Key takeaways
- Xbox Game Pass revealed its November 2024 Wave 2 release lineup.
- The new roster includes six games, but two of them are XGP standard releases that were already available to some members for some time.
- Among the truly new additions, the only surprise is Aliens: Dark Descent, which was not known to be coming to Xbox Game Pass until today.
Microsoft has announced the second wave Xbox Game Pass The lineup for November 2024, which includes a total of six titles. However, two of them are already available on the service and are now only set to arrive in the standard version of Xbox Game Pass.
The popular subscription service has added six new titles since the beginning of November. The latest member of this group has just landed in the form of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
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Xbox reveals the full list of titles leaving Xbox Game Pass in November, marking the month's second wave of departures from the subscription service.
some time ago MFS 2024 Available to play on November 19 at 8am PT, Microsoft announced the second wave of this month's Xbox Game Pass lineup. Along with the recently released Flight Sim, upcoming titles include: Little Kitty, Big City, Plateau, STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Nine solesand Aliens: Dark Lineage. From this group, Plateau and Little Kitty, Big City Available on Xbox Game Pass from February and May 2024 respectively. However, they were not part of the XGP standard library that was introduced as part of the XGP tier revamp over the summer, and have only now been added to it, hence their inclusion in this newly announced roster.
Xbox Game Pass November 2024 Wave 2 lineup
|
the game |
Date added |
Game Pass Tier(s) |
Platform(s) |
notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 |
November 19 |
Param, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
First day release. |
|
Little Kitty, Big City |
November 20 |
Standard |
console |
Available on PC GP and XGP Ultimate from May 2024. |
|
Plate up! |
November 20 |
Standard |
console |
Available on PC GP and XGP Ultimate from February 2024. |
|
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl |
November 20 |
Param, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
First day release. |
|
Nine soles |
November 26 |
Param, PC |
Cloud, Console, PC |
One day (Xbox version) release. |
|
Aliens: Dark Lineage |
November 27 |
Standard, Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, Console, PC |
November 2024: Second-weakest month for Game Pass releases
The only member of this Wave 2 lineup whose arrival was not previously announced Aliens: Dark Lineage. The fact that a third of the roster consists of XGP standard releases highlights a worrying trend that began with Xbox Game Pass starting in November 2024: heavily padding upcoming release lists with titles already available on the service's higher tiers. In fact, when all is said and done, the XGP library only added nine new games during November – barring any surprising launches. This makes November the second-weakest month of 2024 in terms of truly new XGP releases, just ahead of August, which added six.
One silver lining is that the new games on this month's Wave 2 roster are mostly critically acclaimed or highly anticipated releases, e.g. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl and Nine soles. This suggests that Microsoft may be shifting its focus to quality over quantity.
The Xbox Game Pass library has been shrinking since summer 2024
Be that as it may, with seven titles leaving Xbox Game Pass on November 15th and more than half a dozen set to join on the 30th, this month is shaping up to be another net negative for the service. The last time the XGP library gained more matches than it lost in a month was back in July 2024, when it added 12 titles while removing nine others.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest level of Microsoft's flagship game subscription service that offers more than 100 game titles that you can play in a single purchase, making it one of the best value propositions in the Xbox ecosystem to date.
