October 2026 brings five significant Xbox releases aimed at revitalising the platform following a difficult year of layoffs and departures.

– Gears of War: E-Day presents a prequel to the franchise featuring traditional testosterone-fuelled action gameplay and Horde mode.
– Star Wars: Galactic Racer applies Burnout's high-speed racing mechanics to the Star Wars universe with a roguelike-inspired single-player campaign.
– Echo Weaver is a Metroidvania indie title on Game Pass where time-manipulation powers enable progression through a 2D puzzle-adventure world.
– Valor Mortis is a first-person Soulslike from Ghostrunner's developers, launching day one on Game Pass, set in a corrupted 19th-century Europe.
– Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reintroduces the DMZ extraction shooter mode alongside a campaign following a South Korean soldier defending his homeland.