Updated on September 17:Microsoft has revealed that The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season and TWD: Season Two will also be leaving PC Game Pass on September 30, whereas Warhammer 40k: Darktide is no longer listed as departing on this date. The original story is as follows.
Summary
Gotham Knightsand at least seven more titles are leavingXbox Game Passon September 30. These departures will increase the number of September 2024Xbox Game Passremovals to 14.
Microsoft ordinarily removes games from its subscription content catalog every two weeks. It most recently did so on September 15, whenXbox Game Pass lostPayday 3,You Suck at Parking, and four other titles.
Xbox Game Pass Losing Another 8 Games at the End of September
Another eight games are now confirmed to follow on September 30, as revealed by the “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox Game Pass app. That day will see the service loseGotham Knights,Let’s Build a Zoo,Loop Hero,My Time At Portia,PAW Patrol: Grand Prix,Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy,Valheim, andWarhammer 40,000: Darktide.Gotham Knightshad the shortest XGP stint out of this newly announced wave of departures, as WB Games Montreal’s co-op brawler was onlyadded to Xbox Game Pass back in October 2023. The remaining seven titles have all spent at least one year as part of Microsoft’s on-demand game catalog.
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There is a possibility that even more titles will be departing from the service at the end of September, primarily because this information comes from the XGP app, which can have incomplete listings. E.g., a similar update to the app’s “Leaving Soon” section recently suggested that the service would lose five titles on September 15, only forMicrosoft to subsequently clarify that Xbox Game Pass would remove one additional gameon that date.
Historical precedent suggests that the company’s official announcement of the next departure wave will be shared alongside theXbox Game Pass lineup for the second half of September 2024. These upcoming releases are likely to be detailed before the end of this workweek, so plausibly no later than Friday, September 20.
With 14 confirmed removals, September has already matched May as Microsoft’s joint-busiest month of 2024 in terms of Xbox Game Pass departures. The service has so far announced only seven new releases for September, meaning this month is currently on course to be a significant net negative for its content library. The latest addition to Xbox Game Pass arrived earlier today in the form ofTrain Sim World 5, and will be followed byFrostpunk 2on September 20. Another day-one release is then scheduled for September 24, whenAra: History Untoldis set to join PC Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass has already addedStar Trucker,Age of Mythology: Retold,Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, andRiders Republicin the first half of September 2024.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
