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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.

Victor · Updated Nov 7, 2026

Xbox graphic reading Coming soon to Xbox Game Pass, with box art for the 14 games joining in the first half of November 2026 on a green background
Xbox’s graphic for the first wave of November 2026. Image: Microsoft

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.

14
games on Xbox’s list, Nov 3 to 17
5
arrive on launch day
13
leave on Nov 15
8
classics join Essential on Nov 15

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.

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.

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.

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.

Essential
$9.99
a month, US
  • More than 50 games
  • No new games on launch day
  • 5 hours of cloud gaming
  • Online multiplayer
Premium
$14.99
a month, US
  • More than 200 games
  • Xbox’s own games within a year of launch
  • 10 hours of cloud gaming
  • Online multiplayer
PC Game Pass
$13.99
a month, US
  • More than 300 PC games
  • New games on launch day
  • EA Play
  • No cloud gaming
Ultimate
$22.99
a month, US
  • More than 500 games
  • New games on launch day
  • 15 hours of cloud gaming
  • EA Play, Ubisoft+ Classics, Fortnite Crew

Cloud gaming limits start this month

Cloud gaming a month, from November
15 hrs
Ultimate
10 hrs
Premium
5 hrs
Essential

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.

Now
Valorant
Valorant’s agents are its playable characters, and Game Pass members get every one of them unlocked, including the newest, Hush.
Nov 10
Microsoft Sudoku
Play Microsoft Sudoku on PC? As a Game Pass member you lose the ads, and the Daily Challenges pay out double experience points and more coins.
Nov 17
The First Descendant
If you play The First Descendant, there’s a Legacy Bundle waiting for Game Pass members: cosmetics that change your look, in-game currency, and boosts that speed up your progress.

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.

Scores and game details: IGDB.com

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