Xbox Game Pass November 2026: Wave 1 Games, Dates and Leaving List

Every Wave 1 game, with its date and plan

The table below is the whole Wave 1 list, in date order. Game Pass Ultimate covers every game on it. PC Game Pass covers the PC list. Premium covers only the eight games marked Premium.

Two games carry a special note. Vampire Crawlers and Aphelion are described as now with Premium and joining Ultimate and PC Game Pass, so they reach every plan by their dates. Void/Breaker launches in its 1.0 full release on November 4, a roguelite FPS about breaking free of a hostile AI simulation.

One more game sits outside the Wave 1 count of 15. Gravhounds, a Game Preview co-op game about bio-engineered space dogs, is available now on Ultimate and PC Game Pass. It is not a November 3 to 17 addition, and Premium does not include it. Add it to the Wave 1 list and you get the 16 games in the announcement, of which Premium gets 8.

The six day one games

Day one means the game lands on Game Pass the same day it releases, so members on the right plan play it at launch with no extra purchase. All six are on Ultimate and PC Game Pass only. None is on Premium.

• Football Manager 27 (PC), November 3: the PC edition of the football manager, where you pick the club, shape the squad and define your style. Read our Football Manager 27 beginner guide.
• Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, November 5: the first open world escape room game, with online and local two player co-op.
• Football Manager 27 Console, November 10: the console edition, with controller mapping and layouts built for the couch. Our Football Manager 27 beginner guide covers both editions.
• Warhammer Survivors, November 10: a bullet heaven roguelite from Auroch Digital, made with poncle. It costs $7.99 to buy, and Premium members do not get it at launch. Read our Warhammer Survivors beginner guide before you play.
• TANUKI: Pon’s Summer, November 10: a cozy BMX delivery game on a fictional Japanese island. You play as Pon, deliver packages, make friends, and help the town repair its shrine before the festival.
• Hope in the City, November 11: a mystery adventure about 17-year-old Hope Song, who comes home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents. You investigate through her eyes, and her sketches become evidence.

What Premium members get, and what they miss

Premium is the middle plan, and Wave 1 treats it as exactly that. Premium members get 8 of the 16 games: Pit of Goblin, Vampire Crawlers, Void/Breaker, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, Thronefall, John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, Aphelion, and PAW Patrol: Dino World. That is a solid month on its own, with co-op horror, a card driven roguelite, a firefighting sim, a kingdom defense game, a zombie shooter, a sci-fi adventure, and a family co-op game.

What Premium misses is just as clear. It gets none of the six day one games, and it does not get MySims Cozy Bundle either. So if the game you want most is Football Manager 27, Escape Academy 2, Warhammer Survivors, TANUKI: Pon’s Summer, or Hope in the City, Premium will not cover it. Those seven games need Ultimate, PC Game Pass, or a straight purchase.

Game Pass Essential gets eight classics on November 15

Essential is the entry level plan, and none of the 15 Wave 1 games lists it. What it does get, on Sunday, November 15, is eight older catalogue games. They are classics joining the Essential library, not new releases, but several are worth a first look if you never owned an Xbox 360.

• Banjo-Kazooie (Cloud and Console)
• Banjo-Tooie (Cloud and Console)
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts (Cloud and Console)
• Gears of War: Judgment (Cloud and Console)
• Halo: Spartan Assault (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Perfect Dark (Cloud and Console)
• Viva Piñata (Cloud and Console)
• Viva Piñata: TIP (Cloud and Console)

Games leaving Game Pass on November 15

Thirteen games leave the Game Pass library on Sunday, November 15, 2026. If you are mid-playthrough in any of them, finish it before that date, or buy the game to keep it. Xbox Wire says to save on them before they leave, so check the store page of any game you want to keep.

• 1000xResist (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Barbie Horse Trails (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Cloud, Console, PC)
• GoldenEye 007 (Cloud, Console)
• Great God Grove (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Moonlighter (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Pigeon Simulator (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Relic Hunters Legend (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Total Chaos (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Winter Burrow (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Wreckfest (Cloud, Console, PC)

Do not mix up the two firefighting games. Firefighting Simulator: Ignite joins Game Pass on November 5, while the older Firefighting Simulator: The Squad leaves on November 15. Only the new one stays.

Do not be fooled by 9 Kings on November 12

Xbox’s weekly roundup for November 9 to 13 lists 9 Kings (Game Preview) on November 12 with a Game Pass tag, and that listing is easy to misread. 9 Kings is not a new Game Pass addition. It joined PC Game Pass in Game Preview on August 14, 2025, when Xbox Wire announced it in the August Wave 1 post. November 12 is the day it leaves early access and launches its 1.0 version for PC, with four game modes, more than 130 cards, and a new Joker mode. The roundup lists it because it is a new release that week, not because it is newly joining Game Pass.

That is why 9 Kings is not in the Wave 1 table above. If you already have PC Game Pass or Ultimate, you could already play it. The roundup shows a PC Game Pass tag only, with no console tag, so do not expect a console release on November 12 either.

Toxic Commando is not a new game

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando joins Game Pass on Thursday, November 12, on Ultimate, Premium, and PC Game Pass. But it is not a new game. Saber Interactive’s co-op zombie shooter launched on March 12, 2026, on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, so November 12 is its Game Pass debut, not its first release. If you played it at launch, nothing about the game itself changes. What changes is that Game Pass members can now play it without buying it, in squads of up to four players against huge zombie swarms.

Check your plan before you download

Four quick steps save you from downloading a game your plan does not cover.

1. Open the Xbox app on your console or PC and check which plan shows on your account: Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass, or Essential.
2. Match the plan to the table above. Ultimate covers every Wave 1 game. PC Game Pass covers the PC list. Premium covers only the eight games marked Premium.
3. If you play on cloud, check the cloud hours cap first, because cloud play has a monthly limit. Our GTA 6 Xbox cloud gaming guide explains the cap.
4. If a game you want is not on your plan, buy it outright or upgrade your plan. Do not assume a day one badge means every plan gets it: all six day one games in Wave 1 skip Premium.

Xbox Game Pass November 2026 questions

Is Xbox Game Pass November 2026 Wave 1 free?

No. Game Pass is a paid subscription, and the Wave 1 games are included in it for members on the right plan. Without a subscription, you cannot play them through Game Pass, and you would need to buy each game on its own.

Which Game Pass plan do I need for Warhammer Survivors?

Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass. Xbox Wire lists Warhammer Survivors as a day one release for those two plans only, so Premium members do not get it at launch and would need to buy it. Our Warhammer Survivors beginner guide covers the price and the free demo.

What games are leaving Game Pass in November 2026?

Thirteen games leave on Sunday, November 15, 2026, including GoldenEye 007, Moonlighter, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, and Wreckfest. The full list is in the leaving section above, and Xbox Wire says to save on them before they leave if you want to keep playing.