wielder known as a Weaver.
Wheel World
Wheel World was first revealed under the name Ghost Bike during an Annapurna Interactive Showcase as an adventure game in which you play as “a streetwise kid from Freehub City on a mission to revive the last of the Ghost Bikes” — those who can traverse between the living world and the world of the dead. It was initially set to hit Game Pass in 2024, but has now been renamed as Wheel World and delayed to early 2025.
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Citizen Sleeper’s sequel, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector will see you gathering a crew, manning a ship, and navigating the Starward Belt. It doesn’t yet have a release date, but is set to come to Xbox Game Pass at launch in early 2025.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a new turn-based RPG, inspired by Belle Époque France and charting the story of Expedition 33 as they fight to defeat the Paintress to stop her from “painting death.” It looks beautiful, creepy, and all kinds of intriguing, and has narrowed down its Game Pass release window to spring 2025.
Replaced
Retro sci-fi 2D adventure Replaced has now been delayed from 2024 to 2025. We’ll play as Reach, an AI trapped in a human body, and will explore and fight our way through Phoenix City. The pixel art here is some next-level stuff…
33 Immortals
Spiritfarer devs Thunder Lotus Games announced 33 Immortals as a “co-op action-roguelike for 33 players” where you’re a “damned soul” going against “God’s final judgement.” Its Early Access release window has been pushed back from 2024 to 2025.
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die
Lost in Random: The Eternal Die is set to come to Game Pass in 2025. The sequel makes some changes to its predecessor’s action-adventure setup, and will instead be a roguelite adventure set in the same world of Random.
FBC: Firebreak
FBC: Firebreak is a three-player co-op first-person shooter which is set to launch into Xbox Game Pass in 2025.
Subnautica 2
We are at last getting a Subnautica sequel, with Subnautica 2 coming to Game Pass via Game Preview in 2025 and taking us to a new alien planet.
Sniper Elite: Resistance
Rebellion announced Sniper Elite: Resistance during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, and confirmed it would come to Game Pass as a day-one addition in 2025.
The Alters
Sci-fi survival adventure game The Alters tells the bizarre story of Jan, who needs the help of alternate versions of himself to survive after crashing onto a strange planet. The Alters has been delayed and will now come to Xbox Game Pass and PC Game pass in 2025.
Sleight of Hand
Previously the first lonely entry into the “2025” section of this list, Sleight of Hand hits Game Pass next year, bringing an interesting mix of deckbuilding and stealth action, magic, the occult, and more.
South of Midnight
South of Midnight is a third-person action-adventure game set in the American Deep South with a focus on magic realism. The most recent Xbox Games Showcase confirmed a South of Midnight release window of 2025, and it’ll launch straight into Xbox Game Pass.
Fable
Here’s one we’ve been waiting for for a while: Fable was announced back in 2020 as a “new beginning for the legendary franchise” with “fantastical creatures and wondrous places,” and after a long wait, we now have confirmation that it’ll launch in 2025 when it will join Xbox Game Pass on day one. In the meantime, check out our round-up of everything we know about Fable!
Doom: The Dark Ages
Doom: The Dark Ages heads to Xbox Game Pass in 2025 as a single-player action FPS prequel to Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal, telling the story of the Doom Slayer and the war against Hell.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers
Soulslike action-RPG Wuchang: Fallen Feathers was also announced during the Xbox Games Showcase as a day-one Game Pass addition arriving in 2025. Set in the Ming Dynasty, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers sees us play as pirate warrior Bai Wuchang, who is cursed with “Ornithropy.”
Mixtape
The Artful Escape developers Beethoven & Dinosaur announced Mixtape during Xbox Games Showcase 2024 as a day-one Game Pass addition for 2025, when it’ll tell the story of three friends on the verge of leaving high school. As they head to their last party, we play through some of the most important moments of their friendship.
Unknown
Nirvana Noir
Noir adventure game Nirvana Noir is currently set as “coming soon” to Game Pass, and it sounds like a chaotic one. “The city of cosmic beings is under threat in two parallel realities — one where the Big Bang was never fired, the other exploding in color and sin. It’s up to you to solve the mysteries of the Bigger Bang in this follow up to the award-winning Genesis Noir.”
