Grand Theft Auto VI finally launches on Xbox Series X|S on Thursday 19 November 2026, after slipping twice. Rockstar’s return to Vice City is going to swallow the month whole, and most publishers have got out of its way. Most, not all.
We’ve gone through the Xbox store, Xbox Wire and publisher announcements to find every game actually confirmed for Xbox in November. There are 42 of them besides GTA 6, from Football Manager 27 and Warhammer Survivors to a parrot-flying game and a cricket game starring Sir Donald Bradman. For each one, we’ve asked a simple question about its timing, not its quality: is launching in GTA 6’s month brave, or stupid?
GTA 6 on Xbox: the key facts
- Release date: Thursday 19 November 2026, Xbox Series X|S only
- Standard Edition: £69.99 / $79.99 on the Xbox store
- Pre-load: from 12 November for digital pre-orders
- Game Pass: no
November 2026 Xbox release dates at a glance
Dates are from the Xbox store or the publisher as of 25 October 2026 and can still move. “Publisher” means the developer or publisher has confirmed Game Pass but Xbox hasn’t listed it yet; “Reported” means press reports only.
Week one: 2 to 6 November
The safest week of the month. Two clear weeks before GTA 6, and the busiest stretch on this list.
Gravhounds
- Release date: Monday 2 November 2026
- Game Pass: Day one with Game Pass in Game Preview (confirmed on Xbox Wire)
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Game Preview), Xbox on PC (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A one-to-four player co-op action builder from seven-person indie studio Octopus Panic. Your pack of bio-engineered space dogs drops on to hostile planets, builds and defends a base, then extracts with whatever loot it can carry.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Launching 17 days before GTA 6 gives it a fortnight to get its claws into co-op groups. After that, it’s every dog for himself.
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered
- Release date: Tuesday 3 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S
Atari and Pipeworks’ remaster of the early-2000s kaiju arena brawler. Pick a monster, flatten recreated cities and fight friends locally or in the newly added online multiplayer.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Godzilla flattening a city two weeks before anyone else gets the chance is very on brand.
Pit of Goblin
- Release date: Tuesday 3 November 2026
- Game Pass: Day one with Game Pass Ultimate, Premium and PC Game Pass (confirmed on Xbox Wire)
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC (Xbox Play Anywhere)
Online co-op horror where you play a scrappy goblin scavenging dungeons, dodging traps and fleeing monsters to keep the Goblin King-Queen fed.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Goblins are used to scrapping over leftovers, and that’s what everyone else’s free time looks like after 19 November.
ZERO PARADES: Director’s Cut
- Release date: Tuesday 3 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
An espionage RPG from ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium. You’re a brilliant but tormented operative on one last assignment, rebuilding a broken network and untangling a web of lies.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A dense, wordy spy RPG needs a quiet month, and it’s picked the noisiest one in years. At least it has a 16-day head start.
Kitties on Planets
- Release date: Tuesday 3 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
A small puzzle game from Afil Games. The store pitch in full: “Two Cats, One Planet, and Plenty of Challenges!”
Brave or stupid? Brave. Cats ignore everything else going on around them, so this one should be fine.
VOID/BREAKER
- Release date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
- Game Pass: Already in PC Game Pass as a Game Preview. Day one Game Pass for the 1.0 release has been reported from Playstack’s announcement but isn’t on Xbox Wire yet
- Price: £23.99 / $29.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC
Stubby Games’ roguelite shooter hits 1.0. You’re a prisoner of a hostile AI, blasting through destructible levels and modding guns into ridiculous variants until you escape the loop.
Brave or stupid? Brave. It’s about breaking out of an endless cycle, which is exactly what it’ll take to drag anyone away from Leonida in a fortnight.
Outbreak: Dead City
- Release date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A low-poly, story-led zombie shooter. You’re a H.A.D.E.S. special forces soldier dropped into an overrun city to recover research, rescue a scientist and maybe find a vaccine.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. A city overrun by chaos is about to get serious competition.
The End of the Sun
- Release date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A first-person mystery steeped in Slavic myth. You’re the Ashter, a fire mage chasing a legendary creature into a village caught in a time rift.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Travelling through time is handy when your launch window is about to get swallowed whole.
We are Eva
- Release date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
A 2D platformer about travelling through dimensions with Eva.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Hopping between dimensions is a solid plan when this one is about to fill up with Vice City.
Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Day one with Game Pass (listed in the Xbox store’s Coming to Game Pass collection)
- Price: £16.74 / $19.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox on PC
The escape-room sequel turns the whole campus into one big puzzle. Solo or two-player co-op, online or split-screen, with a new optional No-Timer Mode.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Plenty of people will want an escape room on 19 November. They’ll just mean one with a lock on the door and Leonida on the other side.
Kingdom of Night
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £16.74 / $19.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
An ’80s-themed isometric action RPG. Hunt demons and save the town of Miami, Arizona, across an interconnected map with open-ended quests.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A neon ’80s Miami, two weeks before Rockstar’s neon modern-day one. Bold.
The Slormancer
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £20.99 / $24.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A loot-heavy action RPG with three classes, hundreds of abilities, procedurally generated dungeons and legendary Slorm Reapers to hunt.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Loot grinders can easily keep two games on the go. In theory.
