Xbox Game Pass is losing Return to Monkey Island—one of its highest-rated games—on October 31. Two more titles have already been marked as leaving on the same day, with the full list of upcoming Xbox Game Pass departures being expected to be officially announced on the week of October 20.
Xbox Game Pass removals are typically announced every couple of weeks, alongside the service's two monthly release waves. Occasionally, however, Microsoft reveals them in advance through the "Leaving Soon" section of the Xbox app's Game Pass tab. This is what happened on October 18, when the app was refreshed to list three titles that will be leaving at the end of the month.
The newly revealed October 31 removals consist of Return to Monkey Island, Jusant, and Metal Slug Tactics. In terms of critical acclaim, the latest Monkey Island adventure game is the biggest loss from the trio, as reflected by its near-perfect 97% reviewer recommendation rate on OpenCritic. The game also holds an average score of 87 on the aggregator platform, based on more than 100 reviews, placing it in the 98th percentile of all titles in the OpenCritic database and among the highest-rated games currently available on...
