May 2026 Looks Like a Massive Month for the Now Cheaper Xbox Game Pass

Microsoft has confirmed the Xbox Game Pass May 2026 Wave 1 lineup, and it’s afloat of large hitters.

As elaborate successful a station connected Xbox Wire, May is headlined by Playground’s hotly anticipated Forza Horizon 6, which arsenic a Microsoft rubric releases consecutive into Game Pass time 1 connected May 19 crossed Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. But determination are a fig of different large games coming to Game Pass this month, including the time 1 merchandise of Mixtape, the adjacent crippled from the developer of The Artful Escape, and, connected May 14, the troubled but inactive hotly anticipated Subnautica 2.

But the time 1 releases don't halt there. We besides person Square Glade Games' cozy open-world exploration crippled Outbound connected May 11, and Out of the Blue Games' Lovecraftian communicative puzzle escapade and sequel to 2020’s critically acclaimed Call of the Sea, Call of the Elder Gods, connected May 12.

This is the archetypal Xbox Game Pass lineup announcement since Microsoft chopped the terms of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 per period to $22.99 per month, and PC Game Pass from $16.49 per period to $13.99 per month. The alteration is 1 of the large decisions caller Xbox brag Asha Sharma made successful the archetypal fewer months since she replaced Phil Spencer astatine the apical of Microsoft’s gaming business. But that’s acold from the lone Game Pass change. Microsoft has besides confirmed Call of Duty won’t motorboat time 1 connected Game Pass from this year’s crippled going forward. Instead, caller Call of Duty games volition deed the subscription work a twelvemonth later. Meanwhile, Microsoft is investigating a caller Starter Edition tier of Xbox Game Pass for Discord Nitro subscribers.

Xbox Game Pass May 2026 Wave 1 lineup:

• Ben 10 Power Trip (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 6
  Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• Descenders Next (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 6
  Now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
• Wheel World (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – May 6
  Now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
• Wildgate (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – May 6
  Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass
• Wuchang: Fallen Feathers (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC) – May 6
  Now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
• Mixtape (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – May 7
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Outbound (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 11
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Black Jacket (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – May 12
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Call of the Elder Gods (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld and PC) – May 12
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Elite Dangerous (Cloud and Console) – May 12
  Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium
• DOOM: The Dark Ages (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – May 14
  Now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass
• Subnautica 2 (Game Preview) (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – May 14
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
• Forza Horizon 6 (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – May 19
  Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass

As usual, a fig of games are acceptable to permission Game Pass this month.

Leaving Xbox Game Pass connected May 15:

• Galacticare (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Go Mecha Ball (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Paw Patrol Rescue Wheels: Championship (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Planet of Lana (Cloud, Console, and PC)

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