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Xbox Game Pass November 2026: Every Game Coming and Leaving
14 games on Xbox’s early November list, 13 leaving on November 15 with GoldenEye 007 among them. Every date, which plan gets what, and the new cloud limits.

Updated November 3, 2026 · next update when Xbox announces its second November wave
GoldenEye 007 walks out of Game Pass on November 15, and it isn’t leaving alone: twelve other games go the same day. Coming the other way, 14 games arrive between November 3 and 17, and eight Xbox classics join Essential, the cheapest plan, on the 15th.
Coming to Game Pass in November
Football Manager 27 is the big one: it lands on Game Pass the same day it launches, one of five day-one games in Xbox’s November lineup. Those five are on Ultimate and PC Game Pass only, so the cheaper plans wait.
Four more aren’t really new. You could already play them on Ultimate or PC, and now they’re reaching console, the cloud or Premium; their cards tell you which.

You run a football club from the dugout: pick the squad, set the tactics, handle transfers and react to every match as it happens. You decide whether to gamble on an academy prospect or sell a star who doesn't fit your plan. It launches on November 10 on PC and consoles, and Game Pass members on PC can play it early, from November 3.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Series | Football Manager |

You play a lowly goblin raiding crumbling crypts, caverns and haunted ruins to feed a ravenous ruler. Every trip into the Pit is laid out differently, with traps and surprises that get nastier the deeper you go. Up to three friends can join you, and they can help you or wander off and cause trouble.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |

This is Vampire Survivors, the game where your powers keep stacking up as you fight endless swarms, turned into a card game you play one turn at a time. You crawl through dungeons full of monsters and build up your deck as you go. Combos work like a staircase: play your cards from cheapest to most expensive and each one multiplies the next card's effect, and wild cards let you keep climbing. Take each turn slowly and plan it, or play as fast as you like.
| Player score | 77 from 21 ratings |
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | Vampire Survivors |

A fast first-person shooter where a hostile AI keeps you trapped in a loop of fights. Every run hands you new weapons and mods to combine, and every death sends you back to try again. It spent over a year in early access on PC, and the November 4 full release brings it to Xbox consoles and the cloud.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player |

The sequel to Escape Academy puts you on a new campus full of deadly puzzle rooms and a conspiracy as old as the school. Its developers call it the first open-world escape room game: the rooms sit inside a campus you explore between them. You can play solo or with a friend, on the same screen or online.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen |
| Series | Escape Academy |

Ignite is the follow-up to The Squad, which leaves Game Pass on November 15, so for a couple of weeks you can try both. You're a firefighter in a big city in the American Midwest, and the flames, heat and smoke spread in real time, so how you attack a fire matters. Calls run from trapped people and electrical fires to backdrafts and explosions. Bring up to three friends, or let computer-controlled crewmates fill the truck.
| First released | 2025 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |

Two classic MySims games, MySims and MySims Kingdom, in one package. You help a town full of cute, oversized characters by building and decorating whatever they need, solving puzzles and unlocking new places as you go. It's been on PC through EA Play since January and now comes to Xbox consoles and the cloud.
| First released | 2024 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | The Sims |

You pick a hero from Warhammer 40,000 or Age of Sigmar and wade into endless swarms of enemies, picking up weapons and evolving them into stronger ones as you go. It plays like Vampire Survivors, the game where your arsenal keeps snowballing while the hordes keep coming, and it's made with that game's studio. Each run starts fresh, which is what roguelite means here, and it's all in pixel art.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | Warhammer 40,000 |

Pon, a slightly lazy tanuki with a part-time job at the post office, has one summer to fix up the island shrine before the festival. You deliver packages, make friends and help them with odd jobs to earn what the shrine needs. Pon also has a BMX, so you can ride around the island doing tricks off ramps and rails.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player |

Seventeen-year-old Hope Song comes home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents, with no note and no warning. She's no detective, but as an artist she notices what others miss, and her sketches become evidence. The mystery gets stranger the more she uncovers about the city.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player |

You build a small kingdom by day and defend it by night, balancing gold between walls, troops and towers, then riding into battle yourself as the king. It's a streamlined take on tower defense, with ten maps and unlockable weapons. Runs are short, so it suits a quick session.
| Player score | 78 from 29 ratings |
| First released | 2024 |
| Modes | Single player |

A four-player co-op shooter where a team of mercenaries takes on a monster called the Sludge God and its endless hordes. You pick a class, drive vehicles across the map and mix guns, grenades and special abilities. Horror director John Carpenter's name is on it, and the tone is gory B-movie fun.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |

Astronauts Ariane and Thomas crash on an uncharted frozen planet, Persephone, and the landing scatters them. You play Ariane as she searches for her injured partner, climbing across alien landscapes and sneaking past threats. It's a third-person sci-fi adventure from Don't Nod, the studio behind Life is Strange.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player |

The PAW Patrol pups head to Dino Island to round up scared dinosaurs that Mayor Humdinger has scattered. You explore an open world as Chase, Marshall, Skye and the rest, look after baby dinosaurs and decorate their enclosures. There are minigames to play with friends, and it's made for younger kids.
| First released | 2026 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen |
| Series | PAW Patrol |
Cover art: Microsoft Store
Leaving Game Pass on November 15
Thirteen games, all on November 15. Some coverage says they leave at the end of the month, but Xbox’s own list says the 15th. GoldenEye 007 is the one that stings: it came to Game Pass in January 2023, the first time Rare’s N64 classic had been playable on an Xbox. Leaving Game Pass doesn’t take a game away from anyone who bought it.

