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
- At least eight more games will be leaving Xbox Game Pass on September 30.
- The next wave of departures includes Gotham Knights, Valheim, and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy.
- Xbox Game Pass has most recently removed six titles from its library on September 15.
Gotham Knights and at least seven more titles are leaving Xbox Game Pass on September 30. These departures will increase the number of September 2024 Xbox Game Pass removals to 14.
Microsoft ordinarily removes games from its subscription content catalog every two weeks. It most recently did so on September 15, when Xbox Game Pass lost Payday 3, You Suck at Parking, and four other titles.
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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 lose Gotham Knights, Let's Build a Zoo, Loop Hero, My Time At Portia, PAW Patrol: Grand Prix, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Valheim, and Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Gotham Knights had the shortest XGP stint out of this newly announced wave of departures, as WB Games Montreal's co-op brawler was only added 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.
All Games Leaving Xbox Game Pass on September 30, 2024
|
Game |
Platform(s) |
Added |
OpenCritic Avg. |
How Long To Beat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Gotham Knights |
Cloud, Console, PC |
Oct 2023 |
68 |
17–48 hours |
|
Let's Build a Zoo |
Sep 2022 |
81 |
41–80 hours |
|
|
Loop Hero |
Apr 2023 |
84 |
28–54 hours |
|
|
My Time At Portia |
Jul 2019 |
75 |
68–141 hours |
|
|
PAW Patrol: Grand Prix |
Sep 2022 |
59 |
1–18 hours |
|
|
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy |
Sep 2023 |
82 |
~66 hours |
|
|
Valheim (Game Preview) |
Sep 2022 |
85 |
77–142 hours |
|
|
Warhammer 40k: Darktide |
Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC |
Nov 2022 |
74 |
52–73 hours |
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 for Microsoft to subsequently clarify that Xbox Game Pass would remove one additional game on that date.
Historical precedent suggests that the company's official announcement of the next departure wave will be shared alongside the Xbox 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 of Train Sim World 5, and will be followed by Frostpunk 2 on September 20. Another day-one release is then scheduled for September 24, when Ara: History Untold is set to join PC Game Pass. Xbox Game Pass has already added Star Trucker, Age of Mythology: Retold, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, and Riders Republic in the first half of September 2024.
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