Xbox has announced the first batch of Xbox Game Pass games joining the service for February 2026, headlined by a couple of major past releases and one new day-one launch for the subscription service. That new release is Squanch Games' upcoming High on Life 2, while the other headlining titles include Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
This new batch of games also includes a couple of titles already included in the service for players subscribed to the Game Pass Ultimate tier that are now available for Premium tier members. Once again, unfortunately for Essential tier players, there's nothing in this batch of games that increases the library of titles available to players on the bottom-tier subscription.
Outside of High on Life 2, the other two new releases entering the service this month are Roadside Research and Starsand Island. The former is a gas station management game where you play as aliens gathering information on humans while they fuel up their cars. The latter is a new life/farming sim, and both are arriving in the service as 'Game Preview' titles.
Other notable titles include Madden NFL 26, which replaces Madden NFL 24, as the 2024 entry is the only game leaving the service in this update, and Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. It's also worth noting that, while Warhorse Studios has yet to confirm a major current-gen update for Kingdom Come: Deliverance, after a PlayStation Store listing let the cat out of the bag, it seems like its arrival date in Game Pass, February 13, 2026, will likely be the day the new version is released.
Here's the full list of games joining Game Pass in this initial February 2026 batch:
- Final Fantasy II - February 3 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Premium and up, PC Game Pass
- Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii - February 3 - Cloud, Console, PC - Game Pass Premium and up, PC Game Pass
- Madden NFL 26 - February 5 - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Paw Patrol Rescue Wheels: Championship - February 5 - Cloud, Console, PC - Game Pass Premium and up, PC Game Pass
- Relooted - February 10 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- BlazBlue Entropy Effect X - February 12 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Roadside Research - February 12 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Starsand Island - February 12 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- High on Life 2 - February 13 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance - February 13 - Cloud, Console, PC - Game Pass Premium and up, PC Game Pass
- Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - February 17 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Avowed - February 17 - Cloud, Xbox Series X/S, PC - Now available for Game Pass Premium subscribers
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