Game Pass November 2026: every game coming, 13 leaving and what each tier gets

Xbox Game Pass has 16 games scheduled between November 3 and November 17, 2026. Two arrived on November 3 and five more by November 5. Football Manager 27 Console, Warhammer Survivors and Tanuki: Pon's Summer come on November 10, Hope in the City and Thronefall on November 11, and Aphelion on November 17. On November 15, 13 games leave the service, among them GoldenEye 007, Wreckfest, Moonlighter and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. Game Pass Essential gets eight Xbox classics the same day. In the US, Ultimate costs $22.99 a month, Premium $14.99, Essential $9.99 and PC Game Pass $13.99.

Microsoft posted the schedule on Xbox Wire on November 3, 2026. The dates below come from that post and from the Xbox release list for November 9 to 13, which adds a Game Preview, meaning an early-access build, for PC. Xbox gives dates, not unlock times, and says release dates can change.

Every game coming to Game Pass in November 2026

The table covers the first wave in date order. Handheld marks games Xbox lists as tuned for handheld PCs, such as the ROG Xbox Ally line.

Gravhounds, a Game Preview, is already in the library on Ultimate and PC Game Pass and isn't counted above. Six of the games launch on Game Pass on day one: Football Manager 27 on both PC and console, Escape Academy 2, Warhammer Survivors, Tanuki: Pon's Summer and Hope in the City. Xbox calls Escape Academy 2 the first open-world escape room game. It supports two players online or on one couch.

Which Game Pass plan gets which November games

The plan decides which of the 16 games you get. Xbox lists Ultimate and PC Game Pass for 15 of them. The 16th, 9 Kings, carries only the PC Game Pass label. Premium gets only some of them: Pit of Goblin, Vampire Crawlers, Void/Breaker, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, Thronefall, Toxic Commando, Aphelion and Paw Patrol: Dino World. That's eight of 16.

Premium's eight are mostly smaller releases from other publishers, plus two that Xbox marks as now with Premium and joining the other plans: Vampire Crawlers and Aphelion. The day-one launches, such as Hope in the City, Warhammer Survivors and Escape Academy 2, stay on Ultimate and PC this month.

Essential gets none of the new releases. Its library grows by eight older games instead, all on November 15 (details below). Microsoft's plan page says Essential "does not include new release titles on day one."

Cloud play also depends on the plan. Most of the November games list cloud as a platform, but PC Game Pass doesn't include cloud gaming at all. Microsoft's plan page puts monthly cloud time at 15 hours on Ultimate, 10 on Premium and 5 on Essential. Our story on Xbox cloud gaming limits explains how the hour caps and the extra-time packs work.

Game Pass Essential gets eight Xbox classics on November 15

Essential, the $9.99 plan that covers online console multiplayer, gets the month's only batch of older first-party games. On November 15, 2026, eight games join it:

Halo: Spartan Assault is the only one of the eight listed for PC. The other seven run on Xbox consoles and in the cloud.

The post lists them under Essential only and doesn't say whether Premium and Ultimate get them as well. For an Essential member, this is the month's biggest library addition, as the plan's catalog is listed at 50-plus games.

Games leaving Game Pass on November 15, 2026

Thirteen games leave the service on November 15, 2026. Xbox lists every one of them as playable on console and in the cloud, and all but GoldenEye 007 on PC as well:

GoldenEye 007 is the departure most players will notice. It is the only one of the 13 that Xbox doesn't list for PC, so a PC member who wants to finish it has to play on a console or stream it before it goes. The swap with Firefighting Simulator: Ignite is neater: the new game arrived on November 5, ten days before The Squad, the earlier game in that series, leaves.

Game Pass prices in November 2026

These are the US list prices in the Microsoft Store catalog on November 8, 2026:

Ultimate cost $29.99 a month until April 21, 2026, when Microsoft cut it to $22.99 and cut PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99. The same announcement changed how Call of Duty works on the service. New Call of Duty games no longer join Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. They arrive during the following holiday season, about a year later, while the series' older games stay in the library.

Xbox's plan page offers new members a $1 start on two plans: the first month of Essential, or the first 14 days of Premium. After that, the plan renews at its monthly price.

Game Pass perks, EA Play and the new Xbox PC app this month

The November post also lists in-game perks, which reach members on every plan, Essential included:

• Valorant: Game Pass members get the new agent, Hush, on console and PC now.
• Microsoft Sudoku: from November 10, members on PC get ad-free play, double XP and more coins in the daily challenges. Ultimate also covers the mobile version.
• The First Descendant: from November 17, a Legacy bundle for Season 4, Episode 2, with an exclusive back attachment, a spray and 10 paints, on console and PC.

EA Play, the Electronic Arts library that comes with Ultimate and PC Game Pass, added two games on November 5, 2026: Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted and MySims: Cozy Bundle. MySims is also on the Game Pass list above, so Ultimate members get it either way.

The Xbox app is changing too. On November 5, Microsoft opened a new version of the Xbox PC app to Xbox Insiders, its free preview program. Microsoft says the app launches up to 60% faster and the Home, Store and Game Pass pages load up to 50% faster, based on its own tests. The web version at play.xbox.com gets a Library tab that lists every cloud-playable game a player owns or can reach through Game Pass, with filters by genre and input. Microsoft says it will reach more players automatically over the next few weeks. A refreshed look for the cloud gaming apps on TVs and VR headsets is starting to roll out, with no dates given.

What we don't know yet about late November

The first wave runs to November 17, 2026. Xbox hasn't posted the games for the rest of the month, and it hasn't named the next batch leaving. The November 3 post doesn't mention a Black Friday deal on memberships either.

Two big November releases aren't on the Game Pass list. Grand Theft Auto VI isn't a Game Pass game: its Xbox pre-install opens November 10, and our guide to GTA 6 storage on PS5 and Xbox covers how much space it needs. This year's Call of Duty falls under the April rule, so it won't join Ultimate until about a year after launch.

For a handheld player the list is better than usual. Five of the new games carry Xbox's Handheld mark: Vampire Crawlers, Escape Academy 2, Warhammer Survivors, Thronefall and Aphelion. Those are the ones Xbox lists as tuned for devices like the ROG Xbox Ally X20, where a controller-only layout and small-screen text matter.