In a nutshell

• Three new Xbox Game Pass plans launched: Essential replaces Core, Premium replaces Standard, and Ultimate remains with expanded benefits.
• Xbox Game Pass Pricing updates (US): Essential is set at $9.99/month, Premium at $14.99/month, and Ultimate is now $29.99/month, reflecting added benefits and day‑one content.
• Upside for subscribers: Ultimate now includes more day‑one releases (over 75 per year), Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics, improved cloud quality (up to 1440p), and boosted Rewards with Xbox earning potential.
• Library growth: Microsoft added more than 40–45+ games to the service today across the plans.

Microsoft has announced that Xbox Game Pass is getting revamped, along with new pricing that sees an unfortunate price increase for Game Pass Ultimate.

Xbox Game Pass is introducing three new plans: Essential, Premium, and Ultimate, each featuring new features, expanded libraries, upgraded cloud streaming quality, and updated pricing for select regions.

Xbox Game Pass Pricing

What each Xbox Game Pass plan now includes

Here’s what players can expect from the new Xbox Game Pass tiers:

• Essential: Curated catalog of 50+ games on console and PC, unlimited cloud gaming, online multiplayer, in‑game benefits, and Rewards with Xbox.
• Premium: Access to 200+ games across console, PC and cloud, unlimited cloud gaming, newly added PC playability for many titles, in‑game benefits for major live games, and enhanced Rewards value.
• Ultimate: Over 400 games across console, PC and cloud, access to 75+ day‑one releases per year, Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics inclusion, highest-quality cloud streaming and expanded Rewards perks.

Full list of new games joining Xbox Game Pass today

Check out the full roster of new games joining Xbox Game Pass starting today.

Ultimate — Available today

• Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed II (PC)
• Assassin’s Creed III Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag: Freedom Cry (PC)
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (PC)
• Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (PC)
• Assassin’s Creed Revelations (PC)
• Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed The Ezio Collection (Cloud and Console)
• Assassin’s Creed Unity (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Child of Light (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Far Cry 3 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Far Cry Primal (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Hungry Shark World (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Monopoly Madness (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Monopoly 2024 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• OddBallers (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Prince of Persia The Lost Crown (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show (Cloud and Console)
• Rabbids: Party of Legends (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Rayman Legends (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Risk Urban Assault (Cloud and Console)
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Skull and Bones (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• South Park: The Stick of Truth (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Steep (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• The Crew 2 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• The Settlers: New Allies (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Tom Clancy’s The Division (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Trackmania Turbo (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Transference (Cloud and Console)
• Trials Fusion (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Trials of the Blood Dragon (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Trials Rising (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Uno (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Watch_Dogs (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Wheel of Fortune (Cloud and Console)
• Zombi (Cloud, PC, and Console)

Premium — Available today (also in Ultimate for many)

• 9 Kings (Game Preview) (PC)
• Abiotic Factor (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Against the Storm (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (PC)
• Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (PC)
• Age of Mythology: Retold (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Ara: History Untold (PC)
• Arx Fatalis (PC)
• Back to the Dawn (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Battletech (PC)
• Blacksmith Master (Game Preview) (PC)
• Cataclismo (PC)
• Cities: Skylines II (PC)
• Crime Scene Cleaner (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Diablo (PC)
• Diablo IV (PC and Console)
• An Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire (PC)
• The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (PC)
• Fallout (PC)
• Fallout 2 (PC)
• Fallout: Tactics (PC)
• Football Manager 2024 (PC)
• Frostpunk 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Halo: Spartan Strike (PC)
• Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Manor Lords (Game Preview) (PC)
• Minami Lane (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Minecraft: Java Edition (PC)
• Mullet Madjack (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• My Friendly Neighborhood (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• One Lonely Outpost (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Quake 4 (PC)
• Quake III Arena (PC)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein (PC)
• Rise of Nations: Extended Edition (PC)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Sworn (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
• Terra Invicta (Game Preview) (PC)
• Volcano Princess (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Warcraft I: Remastered (PC)
• Warcraft II: Remastered (PC)
• Warcraft III: Reforged (PC)
• Wolfenstein 3D (PC)

Essential — Available today (also in Premium and Ultimate for many)

• Cities: Skylines Remastered (Cloud and Xbox Series X|S)
• Disney Dreamlight Valley (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Hades (Cloud, PC, and Console)
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Cloud, PC, and Console)

What do you think of the new Xbox Game Pass?