9 Games Are Leaving Xbox Game Pass on October 15 — Including Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Nine games leave Xbox Game Pass on Thursday, October 15, 2026, and this is not a quiet rotation. The list is headlined by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the award-winning RPG that launched day one on the service in April 2025 — and if it's sitting unfinished in your library, the clock is now very real. Game Pass members save 20% buying any of these to keep before they leave, so here's the full list, what you can still realistically finish, and what's smarter to just buy.

Every game leaving Game Pass on October 15

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Crime Scene Cleaner (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Donut County (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Evil West (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Nova Roma (PC, Game Preview)
• Pacific Drive (Cloud, Console, PC)
• Superball (Cloud, Console, PC)
• The Casting of Frank Stone (Cloud, Console, PC)

Microsoft hasn't announced an exact departure hour, only the date — so treat October 14 as your last full day with them.

You can still finish these

Donut County is the easiest clear on the list: a couple of hours of swallowing an entire town with a hole in the ground. Start it tonight, finish it tonight.

The Casting of Frank Stone runs about six to eight hours, and it's October — a Supermassive horror story set in the Dead by Daylight universe is exactly what this month is for.

Crime Scene Cleaner is built from short, self-contained jobs. You won't see everything, but you can absolutely get your fill before it goes.

Sample these before they're gone

Pacific Drive is run-based: every trip into the Olympic Exclusion Zone is its own loop, so even a few drives tells you whether this survival road trip is your thing.

Evil West is a punchy, arcadey third-person action game — the opening hours give you the full flavor, no long-term commitment required.

Don't panic-start these — buy them instead

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has a main story that runs 30-plus hours. Unless it becomes your entire personality for the next four days, this is a buy, not a binge — and at 20% off through Game Pass, buying is the calm move.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is a full-length story sequel that joined Game Pass day one back in October 2022. Same logic: if Amicia and Hugo's journey matters to you, own it.

Nova Roma is still in Game Preview on PC, so it's the one departure we'd simply wave at — it'll be back, or it'll launch properly.

The 20% member discount

While these games are still in the catalog, Game Pass members save 20% buying them to keep. If a game on this list is in your backlog and you'd be annoyed to lose it, the discount window is the moment — after October 15 they're full price again.

FAQ

When exactly do the games leave Game Pass? On Thursday, October 15, 2026. Microsoft has confirmed the date but not an exact hour, so plan around October 14 being your last full day.

Can I keep playing them after October 15? Only if you buy them. Your progress and achievements are tied to your Xbox account, so a purchase picks up where you left off.

What's joining Game Pass to replace them? October's additions include Battlefield 6, Valor Mortis and Deep Dish Dungeon on October 13 — two days before this batch leaves.