Summary
- Xbox Game Pass is losing Darkest Dungeon and 5 other titles on January 31, doubling its total number of monthly departures.
- Microsoft’s subscription service added 13 new games in January 2025, making this the first month since July 2024 that it introduced more titles than it removed.
- The next wave of Xbox Game Pass releases is expected to be announced on or around February 4.
Xbox Game Pass is losing Darkest Dungeon and five other titles later today, January 31. This wave of departures will double the total number of games that have left Xbox Game Pass in January 2025.
Microsoft’s subscription service typically removes games from its content catalog in the middle and at the end of each month. It most recently did so on January 15, when Xbox Game Pass lost Figment: Journey Into the Mind, Insurgency: Sandstorm, and four other titles.
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Another six games are now set to follow later today, January 31. The list of soon-to-be-departing titles includes Anuchard, Broforce Forever, Darkest Dungeon, Death’s Door, Maquette, and Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem. In terms of critical acclaim, Death’s Door can be characterized as the biggest loss for the service, with its 88 average rating and 99% recommendation rate on OpenCritic making it one of the highest-rated Xbox Game Pass games currently available.
Xbox Game Pass Games Leaving January 31, 2025
|
Game |
Added |
How Long To Beat |
|---|---|---|
|
Anuchard |
Feb 2024 |
7–10 hours |
|
Broforce Forever |
Aug 2023 |
7–17.5 hours |
|
Darkest Dungeon |
Jun 2021 |
57–129 hours |
|
Death’s Door |
Jan 2022 |
9–15.5 hours |
|
Maquette |
Jul 2023 |
3.5–5.5 hours |
|
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem |
Jul 2023 |
4.5–14 hours |
When it comes to Xbox Game Pass departures, Microsoft never communicates their exact removal times in advance. However, save for a few exceptions, most titles leave the XGP content catalog around the end of the day of their scheduled date of departure. Xbox Game Pass users on the West Coast therefore have around 12 more hours to try these soon-to-be-departing titles as of this writing. That’s enough time to feasibly beat any one of them, except for Darkest Dungeon and Death’s Door.
Xbox Game Pass Content Catalog Has Finally Returned to Growth
The content catalog of Microsoft’s subscription service has been consistently shrinking since summer 2024. Between August and December 2024, monthly removals from Xbox Game Pass have always outnumbered new game additions. This negative trend is now finally at its end, as today’s departures bring the total number of monthly removals to 12. In contrast, Xbox Game Pass has added 13 new titles over the course of January 2025. Most of them were announced in advance, with the only surprise being Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, which was shadow-dropped on January 23, as soon as it was announced at the Xbox Developer Direct 2025.
The XGP library will next expand on February 4, when it’s scheduled to receive Far Cry New Dawn. That’s also the day when Microsoft is expected to announce the rest of the first wave of February 2025 Xbox Game Pass releases. Aside from Far Cry New Dawn, the subscription service already has one other confirmed game for next month, Obsidian’s Avowed, which is slated to arrive on February 18.
