Fourteen games land on Xbox Game Pass between now and November 17, and a subscriber on the cheapest plan gets none of them. The monthly lineup post puts which plan gets what in a line of small type under each title, so the pattern only shows up once you read all fourteen.
Every one of them arrives on Ultimate and on PC Game Pass. Premium gets a little over half, and nothing on release day. Essential gets nothing from it. Its own list, much older, arrives two weeks from now.
What arrives and when
| Game | Date | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Football Manager 27 (PC) | Available now | Ultimate, PC |
| Pit of Goblin | Available now | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| Vampire Crawlers | November 4 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| Void/Breaker | November 4 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School | November 5 | Ultimate, PC |
| Firefighting Simulator: Ignite | November 5 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| MySims Cozy Bundle | November 5 | Ultimate, PC |
| Football Manager 2027 Console | November 10 | Ultimate, PC |
| Warhammer Survivors | November 10 | Ultimate, PC |
| Hope in the City | November 11 | Ultimate, PC |
| Thronefall | November 11 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| John Carpenter's Toxic Commando | November 12 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| Aphelion | November 17 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
| Paw Patrol: Dino World | November 17 | Ultimate, Premium, PC |
Five of those are day one releases, meaning they hit the subscription the same day they go on sale: both versions of Football Manager 27, Escape Academy 2, Warhammer Survivors and Hope in the City. Vampire Crawlers and Aphelion are not new to the service at all. They were already on Ultimate and PC Game Pass, and November is when they drop down to Premium.
Aphelion comes from Don't Nod, the studio behind Jusant, and Xbox says the story was built in partnership with the European Space Agency. You control two crash-landed astronauts on a frozen planet. Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School turns the escape room format into an open world and supports two player co-op, online or on the couch. John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is a four player co-op zombie shooter, and it reaches Premium as well as Ultimate on November 12.
The tier math
Xbox's own plan pages carry the monthly prices.
| Plan | Price | November titles |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | $9.99 | None of the 14 |
| PC Game Pass | $13.99 | All 14 |
| Premium | $14.99 | 8 of 14, none on release day |
| Ultimate | $22.99 | All 14 |
Premium costs a dollar more than PC Game Pass and delivers a little over half the month's additions, because day one releases go to Ultimate and PC only. Xbox's plan page says new Xbox published games reach Premium within 12 months of launch, so the wait is finite rather than permanent.
Play on a Windows machine and the $13.99 tier covers the whole lineup. Play on a console and matching that costs $22.99.
What Essential gets instead
On November 15, Game Pass Essential picks up eight catalog games on cloud and console: Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Gears of War: Judgement, Halo: Spartan Assault, Perfect Dark, Viva Piñata and Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise. Halo: Spartan Assault also comes to PC.
Those are Rare and Xbox back catalog titles, some of them more than 25 years old, and none of them appear anywhere on the November release calendar.
The rest of the month
Gravhounds is already live on Ultimate and PC Game Pass as a Game Preview, Xbox's label for a game you can play before it is finished. League of Legends has started a new season on PC. Valorant's new agent, Hush, is available to subscribers on every plan through Game Pass benefits, and Microsoft Sudoku goes ad free for subscribers on November 10.
Xbox listed these prices and plan assignments on November 3. Both move, and titles leave the library as well as join it, so check the plan page before subscribing to catch one specific game.
