Game Pass in November: Toxic Commando, Football Manager 27 and 13 games leaving on the 15th

Xbox has 15 Game Pass additions scheduled between Nov. 3 and Nov. 17, 2026, according to the lineup posted on Xbox Wire. This week brings Football Manager 2027 Console and Warhammer Survivors on Tuesday, Nov. 10, followed by John Carpenter's Toxic Commando on Thursday, Nov. 12. Then on Sunday, Nov. 15, a batch of 13 games leaves the service and eight Xbox classics join Essential, the cheapest plan.

A few are already live. Pit of Goblin arrived on Nov. 3, as we noted in our roundup of November's free games. Football Manager 27 hit PC for Ultimate and PC Game Pass members the same day, a week ahead of its wider Nov. 10 release, and Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School showed up on its Nov. 5 launch date. Editions and launch details for the soccer sim are in our Football Manager 27 story.

Release calendar

In the Plans column, PC means PC Game Pass, which only covers playing on a computer. In the Where column, cloud means playing over the internet from Xbox servers without installing anything, and handheld means Xbox lists the game as tuned for handheld gaming PCs, the ones with built-in controls that you hold like a portable console. “Launch day” marks games that join Game Pass the same day they go on sale, and “new” flags the two that Xbox lists as fresh Premium additions.

| Game | Date | Where | Plans | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Football Manager 27 | Nov. 3 | PC | Ultimate / PC | | Pit of Goblin | Nov. 3 | Cloud, Series X/S, PC | Ultimate / Premium / PC | | Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors | Nov. 4 | Cloud, Series X/S, handheld, PC | Premium (new) / Ultimate / PC | | Void/Breaker (1.0 release) | Nov. 4 | Cloud, Series X/S, PC | Ultimate / Premium / PC | | Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School (launch day) | Nov. 5 | Cloud, Series X/S, handheld, PC | Ultimate / PC | | Firefighting Simulator: Ignite | Nov. 5 | Cloud, Series X/S, PC | Ultimate / Premium / PC | | MySims Cozy Bundle | Nov. 5 | Cloud, console, PC | Ultimate / PC | | Football Manager 2027 Console (launch day) | Nov. 10 | Cloud, Series X/S, PC | Ultimate / PC | | Warhammer Survivors (launch day) | Nov. 10 | Cloud, Series X/S, handheld, PC | Ultimate / PC | | Tanuki: Pon's Summer (launch day) | Nov. 10 | Cloud, console, PC | Ultimate / PC | | Hope in the City (launch day) | Nov. 11 | Cloud, Series X/S, PC | Ultimate / PC | | Thronefall | Nov. 11 | Cloud, Series X/S, handheld, PC | Ultimate / Premium / PC | | John Carpenter's Toxic Commando | Nov. 12 | Cloud, Series X/S, PC | Ultimate / Premium / PC | | Aphelion | Nov. 17 | Cloud, Series X/S, handheld, PC | Premium (new) / Ultimate / PC | | PAW Patrol: Dino World | Nov. 17 | Cloud, console, PC | Ultimate / Premium / PC |

Void/Breaker arrives as its full 1.0 release and makes its Series X|S and cloud debut. MySims Cozy Bundle packs MySims and MySims Kingdom together. Aphelion, Don't Nod's sci-fi adventure made with the European Space Agency, joins Premium on Nov. 17.

What each plan gets

All 15 entries on the calendar are listed for Ultimate and for PC Game Pass, while Premium gets the eight where the table lists Premium. None of the launch-day games marked in the table are in Premium, since Xbox keeps day-one releases for Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Games Xbox publishes itself don't reach Premium on day one either. They arrive within a year of release instead, Call of Duty excluded.

If you stream, every session now counts against the monthly cloud allowance Xbox introduced in November: 15 hours on Ultimate, 10 on Premium and 5 on Essential. Installing the game on your console or PC uses none of it. Our explainer on the new cloud limits covers how it works, and the extra hour packs Xbox is testing with members of its Insider program are in this report.

Eight classics for Essential on Nov. 15

Essential covers online console multiplayer and a library of more than 50 games. On Nov. 15 it adds Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Gears of War: Judgment, Halo: Spartan Assault, Perfect Dark, Viva Piñata and Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise. All of them play on console and in the cloud, and Halo: Spartan Assault also runs on PC.

In-game perks, the items and unlocks subscribers get inside specific games, reach every tier, Essential included. Valorant unlocks its full agent roster for subscribers, including the new agent, Hush. Starting Nov. 17, members can also claim The First Descendant's Legacy Bundle, which has an exclusive back attachment, 10 paints and XP boosts.

Games leaving Game Pass

Football Manager 26 and its console edition leave on Nov. 10, per Xbox's October notice, the same day Football Manager 2027 Console arrives. Another 13 games go on Nov. 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 - Wreckfest

GoldenEye 007 was only on console and cloud, while the other 12 disappear from console, PC and cloud alike. Keeping a game installed doesn't extend access, so finish any save you care about before Nov. 15 or buy the game. Our list of October departures explains the member discount and what happens to your save data.