Xbox Game Pass Is Losing at Least 6 Games on January 15

Xbox Game Pass is losing Figment: Journey Into the Mind and at least five other titles on January 15. These removals outnumber the current list of new Xbox Game Pass titles that have been confirmed for January 2025.

The XGP content catalog typically shrinks every two weeks, in the middle and at the end of every month. This most recently happened on December 31, when Xbox Game Pass lost six titles, including LEGO 2K Drive and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.

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Another half a dozen games are now set to follow suit on January 15. According to the newly updated “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox app, that’s the date when Xbox Game Pass will lose Common’hood, Escape Academy, Exoprimal, Figment: Journey Into the Mind, Insurgency: Sandstorm, and Those Who Remain. Escape-the-room game Escape Academy had the longest stint on the service out of this upcoming wave of departures, having originally been added to Xbox Game Pass back in July 2022.

Xbox Game Pass Games Leaving January 15, 2025

Achievement hunters determined to make the most of their Xbox Game Pass subscriptions will be happy to know that almost all of these soon-to-be-departing titles can be comfortably beaten in just a few days’ time each. The only outlier is Insurgency: Sandstorm, whose multiplayer nature demands a significantly bigger time investment.

The “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox app has historically been an incomplete source of information about incoming departures from the service. In other words, it’s possible that even more titles will be leaving Xbox Game Pass on January 15. The complete list of upcoming removals should be confirmed alongside the first wave of January 2025 XGP releases, which is expected to be officially announced in the coming days. That announcement may happen no later than January 7, which is when Road 96—the final game from Microsoft’s most recently shared XGP lineup—is scheduled to reach the service.

Looking at the slightly bigger picture, Xbox Game Pass has so far confirmed only five titles for January 2025. While it’s likely to receive even more throughout the month, it’s also bound to lose additional games on January 31. The last time that the service added more titles than it removed in a single month was back in July 2024, making this ongoing streak of monthly net losses its longest one to date. As for the near-future additions to Xbox Game Pass, Road 96 will be followed by a trio of day-one releases in the form of Eternal Strands, Sniper Elite: Resistance, and Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, all of which are scheduled to arrive in the January 28–31 period.

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