Summary
Xbox Game Passis losingFigment: Journey Into the Mindand at least five other titles on January 15. These removals outnumber the current list of newXbox Game Passtitles that have been confirmed for January 2025.
The XGP content catalog typically shrinks every two weeks, in the middle and at the end of every month. This most recently happened on December 31,when Xbox Game Pass lost six titles, includingLEGO 2K DriveandBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.
Another half a dozen games are now set to follow suit on January 15. According to the newly updated “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox app, that’s the date when Xbox Game Pass will loseCommon’hood,Escape Academy,Exoprimal,Figment: Journey Into the Mind,Insurgency: Sandstorm, andThose Who Remain. Escape-the-room gameEscape Academyhad the longest stint on the service out of this upcoming wave of departures, havingoriginally been added to Xbox Game Pass back in July 2022.
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Achievement hunters determined to make the most of theirXbox Game Pass subscriptionswill be happy to know that almost all of these soon-to-be-departing titles can be comfortably beaten in just a few days' time each. The only outlier isInsurgency: Sandstorm, whose multiplayer nature demands a significantly bigger time investment.
The “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox app has historically been an incomplete source of information about incoming departures from the service. In other words, it’s possible that even more titles will be leaving Xbox Game Pass on January 15. The complete list of upcoming removals should be confirmed alongside the first wave of January 2025 XGP releases, which is expected to be officially announced in the coming days. That announcement may happen no later than January 7, which is whenRoad 96—the final game from Microsoft’s most recently shared XGP lineup—is scheduled to reach the service.
Looking at the slightly bigger picture,Xbox Game Pass has so far confirmed only five titles for January 2025. While it’s likely to receive even more throughout the month, it’s also bound to lose additional games on January 31. The last time that the service added more titles than it removed in a single month was back in July 2024, making this ongoing streak of monthly net losses its longest one to date. As for the near-future additions to Xbox Game Pass,Road 96will be followed by a trio of day-one releases in the form ofEternal Strands,Sniper Elite: Resistance, andCitizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, all of which are scheduled to arrive in the January 28–31 period.
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.
