Xbox Raises Game Pass Ultimate Price by 50%, Updates Essential and Premium Plans

Xbox Raises Game Pass Ultimate Price by 50%, Updates Essential and Premium Plans
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2025-10-01

Xbox Raises Game Pass Ultimate Price by 50%, Updates Essential and Premium Plans

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate saw a 50% price hike and now costs $29.99 per month. According to the announcement published on Xbox Wire on Oct. 1, 2025, the new price reflects the expanded catalog, new partner benefits, and upgraded cloud gaming experience.

The announcement declares that the Ultimate plan will now include the Fortnite Crew service and the Ubisoft+ Classics collection.

Microsoft Gaming also pledges that, from now on, Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will get access to over 75 Day One releases per year, citing the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, High on Life 2, Keeper, Ninja Gaiden 4, and The Outer Worlds 2 as examples of such releases.

Game Pass Core subscribers will be automatically moved to Essential, while members of the Standard subscription plan will transition to Premium, and Ultimate subscribers will remain on Ultimate.

As for Premium and Essential, starting today they will cost $14.99 and $9.99, respectively.

While Ultimate offers a catalog of over 400 titles, Premium comes with a list of over 200 titles, and Essential offers more than 50 games, according to the company’s statement.

List of titles joining Xbox Game Pass on Oct. 1, 2025, for Ultimate plan subscribers:

  • Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed II (PC)
  • Assassin’s Creed III Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag: Freedom Cry (PC)
  • Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (PC)
  • Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD (PC)
  • Assassin’s Creed Revelations (PC)
  • Assassin’s Creed Rogue Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed Syndicate (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed The Ezio Collection (Cloud and Console)
  • Assassin’s Creed Unity (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Child of Light (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Far Cry 3 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Far Cry Primal (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Hungry Shark World (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Monopoly Madness (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Monopoly 2024 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • OddBallers (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Prince of Persia The Lost Crown (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show (Cloud and Console)
  • Rabbids: Party of Legends (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Rayman Legends (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Risk Urban Assault (Cloud and Console)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Skull and Bones (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Steep (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • The Crew 2 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • The Settlers: New Allies (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Tom Clancy’s The Division (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Trackmania Turbo (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Transference (Cloud and Console)
  • Trials Fusion (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Trials of the Blood Dragon (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Trials Rising (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Uno (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Watch_Dogs (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Wheel of Fortune (Cloud and Console)
  • Zombi (Cloud, PC, and Console)

List of titles joining Xbox Game Pass on Oct. 1, 2025, for Premium plan subscribers (which will also be available for Ultimate):

List of titles joining Xbox Game Pass on Oct. 1, 2025, for Essential plan subscribers (which will also be available for Ultimate and Premium):

  • Cities: Skylines Remastered (Cloud and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Disney Dreamlight Valley (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Hades (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Warhammer 40,000 Darktide (Cloud, PC, and Console)