Battlefield 6 joins EA Play and Game Pass as EA launches a Game of the Year Edition

Battlefield 6 is now part of The Play List, the EA Play game catalog, which means Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members can download it or stream it with Xbox Cloud Gaming. Electronic Arts announced the move in an Xbox Wire post on October 13, alongside a new Game of the Year Edition of the shooter, which first came out on October 10, 2025, according to EA’s editions page.

What subscribers get

EA writes that the game can be played through Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox PC Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate, the tier that includes EA Play. Players who are new to Battlefield 6 can pick up an EA Play Deployment Pack, and every member can claim a Season 5 EA Play Pack, which stays available until January 18, along with recurring rewards each season. Members also get 10% off paid add-ons such as the Ultimate Shortcut Kit and Battlefield Pro.

The post adds that the Game of the Year Edition is not part of the EA Play subscription and has to be bought separately.

What the Game of the Year Edition adds

EA laid out the contents in a Steam announcement and on its editions page. On top of the base game, the bundle includes:

• Ultimate Shortcut Kit: shortcut kits for the Assault, Support, Engineer and Recon classes that hand over fully progressed weapons and attachments, plus the “Mortal Shriek” dog tag and the “Field Training: Cross Trained” title.
• Battlefield Pro token: it can be redeemed in any season and unlocks that season’s Battle Pass with 25 tier skips, a +5% XP booster and exclusive rewards.
• “Trusted Reserve” skin: a new Pax Armata soldier skin for the Support class.
• Phantom Pack: four soldier skins named Crossbones, Mirage, Specter and Wraith, two weapon packages, a knife skin, a tank skin, a weapon sticker, a charm, a dog tag and Career and Hardware XP boosts.

For people who already own Battlefield 6, EA’s store sells a Game of the Year Upgrade for $30.00 (USD). The editions page lists the game on the EA app, Steam, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation and Xbox. In the Steam post, EA counts more than 70 weapons and roughly 700K player-made Portal experiences, a figure it dates to October 5 and says will change.

Season 5 is running

The Xbox Wire post also points to Season 5, which moves the fighting to the Las Vegas Strip, its casinos and the Area 51 military base, and adds a free-to-play battle royale mode called Rapid Royale along with the official launch of Ranked BR.

What we don’t know yet

The Xbox Wire post covers Xbox Cloud Gaming, PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate only. It does not say whether Battlefield 6 has also joined the EA Play catalog on PlayStation, and none of the pages we checked says how long the game will stay in the catalog.