XBOX Game Pass July 2026 Wave 1 Lineup

The first XBOX Game Pass wave of July lands at a strange moment for the brand, arriving a day after XBOX confirmed it’s cutting 3,200 jobs in the biggest restructure in its history. The lineup itself is mostly business as usual, though, headlined by Palworld’s long-awaited 1.0 release and the return of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2.

Available today, July 7, is Winds of Arcana: Ruination on Cloud, Console, Handheld, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass subscribers. It’s a story-rich, fully voiced 2.5D action Metroidvania following Aryn as he wields powerful magic, fights his way across a sundered world, and uncovers the forces shaping his destiny.

July 9 brings two titles, starting with Gears of War: Reloaded on Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, Handheld, and PC, now with Game Pass Premium alongside its existing Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass availability. The remaster of the original Gears of War includes all post-launch content, from the bonus campaign act to the extra multiplayer maps, characters, and cosmetics. The timing seems intentional, too, with Gears of War: E-Day launching October 6 and its open beta weekends starting August 6, so anyone wanting a refresher on where it all began has a window to do it. Joining it the same day is Tamashika on Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, Handheld, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass, a fast-paced arcade-style corridor shooter built around flow, precision, and survival.

The biggest date on the calendar might be July 10, when Palworld officially exits Early Access with its full 1.0 release on Cloud, Console, and PC across Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass. Pocketpair signaled this was coming when the Home Sweet Home update rolled out last December, and version 1.0 brings new locations to explore and new characters to meet. In our first impressions back when the game launched in January 2024, we called it one of the most feature-rich Early Access launches we’d ever played, and two and a half years later, the record-breaking survival hit is finally a finished game.

Day one releases begin on July 13 with Ascend to Zero on Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, Handheld, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers. The action roguelike is set in a devastated world and hands you time-bending powers to outlast every threat on the climb to the top. The next day, July 14, brings PBA Pro Bowling 2026 to Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass, featuring licensed PBA pros, realistic oil pattern transitions, and a career mode that takes you from amateur to PBA legend.

On July 15, Quarantine Zone: The Last Check joins Game Pass Premium while also expanding to Cloud and Console, having previously been available through Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. The checkpoint management game has you screening survivors and rationing scarce resources in a collapsing city, where one mistake can let the plague past your walls. Then on July 16, Mavrix by Matt Jones lands on Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, Handheld, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass, a multiplayer open world for riders designed by pro Red Bull athlete Matt Jones, complete with head-to-head competition and career building.

Two more titles arrive on July 17, led by FixForce on Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass subscribers. Humans are long gone in this co-op extraction platformer, which drops you and up to five friends onto worksites as robots using drill-wrench arms to build huge structures out of junk. Fogpiercer joins the same day on PC for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, a sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder where clever positioning and explosive chain reactions matter as much as the cards themselves.

The wave wraps up on July 21 with two very different games sharing the same date. The Planet Crafter arrives on Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, and PC for Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass, a chill terraforming survival game where you make a hostile planet habitable for humans, either solo or in online co-op. Joining it is Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 on Cloud, Console, and PC for the same three tiers, the remastered collection of the first two games in the series rebuilt in HD. It arrives just weeks after Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 expanded to Game Pass Premium on July 2, which means the first four games in the franchise are now all on the service.

This wave also includes a couple of in-game benefits for subscribers across every tier, starting with League of Legends on PC. The game’s newest champion, Locke, the Ashen Exorcist, is a mid-lane assassin available now with XBOX Game Pass benefits, including for Game Pass Essential subscribers. Wuthering Waves follows on July 10 with rewards that refresh after each version update, including two Morphable Echoes, 10 Premium Tuners, and 30,000 Shell Credits, plus the XBOX exclusive “Paths and Possibilities” Sigil as a one-time reward.

As part of this wave, a batch of titles departs the XBOX Game Pass library on July 15, and subscribers can save 20 percent by buying them before they go. Ten games are on the list:

Dungeons of Hinterberg (Cloud, Console, and PC)
EA Sports FC 24 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Stellaris (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Golf With Your Friends (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Minami Lane (Cloud, Console, and PC)
PowerWash Simulator (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Splitgate: Arena Reloaded (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Super Fantasy Kingdom (Game Preview) (PC)
Techtonica (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC)

If you split your gaming time between platforms, this month’s PlayStation Plus Monthly Games are also live now, led by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.