Clear your week. Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass November 2026 lineup runs from games you can play right now to a November 17 sci-fi drop, and the middle of it is stacked. Here is the whole wave with the dates that matter, straight from Xbox Wire.
PLAYABLE RIGHT NOW
Football Manager 27 on PC and Pit of Goblin, the online goblin horror co-op, are both live today. Vampire Crawlers, from the Vampire Survivors creators, joined on November 4 alongside the full 1.0 launch of Void/Breaker, a roguelite shooter about breaking out of a loop run by a hostile AI. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School landed November 5: the first open world escape room game, with online and local co-op. Firefighting Simulator: Ignite and the MySims Cozy Bundle hit the same day.
THE NOVEMBER 10 TRIPLE
Tuesday is the loudest day of the wave. Football Manager 2027 Console arrives day one. Warhammer Survivors arrives day one, built by Auroch Digital with Vampire Survivors studio poncle, and it has a full write-up of its own on this page because it earned one. Tanuki: Pon's Summer rounds out the day: you play a package-delivering tanuki on a BMX with one month to fix up a shrine, helping at the bar, working as a sushi chef, and stepping in as a sumo wrestler along the way.
WEDNESDAY AND BEYOND
November 11 brings Hope in the City, a mystery adventure about a seventeen-year-old who comes home to a ransacked apartment and two missing parents, and Thronefall, the minimalist kingdom builder that also gets its own piece here. November 12 adds John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, a four-player co-op zombie survival game carrying the name of the man who made Halloween. November 17 closes the wave with Aphelion, the Don't Nod sci-fi adventure made with the European Space Agency, and Paw Patrol: Dino World for the kids.
“Wave 1 is the feast before the main event.”
Moe Train
CLASSICS AND GOODBYES
On November 15, Game Pass Essential gets a nostalgia bomb: Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Gears of War: Judgement, Halo: Spartan Assault, Perfect Dark, and both Viva Piñata games. The same day, thirteen games leave the service, including GoldenEye 007, Wreckfest, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2. If GoldenEye is still in your someday pile, someday is this week.
And yes, looming over all of it: GTA 6 lands November 19, outside the subscription, and about to eat the whole industry's calendar. Wave 1 is the feast before the main event.
THE SCORES SO FAR
One game in this wave walks in with its number already posted. Thronefall, landing November 11, carries a 92 on Metacritic and an 86 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic, Mighty tier, with 100 percent of critics recommending it. Everything day one in this wave is unrated until it launches, Warhammer Survivors included. When the scores post, the Moe Train Games coverage carries them, labeled as the industry's numbers.
XBOX GAME PASS NOVEMBER 2026: QUESTIONS EVERYBODY IS ASKING
What are the biggest Xbox Game Pass games in November 2026? Warhammer Survivors and Football Manager 2027 Console on November 10, Thronefall on November 11, John Carpenter's Toxic Commando on November 12, and Aphelion on November 17.
What games are leaving Game Pass in November 2026? Thirteen games leave on November 15, including GoldenEye 007, Wreckfest, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2.
What classics are coming to Game Pass Essential? On November 15: the Banjo-Kazooie trilogy, Perfect Dark, Gears of War: Judgement, Halo: Spartan Assault, and both Viva Piñata games.
Is GTA 6 on Game Pass? No. GTA 6 launches November 19 as a full-price release on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Source: Xbox Wire: Coming to Xbox Game Pass, November 2026 Wave 1