Dominus Gladiatus
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
A brutal gladiator management sim. Recruit, train and equip fighters, then make life-or-death calls through a deadly tournament against rival Domini.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Sending fighters into an arena they probably won’t survive is a decent metaphor for its release date.
Next of Kin: Epiphany
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £7.49 / $9.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A detective thriller. You’re private eye Dennis Monroe, hunting the ‘Epiphany Killer’ who has haunted the city for years.
Brave or stupid? Brave. If it’s a crime story you want, the one in Leonida has a slightly bigger budget.
Dark Alley
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: $12.49 (UK price not yet announced)
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A first-person, cinematic detective story set in Kyoto. A British detective has vanished, and Detective Bennett’s search leads somewhere far beyond the Yakuza.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Two detective games on the same day, a fortnight before GTA. Somebody’s got to solve the case of the missing players.
MANIC MINER
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A faithful revival of Matthew Smith’s 1983 ZX Spectrum classic, rebuilt for a new generation while keeping the original’s charm.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A 43-year-old British platformer has seen off bigger threats than a mere generational blockbuster.
Don Bradman Cricket JR
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
An arcade spin-off from the Don Bradman cricket sim series. Beat the Bradman Challenge Round to unlock the Don himself as Australia captain.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Cricket fans are used to long, slow days, so waiting for GTA 6 shouldn’t bother them.
GeoJelly
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £9.99 / $11.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A 2D puzzle platformer. Help a small jelly escape a lab over 63 levels with charged jumps, traps and diamonds.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A wobbly jelly is exactly how most people’s legs will feel after the GTA 6 pre-load on 12 November.
Faraway
- Release date: Thursday 5 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
An endless, procedurally generated arcade game about a shooting star that creates constellations to stay alive, with visuals generated in real time.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A shooting star getting in two weeks before the sky falls in.
Hasbro Games Junior Collection
- Release date: Friday 6 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £24.99 / $29.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
Monopoly Jr., Clue Jr. and The Game of Life Jr. in one family collection, for up to four players locally.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Smart, really. GTA 6 isn’t made for kids, so this goes straight for everyone it can’t reach.
Sora – Oasis Treasures
- Release date: Friday 6 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £8.39 / $9.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S
Fly as a parrot through jungle skies and tropical islands, keeping your colourful flock together.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Flying under the radar is the whole plan here.
Ice Cream Simulator
- Release date: Friday 6 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
Run your own ice cream shop: make the stock, serve customers, invent flavours and grow the business.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. Launching an ice cream shop in November takes guts. Doing it two weeks before GTA 6 takes more.
Week two: 9 to 13 November
The big-hitters’ window. GTA 6 pre-loads open on 12 November, so anything here has about a week before attention goes elsewhere.
Hozy
- Release date: Monday 9 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
Clean, decorate and restore abandoned homes one cosy room at a time.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Tidying abandoned houses is a nice warm-up before the inevitable mess of 19 November.
Football Manager 27
- Release date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Game Pass: Day one with Game Pass, per Sports Interactive (not yet on Xbox Wire)
- On: Xbox Series X|S (FM27 Console), Xbox on PC
Sports Interactive’s management sim returns with a clearer interface, smarter navigation, cup draws, a proper Transfer Deadline Day and an overhauled news feed.
Brave or stupid? Brave. FM players already lose whole winters to one save. GTA 6 just has to wait for the January window.
Warhammer Survivors
- Release date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Game Pass: Day one with Game Pass, per Auroch Digital (not yet on Xbox Wire)
- Price: £6.39 / $7.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A fast survivors-style roguelite from the Boltgun studio. Pick from 40-plus Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar champions and mow down endless swarms.
Brave or stupid? Brave. In the grim darkness of November, there is only GTA. Warhammer fans have survived worse.
Shrek 2 Remastered
- Release date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £24.99 / $29.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S
Aspyr’s remaster of the cult-favourite, button-mashing Shrek 2 co-op adventure, with improved graphics and the whole gang back.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Ogres have layers. So does that GTA 6 backlog.
Unpetrified: Echoes of Nature
- Release date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A cosy puzzle adventure. You’re a stone golem working with a fox to reconnect ancient energy sources and save nature.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Being made of stone should help it sit tight while the storm passes.
Hope in the City
- Release date: Wednesday 11 November 2026
- Game Pass: Day one with Game Pass (Lofty Sky press release; listed in the Xbox store’s Coming to Game Pass collection)
- Price: £14.99 / $19.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A narrative mystery. 17-year-old Hope Song comes home to a ransacked flat and two missing parents, and investigates through an artist’s eyes, turning sketches into evidence.
Brave or stupid? Brave. It moved a day later to 11 November for an announcement. It’s still in the ‘before GTA’ gap, just about.
Thronefall
- Release date: Wednesday 11 November 2026
- Game Pass: Reported as day one with Game Pass (TrueAchievements); not yet listed by Xbox
- On: Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A minimalist kingdom builder: grow your town by day, defend it by night. The Craaghelm expansion lands the same day, sold separately.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A game about holding your castle against an incoming army knows exactly what’s coming on the 19th.
