Summary
Xbox Game Passis set to lose five games on June 15. The next wave ofXbox Game Passdepartures largely consists of highly-rated titles, includingBramble: The Mountain King.
Microsoft’s subscription service removes games from its content catalog every two weeks. Those departures are usually communicated as part of announcements ofnew Xbox Game Pass release waves.
That hasn’t been the case this time around, as Microsoft has instead revealed the next batch of titles set to be removed from the service by updating the “Leaving soon” section of the Xbox app on June 2. The newly confirmed departures areHigh On Life,Bramble: The Mountain King,Rune Factory 4 Special,Spacelines from the Far Out, andThe Bookwalker: Thief of Tales. All fivewill be leaving Xbox Game Passon June 15.
4.5–7 hours
79
9.5–20.5 hours
70
39–166 hours
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5–14.5 hours
85
7–13.5 hours
69
The silver lining for achievement hunters is that most of these outgoings can be comfortably beaten before that happens. Specifically, obtaining all achievements inBramble: The Mountain King,The Bookwalker: Thief of TalesandSpacelines from the Far Outis doable in between 16 and 35 hours in total, according to HowLongToBeat data. Meanwhile, a completionist run through thepolarizing first-person shooterHigh On Lifeis estimated to take upwards of 20 hours.Rune Factory 4 Specialis the only game from the newly announced list of departures that’s not feasible to beat in its entirety over the following two weeks, unless the player wants to treat it as two full-time jobs starting today.
Thethree games that Xbox Game Pass has already confirmed for June 2024will partially offset this next wave of removals. That list comprisesFireworkandRolling Hills, which are scheduled to reach the service on June 4, followed byStill Wakes the Deeptwo weeks later. But Microsoft presumably has many more new releases in store for this month, as the company has yet to officially announce the first monthly wave of Xbox Game Pass additions for June 2024. Based on historical precedent, such an announcement is likely to happen on Tuesday, June 4, whenRolling HillsandFireworkmake their way to the service.
The next batch of Xbox Game Pass arrivals may face higher-than-usual scrutiny from the fandom, not least because May 2024 ended up being a rare net negative for the service. Specifically, the previous month saw Xbox Game Pass receive only 12 games, while removing 14 others.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is the highest tier of Microsoft’s flagship game subscription service that offers over 100 game titles that you may play with a single purchase, making it one of the most outstanding value propositions of the Xbox ecosystem to date.
