Xbox Game Pass subscribers should brace themselves, as the subscription service is going to lose one of its highest-rated and most-celebrated games in the very near future. Keeping people subscribed to Xbox Game Pass requires Microsoft to ensure that there is a steady stream of high-quality games added on a regular basis. New games are added to Xbox Game Pass all the time, but games are removed from the service regularly as well.
In any given month, chances are that more new games are added to Game Pass than there are games that are removed, but it still stings whenever a popular game is given the boot. A handful of games have already left Xbox Game Pass as part of the July 2026 updates, but soon one of the absolute best games on the service will be removed.
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On July 31, Xbox Game Pass will be losing its next batch of games. Among the departures is Celeste, the critically-acclaimed tough-as-nails precision platformer from 2018 that won numerous awards and is often pointed to as one...
