Microsoft published its Game Pass lineup for the first half of November on Xbox Wire on November 3, 2026. The post from Megan Spurr, Senior Community Lead for Xbox Game Pass, details a schedule running from November 3 through November 17 that spans day-one launches, catalog additions, Essential tier classics, and a set of departures.
Day-one releases lead the wave
Five titles in this wave carry an explicit day-one label. Football Manager 27 (PC) starts the run on November 3 for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School follows on November 5, and Xbox calls it the first open world escape room game, with online and local two player co-op. November 10 then brings three more day-one games: Football Manager 2027 Console, Warhammer Survivors, and Tanuki: Pon’s Summer, a game about delivering packages and helping townsfolk on a BMX to repair a shrine.
The rest of the slate is catalog additions and full releases. Void/Breaker hits its 1.0 launch on November 4, an adrenaline-fueled roguelite FPS about breaking free from an endless cycle driven by a hostile AI. Pit of Goblin, an online horror co-op game, is available today. Firefighting Simulator: Ignite lands November 5, playable with up to three friends or an NPC-controlled crew, and MySims Cozy Bundle brings retro re-releases of MySims and MySims Kingdom the same day. Hope in the City, a mystery adventure about a 17-year-old artist named Hope Song, arrives November 11 alongside Thronefall, a minimalist strategy game about building a kingdom by day and defending it by night. John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, an action survival game for up to four players set in a world overrun by zombies, follows on November 12. Aphelion, a third-person sci-fi adventure from Don’t Nod created in partnership with the European Space Agency, closes the wave with Paw Patrol: Dino World on November 17.
Across the 15 titles announced, five are day-one launches. If Void/Breaker’s 1.0 full release is counted as a launch moment, that number is six. Three of the five day-one games arrive on November 10 alone, so the wave clusters its launch-day moments in the first ten days while catalog drops such as Pit of Goblin, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, and Thronefall fill out the schedule. It follows the October Game Pass wave, which Battlefield 6 led.
GRAVHOUNDS launched into Game Preview and is available now on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
The Vampire Survivors formula arrives twice
Two additions in this wave share a direct line to Vampire Survivors. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors arrives November 4 on cloud, Xbox Series X|S, handheld, and PC. It is a hyper turn-based, rogue-lite card driven blobber from the creators of Vampire Survivors, and it now sits in Game Pass Premium alongside Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
Warhammer Survivors follows six days later, on November 10, as a day-one title. It is a bullet-heaven game from Auroch Digital in partnership with Vampire Survivors developers poncle.
Eight classic games hit the Essential tier
On November 15, eight first-party classics join Game Pass Essential: Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Gears of War: Judgement, Halo: Spartan Assault, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata, and Viva Pinata: TIP.
All eight are Microsoft and Rare titles, and they go into the cheapest tier. The newer day-one launches in this wave sit in Ultimate and PC Game Pass instead.
Thirteen games leave on November 15
The departures on November 15 are 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. Subscribers have until that date to play them.
Beyond the main list, Microsoft detailed updates and in-game benefits for existing titles. League of Legends (PC) has a season called ARAM Mayhem: Journey to Stardom featuring music artists including K/DA, True Damage, Heartsteel, and Pentakill. Valorant (Console and PC) is releasing a new Agent named Hush, and Game Pass subscribers have access to all agents. Microsoft Sudoku (PC, November 10) offers ad-free play, double XP, and more Coins. The First Descendant Legacy Bundle (Console and PC, November 17) adds an exclusive Back Attachment and Spray.
