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Xbox Game Passis losingAshes of the Singularity: Escalationon September 15, Microsoft has announced. This development brings the number of September 2024Xbox Game Passdepartures to six.
Microsoft typically reveals which games will be leaving its subscription service at the same time as announcing its upcoming releases, which happens once every two weeks. This month marked a bit of a break from that pattern, as the “Leaving Soon” section of the XGP app was updated before the company’s catalog rotation announcement went live. This change communicated thatXbox Game Pass is losing five titles on September 15.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation Is Leaving Xbox Game Pass After 2 Years
But it turns out that this list was incomplete, as Microsoft’s officialannouncement of the first wave of September 2024 Xbox Game Pass releasesmentioned one more mid-month departure in the form ofAshes of the Singularity: Escalation. The 4X RTS has been part of the XGP content catalog for two years, having originally reached it in September 2022. The other five games set to leave the subscription service on September 15 areYou Suck at Parking,SpiderHeck,Slime Rancher 2,Payday 3, andFIFA 23. Unlike these five titles,Ashes of the Singularity: Escalationis a PC-only game, meaning it is only available via PC Game Pass and the Ultimate tier of the service.
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With six titles being set to leave all at once, September 15 will mark a fairly large substantial wave of departures for the service. The only time that Microsoft removed more games in a single day since the turn of the year was back in mid-May 2024, whenXbox Game Pass lost eight titles.
Moving forward,Age of Mythology: RetoldandExpeditions: A MudRunner Gameare both scheduled to launch over the two-day period ending September 5, and will be followed by Ubisoft’sRiders Republicsix days later. Xbox Game Pass will then receive three day-one releases in the second half of September 2024:Train Sim World 5,Frostpunk 2, andAra: History Untold.
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.
