Xbox Game Pass November 2026 wave 1: every game and date

Microsoft’s first Game Pass lineup for November 2026, posted on Xbox Wire on November 3, lists 15 games arriving between November 3 and November 17 (count by our math), with Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, Warhammer Survivors and Thronefall among the day-one or new arrivals.

What was announced

Xbox Wire gives each game a date and the Game Pass tiers that include it. Here is the full list as posted:

Date	Game	Platforms	Tiers
November 3	Football Manager 27	PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 3	Pit of Goblin	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC	Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass
November 4	Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC	Now in Premium (already in Ultimate, PC Game Pass)
November 4	Void/Breaker (1.0)	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC	Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass
November 5	Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 5	Firefighting Simulator: Ignite	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC	Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass
November 5	MySims: Cozy Bundle	Cloud, Console, PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 10	Football Manager 27 Console	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 10	Warhammer Survivors	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 10	Tanuki: Pon’s Summer	Cloud, Console, PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 11	Hope in the City	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC	Ultimate, PC Game Pass
November 11	Thronefall	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC	Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass
November 12	John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, PC	Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass
November 17	Aphelion	Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC	Now in Premium (already in Ultimate, PC Game Pass)
November 17	Paw Patrol: Dino World	Cloud, Console, PC	Ultimate, Premium, PC Game Pass

Escape Academy 2 is pitched by Microsoft as an open-world escape room game with online and local two-player co-op. Thronefall is a small-scale strategy game in which players build up a kingdom during the day and hold it against waves of attackers at night. Warhammer Survivors comes from Auroch Digital, working with poncle, the studio behind Vampire Survivors.

On November 15, Game Pass Essential gains Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Gears of War: Judgement, Halo: Spartan Assault, Perfect Dark, Viva Piñata and Viva Piñata: TIP (names as Xbox Wire lists them).

Leaving Game Pass on November 15

By our count, the post names 13 games that leave the library on November 15: 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.

Other updates in the post

Xbox Wire also lists Gravhounds in Game Preview as already available, a League of Legends ARAM Mayhem season, a new Valorant agent, Hush, unlocked for subscribers, Game Pass perks for Microsoft Sudoku from November 10, and a The First Descendant Legacy Bundle on November 17.

What we don’t know yet

Each entry carries a date but no release hour, and Xbox Wire only tells readers to follow @XboxGamePass for the next additions. We will add release times or later November games if Microsoft publishes them.