Microsoft has revealed which games will be leaving its Xbox Game Pass subscription service on May 15, 2025. In all, eight games are set to depart, including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Jurassic World Evolution 2, and Little Kitty, Big City.
Xbox Game Pass is an online gaming service for Xbox and PC game platforms where subscribers can stream directly on smart devices and consoles, play new games on day one, depending upon their subscription tier, and access a catalog of hundreds of high-quality games with friends on console, PC, or cloud. It’s from the latter that the following eight games are being removed.
Games leaving Xbox Game Pass in May are:
Microsoft is expected to announce Wave 2 of the May 2025 Game Pass lineup as soon as these games exit the subscription service.
Earlier this month, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members got a new perk: the ability to stream some games directly to their consoles, no download necessary.
This news came in an Xbox Wire post in which Xbox announced that Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Member are now able to stream games from the Game Pass catalog, as well as “select games they own” on their Xbox Series X and S and Xbox One consoles via cloud streaming. In the past, this was already possible to do on smart TVs, PCs, smart phones, and Meta Quest headsets, but this is the first time the feature has been available on consoles.
If today’s news that Grand Theft Auto 6 has been delayed to May 2026 has you yearning to jump back into GTA 5, don’t forget that GTA 5 Enhanced is also now available on Xbox Game Pass and Game Pass for PC, with the latter especially exciting given it’s the first time the game has been available on PC Game Pass.
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