Volcano Princess
Volcano Princess, a parenting-sim-RPG adventure, is also coming “soon” to Game Pass, asking us to raise the next monarch of the Volcano Kingdom.
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong is the long-awaited sequel to Hollow Knight, so it’s great to hear that it’s coming to Xbox Game Pass at launch, even though we don’t have a specific release date yet. If you like Ori but wish the games were darker and more challenging, keep an eye on this (and go play the original in the meantime, it’s ace).
Vapor World
Action-adventure platforming game Vapor World — which looks to have a similar feel to Lies of P — doesn’t yet have a release date, but is set to come to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox Game Pass at launch.
Towerborne
Towerborne was announced as a new action-adventure game from Stoic Studio, the creators of Banner Saga, with a 2024 release window. This has since been adjusted: the game will now launch in full as a free-to-play title in 2025, but will first launch for Steam Early Access on September 10, followed by Xbox Game Preview. Since we don’t yet have a release date for Xbox Game Preview or the 2025 full launch, we’ll keep this one in “unknown” for now.
Voidtrain
Open-world survival game Voidtrain is in “unknown” for now since it’s a little unclear what’s going on with its release windows. At Gamescom, the devs shared an Xbox Game Preview release window of fall 2024, but the trailer also mentions Xbox Game Pass alongside a Q1 2025 release window. We’ll move this one as soon as we learn whether it will be available in Game Pass via Xbox Game Preview in the fall.
Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem
Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem is an upcoming action game where we play as Clementine McKinney as she fights her way across a post-post apocalyptic desert in a rather snazzy mech. It was delayed from 2023 into early 2024, but since early 2024 has been and gone and we’ve heard nothing on this one, we’ve moved it into “unknown.”
Clockwork Revolution
Clockwork Revolution was announced during the Xbox Games Showcase as a steampunk first-person RPG and a big project for developer inXile entertainment. The announce trailer has a Bioshock look about it, but we don’t yet have a release date or window for this one.
Contraband
Contraband was announced as a “co-op smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan” — we don’t yet have a release date for this one, which seems a little way off yet, but we’ll keep an eye out.
Gears of War: E-Day
One surprise announcement from 2024’s Xbox Games Showcase was Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel which takes place 14 years before Gears of War and follows Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago as they battle the Locust Horde. There’s no release window for this one yet, but it’ll come to Xbox Game Pass on day one.
Harmonium The Musical
Harmonium The Musical is a narrative adventure and an interactive sign language musical. Announced at The Game Awards 2023, it was confirmed as coming to Game Pass on day one, but doesn’t yet have a release date.
Everwild
Everwild, revealed back in 2019, is another one that seems to have disappeared after its announcement, although a report suggested Everwild is targeting a 2024 release after being “restarted from scratch”. We’ve heard no official update on when Everwild might emerge, so here it goes, into the “unknown” section.
TO A T
TO A T is a narrative adventure game which comes from Katamari Damacy game designer Keita Takahashi about a teenager (called Teen) with “an odd posture” as they go through life in their small town, attending school and dealing with bullies, until a new ability changes everything.
Bushiden
Bushiden is an action-adventure game with platforming elements — details are pretty scarce at the moment but it seems that in Bushiden we are dealing both with the disappearance of our sister and the fact that the evil Gaoh has returned with an “cybergentic army” which we’ll need to defeat. It was confirmed back in 2021 that Bushiden would join Xbox Game Pass on day one, but we don’t yet know a release date.
Marauders
Marauders is described as a first-person multiplayer sci-fi dieselpunk looter shooter where we play as a space pirate — it was meant to launch into Game Preview for PC Game Pass in 2022, but we’ve not yet heard word of a new release date.
Routine
First-person sci-fi horror game Routine was announced back in 2012, and then seemed to vanish until it was re-revealed back in June of this year. It’s set to join Xbox Game Pass at launch, whenever that launch may be.
So, what do you think? Anything on there catch your eye, or take you by surprise? What do you think of the gaming horizon for Xbox Game Pass? Let us know what you think in the comments, and don’t forget to check the full list of Xbox Game Pass games to see what’s already in the library.
