Thirteen Games Leave Game Pass Today, GoldenEye Included

Thirteen games leave Xbox Game Pass on Sunday, November 15, 2026. Microsoft listed the departures in its November 3 Xbox Wire post, and they span every tier of the service: 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 and Wreckfest.

GoldenEye 007 is the name that stings. The 1997 shooter spent decades trapped by tangled rights before its modern re-release, and licensed games are the least likely to return once a catalog deal lapses, because every rights holder has to agree again. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 carries the same licensing weight. The rest of the list is smaller and stranger: Moonlighter's shopkeeping loop, Wreckfest's demolition racing and the narrative puzzle of 1000xResist all leave on the same day.

The timing isn't a coincidence, and it isn't a purge. November 15 is also the day eight older games join Game Pass Essential, the cheapest tier: three Banjo-Kazooie titles, Perfect Dark, Gears of War: Judgment, Halo: Spartan Assault and both Viva Piñata games. Microsoft runs the catalog like a revolving door with a schedule, and this month the door spins on the 15th in both directions at once.

Count the whole month and the churn is bigger. Football Manager 26 and its console edition left on November 10, the day Football Manager 27 arrived, which brings November's departures to fifteen games against the additions Microsoft has announced so far. Most of the departing thirteen play on cloud and console, and several also run on PC, so the loss lands on every screen the service sells.

For subscribers, the practical math is about the backlog. A game leaving the catalog doesn't vanish from a hard drive politely; it stops launching unless the player buys it, and unfinished campaigns in Moonlighter or Winter Burrow had a hard deadline of midnight. Players who track the leaving lists treat the Xbox Wire post as a two-week warning, and November's warning covered some of the service's most finishable games.

Microsoft announces each month's Game Pass lineup in two Xbox Wire posts, and it hasn't said when November's second post will land. Until it does, the month's ledger stands at fifteen out and the announced arrivals in, with the next rotation already being the only document that can change it.

There's a neat symmetry buried in the rotation. Perfect Dark, Rare's 2000 shooter, joins Essential on the same day GoldenEye 007, Rare's 1997 shooter, leaves the catalog. The two games defined split-screen multiplayer for a generation of players, and Game Pass now holds one while releasing the other. Which one a subscriber can play on November 16 was decided entirely by licensing calendars, not by anyone's ranking of the two.