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Resonance: A Plague Tale and Blood Dungeon join Game Pass
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Microsoft has confirmed the second wave of August's Xbox and PC Game Pass additions, headlined by the day-one arrival of Resonance: A Plague Tale, a prequel set on Crete that shifts the acclaimed series from stealth towards combat-driven action, and Blood Dungeon, a new Metroidvania-style title from Nidhogg creator Messhof. The update also confirmed which titles are leaving the service, giving subscribers a final window to play them before removal.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy lands on 27 August, alongside other new releases including Relooted, Starsand Island, BlazBlue Entropy Effect X, Vapor World: Over the Mind and Aerial_Knight's DropShot, spread across 19 to 31 August, with Shelldiver following on 1 September. Six games depart the service on 31 August, among them Another Crab's Treasure, Neon Abyss, One Lonely Outpost, I Am Your Beast and NBA 2K26, while The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered Edition leaves slightly later, on 6 September.
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In short
- Resonance: A Plague Tale and Blood Dungeon join Game Pass day one
- Several more titles arrive through late August into September
- Six games, including NBA 2K26, exit Game Pass on 31 August
How this story developed
- 3 months ago Microsoft followed up with further detail on the same additions, noting Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy's cross-platform rollout across cloud, console and PC and its early praise for set-pieces and puzzles, while narrowing the list of departing new-release day companions to Relooted, Starsand Island, BlazBlue Entropy Effect X and Vapor World: Over the Mind ahead of Shelldiver's 1 September arrival.
- 3 months ago Microsoft confirmed the second wave of August's Xbox and PC Game Pass line-up, led by the day-one debut of combat-focused prequel Resonance: A Plague Tale on 27 August and Messhof's Metroidvania Blood Dungeon, alongside a set of six titles, including Another Crab's Treasure and NBA 2K26, scheduled to leave the service on 31 August and 6 September.
Explained simply
Microsoft's Xbox and PC Game Pass is a subscription service that gives members access to a rotating library of games for a monthly fee, similar in concept to Netflix but for video games. Titles are regularly added and removed, with Microsoft typically announcing new additions in two batches each month. The service spans cloud streaming, Xbox consoles and PC, so games can join or leave any of those platforms.
The standout addition this time is Resonance: A Plague Tale, a prequel to the well-regarded A Plague Tale series, which had built a reputation for stealth-based gameplay before this new instalment leans more towards combat. It arrives alongside other new releases from a mix of established and independent studios, while a separate group of existing titles is due to leave the service around the same time, as is standard practice to make way for new additions.
This kind of announcement matters mainly to subscribers deciding whether to keep or start a subscription, since games leaving the service are typically no longer playable without buying them separately, while new arrivals can be played immediately as part of the existing subscription cost.
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Originally published by Eurogamer as “Here’s your next batch of Xbox and PC Game Pass games for August”.