Xbox has posted the first Game Pass wave of November 2026: 15 games between November 2 and November 17, including five day one launches, three of which land today. Here is the full list with dates and tiers, plus the classics joining Essential and the games leaving on November 15.
A quick correction to yesterday's early reporting, including ours: the first wave is bigger than the initial count suggested. The full Xbox Wire list runs to 15 games. Every one of them is on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, and eight are also on Game Pass Premium. Current US prices, for reference: Ultimate $22.99 a month, Premium $14.99, PC Game Pass $13.99 and Essential $9.99.
Out now and arriving today
Gravhounds, the four player co-op action builder, joined in Game Preview on November 2. November 3 brought Football Manager 27 on PC and the online co-op horror game Pit of Goblin. November 4 added the 1.0 release of the roguelite shooter Void/Breaker, and Vampire Crawlers, the Vampire Survivors spin off, expanded onto Game Pass Premium the same day.
Today, November 5, three more land. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School is the wave's headline day one launch, an open world escape room game with online and local two player co-op. It is joined by the four player co-op Firefighting Simulator: Ignite and the MySims Cozy Bundle, which collects MySims and MySims Kingdom.
The rest of the wave, by date
November 10 is the busiest day of the wave. Football Manager 27 Console arrives day one, Tanuki: Pon's Summer arrives day one, and Warhammer Survivors arrives day one. That last one is the steal of the month: it is built by Auroch Digital in partnership with poncle, the creator of Vampire Survivors, and it costs just $7.99 to buy outright.
November 11 brings the kingdom building strategy game Thronefall and the day one narrative mystery Hope in the City. November 12 adds John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, the four player co-op shooter. The wave closes on November 17 with Don't Nod's Aphelion, which also expands onto Premium that day, and PAW Patrol: Dino World for younger players.
Premium members get eight of the fifteen
The tier split matters more than usual this month. All five day one launches are Ultimate and PC Game Pass only: both editions of Football Manager 27, Escape Academy 2, Warhammer Survivors, Tanuki: Pon's Summer and Hope in the City. Premium members get Pit of Goblin, Void/Breaker, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, Thronefall, Toxic Commando and PAW Patrol: Dino World, plus Vampire Crawlers and Aphelion as they expand onto the tier. Gravhounds and the MySims Cozy Bundle are Ultimate and PC only.
Essential gets eight classics on November 15
The Essential tier gets its own drop on November 15: eight Xbox classics, all playable on console and cloud. The list is a Rare reunion: Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Perfect Dark, Viva Piñata and Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, plus Gears of War: Judgment and Halo: Spartan Assault, which also plays on PC.
Leaving soon: finish these first
Football Manager 26 and its Console Edition leave on November 10, the day the new game arrives. Then 13 games leave on November 15: 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 and Wreckfest. Members get a purchase discount on leaving games until they go, so if GoldenEye 007 or Wreckfest is in your rotation, this is the week to finish or buy them.
One more change: cloud hour limits
Starting this month, Game Pass plans also come with monthly cloud gaming hour allowances: 15 hours on Ultimate, 10 hours on Premium and 5 hours on Essential. Xbox has said pricing for extra hours is still to come. It is a quiet change, but heavy cloud players will feel it first.
Wave 2 is still to come
Xbox has not announced a second November wave yet. Based on the service's usual rhythm, expect it mid month, and we will update this story when it lands. In the meantime, this wave alone is enough to keep most subscribers busy until Grand Theft Auto VI takes over the month on November 19.
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