Game Pass November 2026 Wave 1: Escape Academy 2, Thronefall, Warhammer Survivors and More
Every game coming to Xbox Game Pass in early November 2026, the Banjo and Perfect Dark games joining Essential, and the 13 games leaving on 15 November.
Xbox has announced the first wave of Game Pass games for November 2026. It includes day-one launches for Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, Warhammer Survivors and Football Manager 27 Console. Thronefall and John Carpenter's Toxic Commando also join, and eight Rare and Xbox classics, including Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark, come to Game Pass Essential. Thirteen games leave on 15 November, including GoldenEye 007 and Wreckfest.
Game Pass now comes in four plans: Ultimate, Premium, Essential and PC Game Pass. Unless we say otherwise, the games below are on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, and "also Premium" means Game Pass Premium gets them too.
Available now
- Football Manager 27 (PC): Game Pass subscribers on PC can play now, and the full game launches on 10 November. Our FM27 FAQ covers the price, the free preview that just ended and the other versions.
- Pit of Goblin (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), also Premium: an online horror co-op game where you play a goblin, scavenging dungeons, dodging traps and running from monsters to feed the Goblin King-Queen.
Coming soon
- 4 November: Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), now also Premium: a turn-based roguelite deckbuilder from the makers of Vampire Survivors, set in its dungeons.
- 4 November: Void/Breaker (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), also Premium: the roguelite shooter hits its full 1.0 release and comes to Xbox consoles and the cloud, with deep gun modding.
- 5 November: Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), day one: the escape room series goes open world, with online and local two-player co-op.
- 5 November: Firefighting Simulator: Ignite (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), also Premium: fight fires as a U.S. firefighter with up to three friends or an AI crew.
- 5 November: MySims Cozy Bundle (cloud, console, PC): re-releases of MySims and MySims Kingdom, now on console and in the cloud.
- 10 November: Football Manager 27 Console (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), day one: the controller-friendly version.
- 10 November: Warhammer Survivors (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), day one: a licensed bullet-heaven game from Auroch Digital, made with Vampire Survivors developer poncle.
- 10 November: Tanuki: Pon's Summer (cloud, console, PC), day one: deliver packages on a BMX and help a town repair its shrine before the festival.
- 11 November: Hope in the City (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), day one: a mystery adventure about a 17-year-old artist whose parents have disappeared, where her sketches become evidence.
- 11 November: Thronefall (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), also Premium: the minimalist strategy game where you build a kingdom by day and defend it by night.
- 12 November: John Carpenter's Toxic Commando (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC), also Premium: four-player co-op against hordes of zombies.
- 17 November: Aphelion (cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC): Don't Nod's sci-fi adventure, made with the European Space Agency, now comes to Premium too.
- 17 November: Paw Patrol: Dino World (cloud, console, PC), also Premium: rescue dinosaurs on Dino Island, solo or in two-player co-op.
Gravhounds, a four-player co-op shooter where you play a bio-engineered space dog, is also out now in Game Preview on Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
Joining Game Pass Essential on 15 November
Game Pass Essential, the cheapest plan, adds eight older games on 15 November:
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Banjo-Tooie
- Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
- Gears of War: Judgment
- Halo: Spartan Assault
- Perfect Dark
- Viva Piñata
- Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise
Leaving Game Pass on 15 November
If any of these are on your list, play them or buy them before they go:
- 1000xResist
- Barbie Horse Trails
- Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2
- Firefighting Simulator: The Squad
- GoldenEye 007
- Great God Grove
- Moonlighter
- Pigeon Simulator
- Police Simulator: Patrol Officers
- Relic Hunters Legend
- Total Chaos
- Winter Burrow
- Wreckfest
Perks and updates
- Valorant: Game Pass subscribers on every plan get access to all agents, including the new one, Hush.
- Microsoft Sudoku (from 10 November): no ads, double XP and more Coins in Daily Challenges for Game Pass members.
- The First Descendant (from 17 November): a free Legacy Bundle with a back attachment, a spray, 10 paints and boosts.
For everything else launching on Xbox this week, see New on Xbox, 2 to 6 November.
