{"id":619030,"date":"2025-12-08T01:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619030\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:03:15","slug":"heres-what-might-leave-xbox-game-pass-in-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619030\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What Might Leave Xbox Game Pass In January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What’s leaving Xbox Game Pass in January 2026<\/strong>? Well, Microsoft hasn’t confirmed anything just yet, but based on some games that were added to the service this time last year, we can at least make a few predictions ahead of time.<\/p>\n

We know that a lot of Xbox users want more advance notice of games leaving Xbox Game Pass, but Microsoft usually gives us around two weeks right now – and don’t forget, publishers sometimes secure late deals with Microsoft to keep their games on Game Pass, even after they’ve been announced to be leaving!<\/p>\n

So, before we take a look at the following list of potential games leaving Xbox Game Pass in January 2026, we want to stress that nothing has been confirmed yet<\/strong>, and this will not be a 100% accurate list<\/strong> by any means. Some of these games might leave, some of these games might stay, and many others might be added to the list.<\/p>\n

The most common (but definitely not the only) trend with Xbox Game Pass seems to be that games stick around for one year, so we’ve gone back to January 2025<\/a> to look at the games that were added to Game Pass at the time. That said, we’ve also gone back to the January 2024<\/a> list as well, just to see what may potentially stick around for two years in total. Based on those original announcements, here’s what we think could potentially leave Xbox Game Pass in January 2026:<\/p>\n\nDate It Joined Xbox Game Pass<\/strong><\/td>\nGame<\/strong><\/td>\nPlatform<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 9, 2024<\/td>\nAssassin’s Creed Valhalla<\/a><\/strong> (seems unlikely?)<\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 16, 2024<\/td>\nResident Evil 2<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 19, 2024<\/td>\nPalworld<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 25, 2024<\/td>\nGo Mecha Ball<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 30, 2024<\/td>\nBrotato<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 7, 2025<\/td>\nRoad 96<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 21, 2025<\/td>\nLonely Mountains: Snow Riders<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 22, 2025<\/td>\nStarbound<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 23, 2025<\/td>\nNinja Gaiden 2 Black<\/strong><\/a> (seems unlikely?)<\/td>\nSeries X|S, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 28, 2025<\/td>\nEternal Strands<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 28, 2025<\/td>\nOrcs Must Die! Deathtrap<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nSeries X|S, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 29, 2025<\/td>\nShady Part of Me<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 30, 2025<\/td>\nSniper Elite: Resistance<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 31, 2025<\/td>\nCitizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\nConsole, PC, Cloud<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

As usual, there could be plenty of additions to this list, and a few of these games might stick around on Xbox Game Pass for even longer, but it seems likely that we’ll lose at least some of these in January 2026. Our predictions usually turn out to be anywhere from 30%-80% correct – you never know how accurate they’ll be!<\/p>\n

We still have another batch of titles to come to the service this month too, including Mortal Kombat 1<\/a> which headlines next week on Xbox Game Pass<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Which of these are you hoping might stick around? Talk to us about January’s Game Pass lineup down below.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What’s leaving Xbox Game Pass in January 2026? Well, Microsoft hasn’t confirmed anything just yet, but based on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[192808,78779,53,16,15,289,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-619030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-january-2026","9":"tag-leaving-soon","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-xbox","14":"tag-xbox-game-pass"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115681258485517264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}