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Coming Soon​

Metal Slug Tactics (Cloud, Console, and PC) – November 5
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

Available on day one! Metal Slug is making an explosive return! Dive into this dynamic tactical RPG with a roguelite thrill and experience the iconic run’n’gun action of the original series, redefined. Grab your weapons, assemble your squad, and conquer the battlefield to defeat the infamous Rebel Army.


Go Mecha Ball (Console) – November 6
Now with Game Pass Standard


Load up and roll out in this twin-stick shooter with roguelike progression! Blast your way through arcade-style levels, using pinball-like physics mixed with an arsenal of devastating weapons. Defeat waves of enemy bots, battle big bosses, and upgrade your mech between runs!


Harold Halibut (Xbox Series X|S) – November 6
Now with Game Pass Standard


Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of home.


The Rewinder (Console) – November 6
Now with Game Pass Standard


A 2D puzzle adventure game inspired by traditional Chinese folklore. You will take on the role of Yun, a “rewinder” who has the ability to enter people’s memories and influence their actions. By utilizing “senses” and swaying others’ “intentions”, you can change history.


Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (Console) – November 6
Now with Game Pass Standard


Join Turnip Boy in teaming up with the Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time. Shake down hostages, steal valuables, battle the fuzz, and use wacky tools bought off the dark web to move further into the vaults of the Botanical Bank.


Goat Simulator Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – November 7
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

Available on day one! The GOAT is baaa-ck! Lick, flip, and headbutt your way across a chaotic sandbox world where you make the rules. Enjoy wacky physics, upgraded graphics, and DLC classics in one neat package. It’s time to grab life by the horns and set out on an adventure!


Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – November 19
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

Available on day one! From Xbox Game Studios and Asobo Studios, pursue your aviation career with dynamically generated missions, compete against other pilots, and explore the most detailed digital twin of the world to date. Set out on your global adventure with our largest fleet of aircraft as Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 takes simulation to new heights of authenticity and realism. Pre-install today to answer the call on day one!

In Case You Missed It​

Botany Manor Now Available with Game Pass Standard
Explore the historic manor home of retired botanist Arabella Greene, who has amassed a collection of rare, long-forgotten flora that require special conditions to help them bloom. Unlock new seeds, look for clues in the items scattered around the residence, and solve each gardening puzzle to revive these plants.


StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass


Prepare to rediscover a classic. StarCraft: Remastered upgrades Blizzard Entertainment’s original sci-fi real-time strategy game and its acclaimed expansion, StarCraft: Brood War, from beginning to end. Experience the intergalactic battle between the terran, protoss, and zerg with improved graphics and audio, and the same classic gameplay that made StarCraft a global phenomenon.


StarCraft II: Campaign Collection (PC) – November 5
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass


With millions of players already in the fight, StarCraft II has made gaming history. Now it’s your turn to take command and lead vast armies of terran, protoss and zerg to victory amongst the stars. Prepare for interstellar war, commander. You’re needed at the front. The StarCraft II: Campaign Collection includes Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, Legacy of the Void, and Nova Covert Ops.

DLC / Game Updates​

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Nuketown Multiplayer Map – Available now
The original Nuketown is back! This homage to the version players first encountered in Call of Duty: Black Ops is an exact — though graphically much improved — version of the original, keeping the classic 1950s design of the Nevada testing site. Learn more about the latest content update on the Call of Duty blog.


Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Vault Edition Upgrade – Available now
Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members can purchase the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Vault Edition Upgrade to unlock bonus content including BlackCell, which includes the Season 1 Battle Pass, 20 Tier Skips, 1,100 CP, and more. The Vault Edition Upgrade also features the Hunters vs Hunted Operator Pack, five Mastercraft weapons, and the Gobblegum Pack for Round-Based Zombies.


No Man’s Sky: The Cursed Expedition – Available now
No Man’s Sky’s sixteenth expedition, The Cursed, sees players battle against collapsing realities in an eerie twilight zone, with the promise of exclusive limited-time rewards, including the all-new, saucer-like Boundary Herald Starship.


