Summary
Microsoft’s subscription service has on average removed 5.3 titles per month over the first quarter of 2024. This rate of departures saw a noticeable spike in Q2 when the number of average monthly departures increased to 12. The so far biggest exodus of the year was recorded in May 2024, whenXbox Game Pass lost a whopping 14 games, with that month thus being a rare net negative for the service.
That rate of removals still appears to be holding steady, with this next wave of biweekly departures encompassing another handful of games:Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly,Figment 2: Creed Valley,Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion,The Wandering Village, andTOEM. All five of these titles, which boast either “Very Positive” or “Overwhelmingly Positive” user reviews on Steam,will leave Xbox Game Pass on July 15. Historical precedent suggests the games may end up being removed around the end of the day ET, although Microsoft never announces exact XGP library departure times in advance.
Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly
7–16 hours
4–6.5 hours
10–189 hours
11.5–100 hours
Adventure
3–6 hours
In the meantime, achievement hunters with an Xbox Game Pass membership still have enough time to beat at least one of these outgoing titles and add to their Gamerscore totals. Those interested in grabbing every available trophy would be best served to tackle studio Something We Made’s adventure gameTOEM, which can be fully completed in roughly five to six hours, according to HowLongToBeat data relayed by the Xbox app. Bedtime Digital’s action adventureFigment 2: Creed Valleyis also feasibly beatable in an afternoon, although most will find that grabbing all of its trophies is too big of a task to accomplish in 24 hours.
While most of these departing titles were only added to the Xbox Game Pass post-launch,Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterflywas a day-one release. Console users who aren’t paying for the most expensive tier of the service won’t get many more opportunities to play such games, asaccess to day-one titles will soon require an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. The change, which is scheduled to come into effect in September 2024, won’t impact PC Game Pass, which will continue receiving day-one releases moving forward.
While Microsoft’s subscription library typically only removes titles once every two weeks, this month is proving to be a bit of a departure from that pattern. Namely,July 5 already saw Xbox Game Pass loseCricket 22, whereas even more removals are expected on or around the 31st, for a total of three monthly waves of departures.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you can play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
