The running Game Pass desk: every arrival in the current wave, title by title, with the industry scores where the scoreboards have them, and the departure list nobody reads until it is too late. November 2026 is quietly the sneakiest stacked month the subscription has had all year.
November 3: Football Manager 27 (PC Game Pass), Pit of Goblin
November 4: Vampire Crawlers, Void/Breaker 1.0
November 5: Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School (day one), Firefighting Simulator: Ignite, MySims: Cozy Bundle
November 10: Football Manager 2027 Console (day one), Warhammer Survivors (day one), Tanuki: Pon's Summer (day one)
November 11: Hope in the City, Thronefall
November 12: John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
November 15 (Game Pass Essential): Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Gears of War: Judgement, Halo: Spartan Assault, Perfect Dark, Viva Pinata, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
November 17: Aphelion (day one), Paw Patrol: Dino World
Leaving 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.
Warhammer Survivors lands on Game Pass tomorrow, November 10, day one. Auroch Digital built it with poncle, the Vampire Survivors crew, so the swarm is in very good hands.
Thronefall arrives on Game Pass Wednesday, November 11. A minimalist kingdom builder where you fortify by day and lead the defense yourself at night. No menus wearing a trench coat.
The first open world escape room game landed on Game Pass November 5, day one, with online and local co-op. Escape Academy 2 is the wave's best party trick.
Xbox Game Pass Wave 1 for November 2026: Warhammer Survivors, Football Manager 2027 Console, Thronefall, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, and a Banjo-Kazooie nostalgia bomb, all with dates.
Wave 1 runs from November 3 to November 17: Escape Academy 2, Warhammer Survivors, Thronefall, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, Aphelion, Football Manager 2027 Console, and more, day one drops included. The full dated schedule is at the top of this page.
Thirteen games leave November 15, including GoldenEye 007, Wreckfest, Moonlighter, and Winter Burrow. The full list is on this page.
Yes. Thronefall arrives November 11, 2026, and it carries a 92 on Metacritic and an 86 on OpenCritic, the strongest scored drop in the wave.
November 10, 2026, day one on Game Pass, from Auroch Digital and poncle, the studio behind Vampire Survivors.