Sea of Stars: Dawn of Equinox – November 12
In this free update, Dawn of Equinox will bring to life the completed vision for Sea of Stars, incorporating everything that couldn’t be included at launch, along with some of the most requested features and improvements including local co-op, combat 2.0, a revamped prologue, and much more.

Game Pass Ultimate Perks​

EA Sports UFC 4: 1600 UFC Points – Available now
Waltz into the Octagon in style in UFC 4 with 1600 UFC Points to customize your fighter with unlockable gear, emotes, profile cards and more. Personalize your fighter and shape your legend!

Leaving November 15​

The following games are leaving the Game Pass library soon. Jump back in to grab any remaining achievements before they go or use your membership discount to save up to 20% on your purchase to keep them in your library!

• Dicey Dungeons (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Dungeons 4 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Goat Simulator (PC)
• Like a Dragon: Ishin! (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Like a Dragon: The Man Who Erased His Name (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Persona 5 Tactica (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Somerville (Cloud, Console, and PC)

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

 

[clarky]

Goat simulator Remastered? Thats sure to keep all those new subscribers happy.

They should be pulling out all the stops. Outside of Flight Sim, which I don't think has broad appeal, what a shit month.

 

[adamsapple]

Starcraft 1 Remastered and 2 landing tomorrow.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

I'd like a perk for CoD Black Ops 6 that keeps your campaign save file.
Lost my save file then had to look up how to get it back when it happens.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[M1chl]

Fuck I can't wait for new Sim, I probably have close to 1000 hours in "old one"...

 

[adamsapple]

I'd like a perk for CoD Black Ops 6 that keeps your campaign save file.
Lost my save file then had to look up how to get it back when it happens.

Should be on the cloud, right?

 

[VolticArchangel]

This month's gamepass standard:

 

[Darsxx82]

Goat simulator Remastered? Thats sure to keep all those new subscribers happy.

They should be pulling out all the stops. Outside of Flight Sim, which I don't think has broad appeal, what a shit month.

It's not the month, it's the first fortnight. For the second fortnight there are also Stalker 2, Slitterhead among others.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Should be on the cloud, right?

I already clicked continue, and apparently if you start a campaign again it overwrites your previous save, even if you can't see it.
I wasn't that far in the game yet, so it wasn't a big deal, but if it happens again, apparently you can change it's folders, uncheck the read-only properties and then have it verify and repair the files and it should show up again. We'll see.
But it's a pretty widespread problem apparently. Might just be the PC gamepass version of the game.

 

[clarky]

Ah of course. My bad.

Forgot about Stalker, Gamepass redeemed.

 

[Punished Miku]

3 new day 1 games is nice, but still a weird line-up. 3 games would be a new low for 2 weeks. The rest are on Standard and already on GP, or PC only.

Metal Slug Tactics is huge for me, so that's great. Pretty much 1 game for me though and that's it. Not great. But yeah, guess I have a new game to play tomorrow. They sure waited to the last minute to announce it. Sometimes that's a cool surprise.

If all you have is standard though, pretty much all of that is great. Harold Halibut, Go Mecha Ball and Rewinder were all great. Beat all 3.

 

[Ozriel]

Goat simulator Remastered? Thats sure to keep all those new subscribers happy.

They should be pulling out all the stops. Outside of Flight Sim, which I don't think has broad appeal, what a shit month.

This month has Flight Sim 2024, STALKER 2 and Metal Slug Tactics.

2 AAA titles and what should be A decent AA title.

Doesn’t seem like a shit month at all

 

[Magic Carpet]

Somerville was interesting. Check that out if you have time.

 

[StueyDuck]

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definitely a stronger month for them, MST and MSFS doing the heavy lifting though.

I think once we get indy in the mix, that plus Blops plus MSFS will be a good reason to grab a month

 

[clarky]

This month has Flight Sim 2024, STALKER 2 and Metal Slug Tactics.

2 AAA titles and what should be A decent AA title.

Doesn’t seem like a shit month at all

Ah of course. My bad.