Aliens bring a plague that wipes out humanity except for one immune girl, Iris, and a thousand years later a new society worships her as the Allmother. You play Watcher, one of her servants, who uncovers a secret that changes everything. It's a story-first game about memory, family and history, with very little action.
| Player score | 86 from 26 ratings |
| First released | 2024 |
| Modes | Single player |

Barbie and her horse, Lucky, explore Canterbury Trails Park as junior rangers, helping fix it up. You gallop through open countryside, take photos, dig up artefacts, hunt for collectibles and look for a mystery horse. Friends can join in for side missions, and it's aimed at younger players.
| First released | 2025 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | Barbie |

You put yourself into Dragon Ball here. You make your own fighter, from race and looks to moves, train under famous characters from the series in Conton City, then jump into the story's history to set right what's been changed. The fights are fast 3D brawls, and online you can take on other players or team up in Raid Battles against giant enemies.
from 22 reviews
| Player score | 73 from 122 ratings |
| First released | 2016 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) |
| Series | Dragon Ball |

This is the firefighting game that came before Ignite, which joins Game Pass on November 5. You join a big US city's fire department and roll out to more than 30 locations, from the industrial district to the suburbs, in helmets, boots and breathing gear from real North American equipment makers. Play it alone, or bring up to three friends and split the jobs between you.
| First released | 2021 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |

You're James Bond, working through the film's story one mission at a time, and each one lets you choose whether to sneak in or go in shooting to get the job done. There are 20 of them, with cheat modes to unlock along the way. And yes, the four-player split-screen multiplayer is here too, everyone on one TV like it was on the Nintendo 64.
| Player score | 86 from 423 ratings |
| First released | 1997 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen |
| Series | James Bond |

As the gods' new mail carrier, you suck up speech bubbles and fire them at people to solve puzzles and patch up feuding gods before the world ends. The world is made of puppets and crafts, and the writing is very silly. It's a puzzle adventure with lots of talking and no combat to speak of.
| First released | 2024 |
| Modes | Single player |

Will is a shopkeeper in the village of Rynoka who dreams of being a hero, so he does both. By night he sneaks into the dungeons nearby and grabs what he can. By day he puts it on the shelves and works out what to charge, and the money goes into upgrading the shop and getting better weapons and armour for the next trip down. Half of it is a dungeon crawl and half is running a store, so it suits anyone who'd enjoy pricing loot as much as finding it.
from 14 reviews
| Player score | 71 from 161 ratings |
| First released | 2018 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | Moonlighter |

You play a pigeon working for a secret government unit, hunting down paranormal anomalies across New Squawk City. You catch them with official gadgets, earn money each day and spend it on upgrades and better tools. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
| First released | 2025 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |

You're a police officer in Brighton, a made-up American city, starting with parking tickets and working your way up to traffic stops, accidents and emergency calls. How serious it gets is up to you: one mode sticks as close to the real job as it can, and the other is a relaxed drive around town. Play it alone or with others in co-op.
| Player score | 67 from 22 ratings |
| First released | 2022 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |

It's a shooter you watch from above, with a story straight out of a classic Japanese RPG: lost memories, and a tyrant to take down. You and up to three friends blast through enemies and grab better gear as you go. The twist is the relic, one special item you pick that can change how your whole hunter plays.
| First released | 2025 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) |
| Series | Relic Hunters |

Shipwrecked on a decaying island called Fort Oasis, you scavenge for scraps and craft makeshift weapons while a voice on a walkie-talkie guides you deeper. Reality starts to twist the further in you go. It's survival horror from the creator of Turbo Overkill.
| First released | 2025 |
| Modes | Single player |

A mouse comes home to restore its childhood burrow in a frozen wood, and to find out what happened to the aunt who was looking after it. You gather, craft, knit sweaters and bake pies to stay warm, and make friends along the way. It's a cozy survival game you play at your own pace.
| First released | 2025 |
| Modes | Single player |

You race banged-up old cars on circuits, crossover tracks where traffic comes right at you, and demolition derby arenas, and the crashes are the point: metal bends and cars come apart piece by piece. It's from the people who made FlatOut.
from 13 reviews
| Player score | 73 from 143 ratings |
| First released | 2018 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Series | Wreckfest |
Cover art: Microsoft Store
New on Game Pass Essential
Eight Xbox classics join Essential, the $9.99 plan that replaced Game Pass Core, on November 15. The timing is a little cruel: Perfect Dark, Rare’s 2000 follow-up to GoldenEye, joins the very day GoldenEye leaves Game Pass altogether. All eight play on console and through the cloud, and Halo: Spartan Assault runs on PC too.

