By Paula Beaton Microsoft has just dropped the next round of games coming to Game Pass this week, and with eight titles arriving, there’s really something for everyone!
Whether you dive in for some nostalgic Plants vs Zombies: Replanted or double down on the nostalgia with the Final Fantasy VII Remake — which I still somehow haven’t gotten around to playing — we’ve got the full list of games for you below.
- October 21st, 2026 – Sandustry (Game Preview) – (PC) – New to Premium
- October 22nd, 2026 – Dodo Duckie – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC, Premium
- October 26th, 2026 – Scramble Knights Online (Game Preview) – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC
- October 27th, 2026 – The Séance of Blake Manor – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC, Premium
- October 29th, 2026 – Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC, Premium
- October 29th, 2026 – Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC
- October 29th, 2026 – Terrible Lizards – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC
- November 3rd, 2026 – Pit of Goblin – (Series X|S, PC, Cloud) – Ultimate, PC, Premium
First up on our list of games coming to Game Pass this week is Sandustry. In this factory and automation simulation game, you’ll explore a vast and fully-destructible open world as you seek out powerful artifacts left behind by an ancient civilization. As you delve deeper into the game’s planets and expand your industrial capabilities, the challenges will grow, but so too will your ways to overcome them. With fully destructible worlds where every pixel is a resource to be harnessed, your options are limitless.
In Dodo Duckie, you’re a DUCK! With one special cap that gives you the power to switch between 2D and 3D. Use it to explore, switch perspectives, solve puzzles and save your chicken friends.
In MMO-lite adventure Scramble Knights Online you’ll embark together with friends on bite-sized, Zelda-inspired quests in the shared online kingdom of Terracott! Venture across an archipelago filled with dangerous enemies, quaint towns, puzzling dungeons, and challenges suited for a knight-in-training.
Watch out for our full review of this one coming soon to the site and over on our YouTube channel!
One of the spookiest games coming to Game Pass this week is arriving just in time for Halloween: The Séance of Blake Manor.
It is October 28th, 1897, and Private Investigator Declan Ward arrives at Blake Manor to find a missing woman.
What he finds is the Grand Séance and a group of mystics who have gathered from all corners of the world – waiting for All Hallow’s Eve, the night when the veil between worlds is thinnest. The night to tear down the barrier and speak to the dead.
Interview and interrogate your suspects, keep a record of all evidence, motivations, and clues in your journal, and confront them about their motivations when you’re certain of your deductions. Uncover the truth about Blake Manor and the mysterious séance that has brought everyone together.
Navigate Blake Manor’s haunted corridors and uncover its secrets as you race against time to save Miss Deane.
The award-winning Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade retells the original story up to the escape from Midgar, with breathtaking visuals, fast-paced gameplay, and additional story elements.This RPG delivers unforgettable characters, a powerful narrative, and a hybrid battle system that blends real-time action with strategic, command-based combat.
It also includes FF7R EPISODE INTERmission, a side story starring Yuffie Kisaragi that offers a fresh perspective running in parallel to Cloud’s journey.
Nostalgia is hitting me hard with this next game and I’ll definitely be playing Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted when it lands on Game Pass.
The classic Plants vs. Zombies returns in glorious HD! DANG! After years in Crazy Dave’s attic, the original battle between Plants and Zombies is back – bigger, brighter, and crazier than ever before! Experience the game that started it all, now remastered with upscaled HD graphics and packed with new secrets to uncover.
Revisit the epic backyard standoffs you remember, this time with new levels, fresh twists, and 15 years of never-before-seen franchise history at your fingertips. Relive the glory days of pea shooters, sunflowers, and brain-hungry chaos! Rejoin the ultimate garden defense and experience the backyard brawl that started a phenomenon – now back for a new era!
Terrible Lizards looks like my kind of game: an action adventure title that’s weird and combines horror with parkour. There’s no combat, so you’ll need to dodge and outsmart the monstrous creatures hunting you. What’s not to love?
Something is very wrong at Dalton’s Dinos, the once must-see Route 66 roadside attraction baking under the New Mexico sun. The staff have vanished, but a mysterious voice on the telephone you find in the attraction begs you for help to find a missing child.
You’d leave… if your car hadn’t died miles from anywhere. It’s 1992. No cell phones. No rideshares. No help coming, and you’ll soon find that you are not alone inside the attraction.
You’ll encounter monstrous creatures that will hunt, chase, and torment you. Take a moment to catch your breath, it may be your last.
The final entry on our list of games coming to Game Pass this week is co-op action adventure title Pit of Goblin.
Ever dreamt of being the lowest of the low, living a life so nasty and gnarly that even the rats look down on you? Well, in Pit of Goblin, that’s every day! Slap on your stinkiest boots and dive into crumbling crypts, ghastly caverns, and ghost-infested ruins. Every step is fraught with peril and surprise! Your purpose is feeding the King Queen’s bottomless gut. The best part? You can drag your goblin buddies along for the misery!
This week Xbox is also offering new in-game benefits for a couple of games, including the “XP Stock” for World of Tanks, arriving on November 3rd and a Welcome Pack for new players to free-to-play FPS The Finals.
Nine games are leaving Xbox Game Pass before month end, and we’ve listed these below. Most of these have discounts on them, so grab them before they leave the service!
- Deep Rock Galactoc
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Day of the Tentacle Remastered
- Wildgate
- Wartales
- Grim Fandango Remastered
- Full Throttle Remastered
- Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris
- Dead Static Drive
If you need any more gaming inspiration, check out our roundup of upcoming Game Pass games for November.
Fletcher Wilkinson