Forgot about Stalker, Gamepass redeemed.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Metal Slug

Go Mecha Ball is very underrated.

 

[analog_future]

Solid drop when you factor in STALKER 2 as well.


Honestly nothing for me though.

 

[Punished Miku]

Go Mecha Ball is very underrated.

I already bought it. Controls are smooth as butter.

 

[Sanepar]

Big crap month. Amazon prime has a outstanding month.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Flight Simulator and Metal Slug Tactics for me!

 

[Sooner]

Are they trying to kill the service off? Goat Simulator is a headliner?

Nearly two hundred dollars a year to rent games they choose for you. This is what they chose. Best deal in gaming?

 

[Markio128]

Are they trying to kill the service off? Goat Simulator is a headliner?

Nearly two hundred dollars a year to rent games they choose for you. This is what they chose. Best deal in gaming?

Who are they trying to kid?*

Still MS Flight Sim 24 is pretty cool if you’re into that kind of thing.

*pun intended.

 

[clarky]

Are they trying to kill the service off? Goat Simulator is a headliner?

Nearly two hundred dollars a year to rent games they choose for you. This is what they chose. Best deal in gaming?

COD, Flight simulator, Stalker 2,Metal slug, Indiana Jones, MLB the show. All in the space of 8 weeks?

I'm cold on gamepass these days but the sub easily pays for itself with just those titles.

 

[adamsapple]

Big crap month. Amazon prime has a outstanding month.

Are they trying to kill the service off? Goat Simulator is a headliner?

Nearly two hundred dollars a year to rent games they choose for you. This is what they chose. Best deal in gaming?

 

[Punished Miku]

COD, Flight simulator, Stalker 2,Metal slug, Indiana Jones, MLB the show. All in the space of 8 weeks?

I'm cold on gamepass these days but the sub easily pays for itself with just those titles.

Just that pays for almost the whole year.

 

[Utherellus]

Goat simulator Remastered? Thats sure to keep all those new subscribers happy.

They should be pulling out all the stops. Outside of Flight Sim, which I don't think has broad appeal, what a shit month.

New flight sim will most likely have way broader appeal, they went way past the simulation genre and added like gazillion gameplay loops, career progression, enhanced virtual tourism experience and more.

Essentially the game turned into "do basically what you want on Earth's digital twin"

 

[clarky]

New flight sim will most likely have way broader appeal, they went way past the simulation genre and added like gazillion gameplay loops, career progression, enhanced virtual tourism experience and more.

Essentially the game turned into "do basically what you want on Earth's digital twin"

Yeah I know. Its a cool "game" I still don't see it breaking out.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Jeeez. Outside of Flight Sim this is an atrocious month.

Is this all of it?

 

[clarky]

Jeeez. Outside of Flight Sim this is an atrocious month.

Is this all of it?

First half, I made the same error.

Stalker 2 coming also.

 

[Heisenberg007]

2 games + 1 remaster.

 

[Heisenberg007]

First half, I made the same error.

Stalker 2 coming also.

Flight Simulator is also releasing in the 2nd half of the month, a day before Stalker 2. FS is mentioned, but Stalker 2 isn't.

Not saying it is for sure delayed, but there may be a teeny tiny possibility that Stalker 2 is getting delayed. I hope not, though.

 

[clarky]

Flight Simulator is also releasing in the 2nd half of the month, a day before Stalker 2. FS is mentioned, but Stalker 2 isn't.

Not saying it is for sure delayed, but there may be a teeny tiny possibility that Stalker 2 is getting delayed. I hope not, though.

Might be they delay the Xbox version if its coming in extra hot, like Darktide.

Hope not though these dev's obviously deserve a break. Crossing everything that it turns out great.

 

[StabbyStabStabStabStab]

I take it this is largely for GP standard rather than the pricier sub seeing as Go Mecha Ball, Turnip Boy and The Rewinder are already on GP (presumably they still are...).

 

[evolve]

Each month it gets worse.

 

[Sooner]

Just that pays for almost the whole year.

