Leaving Xbox Game Pass October 2026: 9 Games Go on Oct 31

Updated October 23, 2026: Xbox Wire’s October wave 2 post confirms nine games leaving on October 31, one more than the in-app list showed: Grim Fandango Remastered joins the batch. Football Manager 26 and Football Manager 26 Console Edition follow on November 10. We re-checked every date, platform and store price on October 23 at 12:15 UTC; no other departures have been announced.

Nine games are leaving Xbox Game Pass on October 31, 2026, including LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Deep Rock Galactic, Wartales and Grim Fandango Remastered, and both editions of Football Manager 26 leave on November 10. All nine October games are currently playable on console, PC and cloud, so you have about a week to finish them or buy them at a member discount.

The October batch also includes Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Full Throttle Remastered, Dead Static Drive, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and Wildgate. Pure Xbox first spotted eight of them in the Xbox app on October 18, and Microsoft then listed all nine on Xbox Wire on October 20. Grim Fandango Remastered is still missing from the app’s own “Leaving soon” row (eight games when we checked on October 23), but Xbox Wire is Microsoft’s official announcement, so plan for it to go on October 31 too.

Deep Rock Galactic, one of nine games leaving Game Pass on October 31. Image: Ghost Ship Games / Coffee Stain Publishing

Games leaving Xbox Game Pass in October and November 2026

Dates and platforms are from Xbox Wire. Prices are the US Xbox Store prices for everyone, checked October 23, 2026 at 12:15 UTC, before any extra Game Pass member discount. Three of the games are currently on sale.

Xbox Wire gives dates but no removal times. Our October 18 version of this article read a 10:00 UTC November 1 end date in Microsoft’s store data as the cut-off, but on October 23 the same field showed the same November 1 end for Football Manager 26, which leaves on November 10, so it is not a reliable removal time. To be safe, finish or buy the October games by the end of October 31 in your own time zone.

Which Game Pass tiers lose these games?

Xbox Wire lists all nine October games, plus Football Manager 26 Console Edition, for cloud, console and PC, so Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members lose access to every one of them. The Xbox Store also offers eight of the October games through Game Pass Premium (all except LEGO Star Wars, whose Game Pass entry has no purchase option), so Premium members are affected too. The PC-only Football Manager 26 is listed for PC Game Pass and Game Pass Premium. Cloud play goes with every game that has a cloud version.

Which ones to play before they go

• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (TT Games, Warner Bros. Games): all nine Skywalker films in one LEGO adventure. It is the biggest name here, and with a two-week window a focused run through a trilogy or two is realistic. Our LEGO Star Wars Skywalker Saga settings guide still covers the PC options.
• Deep Rock Galactic (Ghost Ship Games, Coffee Stain Publishing): the four-player co-op mining shooter, first released on Xbox in 2020. Missions are self-contained, so it is easy to fit a few sessions with friends into the next two weeks.
• Wartales (Shiro Games): a long, open-ended turn-based mercenary RPG, so start now if you want to see much of it before it goes. Our Wartales guide covers the basics.
• Grim Fandango Remastered, Day of the Tentacle Remastered and Full Throttle Remastered (Double Fine and Shiny Shoe): remasters of three classic LucasArts point-and-click adventures, and the most compact games in this batch. Grim Fandango follows Manny Calavera’s film-noir journey through the Land of the Dead. All three stay available to buy on the Xbox Store at $14.99 each.
• Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (Crystal Dynamics): a co-op Tomb Raider spin-off, still $1.99 for everyone on the Xbox Store on October 23, which makes buying it cheaper than most member discounts.
• Football Manager 26 (Sports Interactive, SEGA): it leaves on November 10, the same day Football Manager 27 launches. FM27’s Launch Preview from October 29 includes Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members, so you can start a new save there instead of buying FM26.

Wartales is a long turn-based RPG, so start early if you want to finish it on Game Pass. Image: Shiro Games

Member discount: buy before they leave

Microsoft’s “Leaving soon” row carries the line “Don’t want the fun to end? Save on these games now.” Game Pass members get a discount on games in the library while they are still in it, and Pure Xbox reports discounts of at least 20% on most of this batch. The discount disappears once a game leaves, so if you plan to keep playing, buy before October 31 (November 10 for Football Manager 26). Achievements stay on your profile either way, and cloud saves normally carry over to a purchased copy. If you only stream, a bought copy can still be played in the cloud: Microsoft is testing cloud playtime packs without Game Pass from $3.99, for games you own.

What’s next

The replacements are already announced: Game Pass October 2026 wave 2 brings Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, The Séance of Blake Manor and Mouthwashing between October 21 and November 3. Xbox Wire says it will “be back with more games soon”, so the first November wave, and with it the next leaving-soon list, should follow in early November. For everything launching on Xbox, PS5, Switch 2 and PC this week, see our new games out next week (October 19-23) roundup, and our ID@Xbox Showcase October 2026 guide for the indie games heading to the service.

Sources: Xbox Wire (Game Pass October 2026 wave 2), Xbox Game Pass catalog (“Leaving soon” list, checked Oct 18 and Oct 23, 2026), Xbox Store listings for Grim Fandango Remastered, Football Manager 26, Football Manager 26 Console, Deep Rock Galactic, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Pure Xbox.

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