Rare's 1998 Nintendo 64 platformer: a bear and the bird in his backpack set out to stop the witch Gruntilda, collecting puzzle pieces called Jiggies across colourful worlds. Kazooie's moves let the pair fly, sprint and shoot eggs. This is the Xbox 360 version, with Stop 'n' Swop items that unlock extras in Nuts & Bolts.
| Player score | 85 from 371 ratings |
| First released | 1998 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | Banjo & Kazooie |

Gruntilda the witch is back for revenge in the sequel, and the worlds are bigger and join up with each other, so you travel between them. The new trick is that Banjo and Kazooie can split up: some puzzles need the bear on his own and some need the bird. Like Banjo-Kazooie, this is the Xbox 360 version.
| Player score | 86 from 178 ratings |
| First released | 2000 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen |
| Series | Banjo & Kazooie |

The 2008 Xbox 360 sequel swaps most of the platforming for building vehicles out of parts. You design cars, planes and boats, then use them to beat challenges however you like. Banjo and Kazooie defend Spiral Mountain from Gruntilda one more time.
| Player score | 64 from 57 ratings |
| First released | 2008 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Series | Banjo & Kazooie |

You play young lieutenant Damon Baird and his team, Kilo Squad, right after a horrifying new enemy attacks and their world, Sera, starts to fall apart. The twist is how the story is told: the campaign is the squad's testimony at their own trial. It's a third-person shooter, so the camera sits behind your character and you fight from behind cover, with co-op and competitive multiplayer. It's also a prequel, set before the rest of the series.
from 9 reviews
| Player score | 70 from 148 ratings |
| First released | 2013 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen |
| Series | Gears of War |

This is Halo seen from above. You move your Spartan with one stick and aim with the other, which is what twin-stick means, through more than 30 missions with the Halo weapons, vehicles and armour abilities you'd recognise. The story sits between Halo 3 and Halo 4, and there's an online co-op mode where you and a friend hold off waves of the Flood, Halo's parasite monsters.
from 10 reviews
| Player score | 65 from 64 ratings |
| First released | 2013 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative |
| Series | Halo |

You're agent Joanna Dark, uncovering an alien conspiracy in Rare's sci-fi follow-up to GoldenEye. This is the 2010 remaster, so it looks sharper and runs smoother than the 2000 original. The multiplayer is all here, with computer-controlled bots to fill out a match, and now you can play it online too.
| Player score | 78 from 34 ratings |
| First released | 2010 |
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen |
| Series | Perfect Dark |

Rare's 2006 Xbox 360 garden game: you tend a plot of land on Piñata Island and attract, tame and breed more than 60 species of living piñatas. You decorate everything, from the grass to the hats on your piñatas. It's a gentle, colourful game with no pressure to rush.
| Player score | 76 from 55 ratings |
| First released | 2006 |
| Modes | Single player |
| Series | Viva Piñata |

In the sequel you head out of your garden, into a desert and an arctic area, to trap new species and bring them home. There are new piñatas to raise, and you can dress them up and send them off to parties. Professor Pester, the island's resident troublemaker, is at it again.
| Player score | 84 from 27 ratings |
| First released | 2008 |
| Modes | Single player, Co-operative |
| Series | Viva Piñata |
Cover art: Microsoft Store
Game Pass plans and prices
Want new games the day they come out? That’s Ultimate, or PC Game Pass if you only play on PC, which costs $9 less. Premium waits up to a year for Xbox’s own games, and Essential is the cheapest, with online multiplayer and more than 50 games.
Cloud gaming limits start this month
Starting this month, cloud play on Ultimate, Premium and Essential comes with a set number of hours. For most people that won’t change a thing: about 4% of members play enough to hit the cap, by Xbox’s own count. If you stream a lot, though, you might be in that 4%. The reason is simple enough: the longer people play in the cloud, the more it costs Xbox to run.
So what happens if you hit the cap this month? You may have to wait. Extra time from the Xbox Store starts at $3.99 for 10 hours and never expires, but for now only Xbox Insiders without Game Pass can buy it, at introductory prices. Xbox plans to open it up to more people in November.
Some members keep unlimited cloud play, at least for now. If you’re in Australia, Brazil, Germany or Poland, check your inbox: Xbox has been emailing members there to say the cap doesn’t touch their current plan, as long as it stays on auto-renew (VGC has the details). Anywhere else, plan on the new limits.
Game Pass perks this month
Three, and every plan gets them, Essential included.
When is the next batch?
Xbox hasn’t said. Its November post runs through November 17, and more games are expected later in the month. When Xbox announces them, they go on this page, along with anything leaving at the end of November.
Playing on more than one system? We keep the same kind of list for PlayStation Plus and Nintendo Switch Online, and on PC, Humble Choice and Humble Bundle come with Steam Deck ratings.
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