Only if you would have actually bought those games full priced. (Ignoring the fact that you're only renting them and they are gone when you stop renting them or they are taken off the service).

 

[BigLee74]

Black Ops 6 last month
Flight Sim 2004, Stalker 2 this month
Indy next month

That’s some top quality content right there. If MS can keep that kind of cadence going forward, I’ll be a happy guy!

 

[Ridicululzz]

Was gonna say it looks like a bad month, but forgot about Stalker 2. If it's not delayed and getting dropped then that would make it for me

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

COD, Flight simulator, Stalker 2,Metal slug, Indiana Jones, MLB the show. All in the space of 8 weeks?

I'm cold on gamepass these days but the sub easily pays for itself with just those titles.

Don’t forget Ultimate includes online play, which used to run you $10 a month.

But MLB the Show? Wasn’t that added back in April or something

 

[clarky]

Don’t forget Ultimate includes online play, which used to run you $10 a month.

But MLB the Show? Wasn’t that added back in April or something

I don't play but i believe its the '24 edition so maybe the new one? Its listed as entering gamepass in October.

 

[XXL]

This is actually a decent month.

If the PS5 Pro wasn't launching right now, I'd sub to Game Pass for a month.

I want to play Stalker and Flight Sim 2024.

 

[adamsapple]

Flight Simulator is also releasing in the 2nd half of the month, a day before Stalker 2. FS is mentioned, but Stalker 2 isn't.

Not saying it is for sure delayed, but there may be a teeny tiny possibility that Stalker 2 is getting delayed. I hope not, though.

Probably to avoid having 2 big names in the same rollout. Better for the next PR release if they have STALKER 2 as the headliner.

Black Ops 6 last month
Flight Sim 2004, Stalker 2 this month
Indy next month

That’s some top quality content right there. If MS can keep that kind of cadence going forward, I’ll be a happy guy!

Don't think they've announced anything for Jan yet, but Avowed in Feb.

Pretty good string of months for first party and/or day 1 content this stretch.

 

[Punished Miku]

Probably to avoid having 2 big names in the same rollout. Better for the next PR release if they have STALKER 2 as the headliner.



Don't think they've announced anything for Jan yet, but Avowed in Feb.

Pretty good string of months for first party and/or day 1 content this stretch.

Sniper Elite in January. They're not going to announce Stalker 2 in this drop. It's 11/20. They do 2 drops a month. Everyone knows this, including Heisenberg007

 

[soulbait]

Goat simulator Remastered? Thats sure to keep all those new subscribers happy.

They should be pulling out all the stops. Outside of Flight Sim, which I don't think has broad appeal, what a shit month.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 comes to gamepass on 11/20 as well.

 

[Mr Moose]

They just removed Goat Sim right?

 

[adamsapple]

They just removed Goat Sim right?

Removed the original one, was only on PC, but adding the remastered one for PC and console.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Sniper Elite in January. They're not going to announce Stalker 2 in this drop. It's 11/20. They do 2 drops a month. Everyone knows this, including Heisenberg007

Genuine question: Flight Simulator (Nov. 19) is also in the 2nd half. Why is it mentioned on this list?

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Depending on the reception to flight simulator 24, might resubscribe gamepass. Seems like the cheapest way to experience it given how discounted gp pc is in my country.

 

[Punished Miku]

Genuine question: Flight Simulator (Nov. 19) is also in the 2nd half. Why is it mentioned on this list?

The listings will be a little wonky for the next 2 months. Lots of 1st party, bigger content so the rest of the drops are going to be lighter. They probably wanted to count it as part of drop 1 to make it more appealing since you don't need to list 2 big full price games on the 2nd drop, so it probably just barely made the cutoff. And we know December is likely to get just 1 drop, since they do that every year, so letting you know in advance that it will likely happen again. After Stalker 2 and whatever else, we'll get 1 drop in Dec with Indiana Jones and whatever else.

But yeah, usually it's just 1 drop every 2 weeks. The onslaught of larger games is just requiring a tiny bit of tweaking on how they list it.