Skygrid Courier
- Release date: Wednesday 11 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A physics-based action puzzler. Fly a taxi ship through neon-lit, single-screen cityscapes, dropping off passengers without crashing.
Brave or stupid? Brave. A taxi game a week before the biggest driving-around game ever. Bold choice of fare.
SONIC PICO PARK
- Release date: Thursday 12 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £7.99 / $9.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Xbox Play Anywhere)
The co-op puzzle series PICO PARK teams up with Sonic the Hedgehog. Two to eight players, locally or online.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Sonic’s never been afraid of speed, and it’ll need some to get played before the 19th.
Barbie Rewind
- Release date: Thursday 12 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
Digital Eclipse decorates Barbie’s DreamHouse through the decades, with a collection of classic Barbie video games to play along the way.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Launching on GTA 6 pre-load day is quite the flex.
Hazard Levels
- Release date: Thursday 12 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S
One-to-four player physics-driven co-op horror. Dive through unstable rifts for bizarre ingredients to fuel a secret brewery under a British pub, and get back before last orders.
Brave or stupid? Brave. It has to be. Its whole plot is getting back before last orders.
Fakin’ It XL
- Release date: Thursday 12 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: $8.99 (UK price not yet announced)
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A standalone, family-friendly version of Jackbox’s bluffing game. One player never sees the prompt and has to fake it, with new rounds built for remote play.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Pretending you’ve got other plans on 19 November is a skill this will help with.
Menes: The Chainbreaker
- Release date: Friday 13 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A tough action-adventure about breaking the chains of false gods, mixing parry-based combat, demanding platforming and exploration.
Brave or stupid? Brave. Friday the 13th, six days before GTA 6. It’s not short on nerve.
Launch week: 16 to 20 November
The danger zone. Five other games launch within two days of GTA 6, including one the day after.
Unicorn Academy: Island of Magic
- Release date: Tuesday 17 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
A family adventure. Join Unicorn Academy as a first-year student on Unicorn Island.
Brave or stupid? Stupid, but cleverly so. Nobody in its target audience is getting GTA 6 for Christmas anyway.
Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator
- Release date: Tuesday 17 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £22.49 / $24.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC (Xbox Play Anywhere)
A park ranger sim. Maintain trails, help visitors, check permits and handle emergencies across varied biomes, solo or in online co-op.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. Two days before Leonida’s wildlife and wetlands arrive. That’s a lot of park to compete with.
Vice: Magic City Mayhem
- Release date: Wednesday 18 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £12.49 / $14.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
A retro action-adventure through nightclubs, beaches and, the store promises, raptor-infested yachts. Fight, collect items and upgrade as you go.
Brave or stupid? Stupid, gloriously so. A game called Vice, set around Miami’s nightlife, launching the day before GTA 6. Either genius or a very long night.
Dark Rail
- Release date: Wednesday 18 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: $12.49 (UK price not yet announced)
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A turn-based management roguelike. Command the Inquisition, run an industrial city and use your train to hit prisoner quotas by hunting heretics and magical beasts.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. Launching the night before GTA 6 is a train wreck waiting to happen, though at least it brought its own train.
Grand Theft Auto VI
- Release date: Thursday 19 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not on Game Pass
- Price: £69.99 / $79.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S
Rockstar’s long-awaited sequel. Jason and Lucia are on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, caught in a criminal conspiracy across the state of Leonida, home of Vice City.
Brave or stupid? The reason this list exists. Pre-load opens on 12 November for digital pre-orders.
Tanks Sweet Tanks
- Release date: Friday 20 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- Price: £4.19 / $4.99
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A sugary, fast-paced tank shooter to play alone, with friends or against them.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. The day after GTA 6 is the one day nobody will notice anything else. A fiver might help.
After GTA 6: 23 to 30 November
Only two games have dared to launch after GTA 6 is out.
Gothic 3 Classic
- Release date: Tuesday 24 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S
The 2006 cult open-world RPG on modern Xbox for the first time, with community patch 1.75 built in, plus gamepad controls and a console UI.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. Five days after GTA 6, an old, famously janky RPG asks for 100 hours. Respect, honestly.
Marupoyo
- Release date: Thursday 26 November 2026
- Game Pass: Not announced for Game Pass
- On: Xbox Series X|S
A tilt-based maze adventure. Control Marupoyo’s momentum over 120 levels, grab treats and rescue his lost siblings.
Brave or stupid? Stupid. A week after GTA 6, a round chick rolling through mazes. Then again, nobody else has the nerve to be here.
Not on the list
- Edge of Memories has been delayed to 3 December 2026.
- DERELIKT launches in November, but its Xbox version doesn’t have a confirmed date yet.
- Let’s Sing Presents ABBA is dated for 3 November, but its Xbox listing isn’t live yet, so we’ve left it off until it is.
- DLC and expansions, including Thronefall: Craaghelm and new content for Disney Dreamlight Valley and The Division 2, aren’t included.
Every game above has its own hub on Cloudy with Games. Find them in our Games section, where we’ll keep release dates and Game Pass details up to date.
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