Microsoft announces the first wave of the December 2024 Xbox Game Pass lineup, which includes five new titles and several XGP Standard additions.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Forza Motorsport and more awesome titles are part of the new additions coming to Xbox Game Pass this month.

Xbox giveth and Xbox taketh away. November saw some big names come to the Game Pass subscription service, like Stalker 2, Flight Simulator 2024, and Aliens: Dark Descent, but December sees some some real bangers removed. One of them— Forza Horizon 4 —is even worse affected, entering the misery of a storefront delisting.

XBOX’S additions to Game Pass seem to get more confusing by the month, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to figure out what new games you’re getting. We’ve broken down this month’s Xbox

Update [Tue 3rd Dec 2024, 6am]: It turns out that just seven games will be leaving Xbox Game Pass in early December rather than the original eight that were reported, as Hello Neighbor 2 is no longer on the list. We also now know what's leaving Xbox Game Pass in late December, as covered elsewhere on Pure Xbox:

All of the games listed as “Game Pass Standard” in the bullet points above can also be found through Game Pass Ultimate. In addition to these new titles, three existing Game Pass Ultimate titles will be made available on Game Pass Standard on December 4th: Forza Motorsport (Xbox Series X|S), Hauntii (Console), and Humanity (Console).

As usual, you can get a discount of at least 20% on these Xbox Game Pass titles until they leave in a few weeks' time, and some of them may be reduced even further - Party Animals, for example, has a 50% discount on the Xbox Store.

Microsoft has revealed the 13 games that will be leaving the Xbox Game Pass subscription service by the end of December 2024. Games are removed from Xbox Game Pass at least twice