Microsoft aims to appease its subscribers with Ninja Gaiden 4 and The Outer Worlds 2 after the price increase caused discontent. However, additional titles will be added to Game Pass in October!
A lot has happened with Game Pass in recent weeks, and hardly any of it has been good news. Users of the subscription model have had to swallow a hefty price increase. At least there is some small relief for subscribers in Germany: those who keep their subscription will continue to pay the old prices for the time being.
To calm the mood again, what’s needed now is, of course, fresh games in the subscription service! Above all, the return of a legendary ninja in October should ensure this.
Quick navigation:
- Highlight: Ninja Gaiden 4
- All other new games in October 2025
- All departures in October 2025
Update on October 23, 2025: The last games for October 2025 have been added.
Highlight: Ninja Gaiden 4
- Genre: Hack and Slash
- Platforms: Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S
- Release: October 21
It’s been 13 years since Ninja Gaiden 3 was released. Now, the legendary ninja Ryu Hayabusa returns and cuts his way through Tokyo’s enemies with pomp and circumstance. But he’s not alone; the young Yakumo is also playable with his own set of weapons.
Together, the masked heroes must find a way to stop the ongoing miasma rain in Tokyo—and that path is, of course, full of fights.
All other new games in October 2025
October 8
- Supermarket Simulator (Genre: Simulation – Cloud, Console, and PC)
October 9
- Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition (Genre: Role-playing game – PC)
- Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition (Genre: Role-playing game – PC)
October 14
- The Casting of Frank Stone (Genre: Horror Adventure – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
October 15
- Ball x Pit (Genre: Rogue-Lite – Cloud, Console, and PC)
- The Grinch: Christmas Adventure (Genre: Platformer – Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Eternal Strands (Genre: Action-Adventure – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
- He is Coming (Genre: Role-playing game – PC)
- Ninja Gaiden 2 Black (Genre: Hack and Slash – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
October 16
- Pax Dei (Genre: MMO – PC)
October 17
- Keeper (Genre: Adventure – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
October 21
- Evil West (Genre: Action-Adventure – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
October 23
- PowerWash Simulator 2 (Genre: Simulation – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
- Bounty Star (Genre: Mech Action Adventure – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
October 24
- Super Fantasy Kingdom (Early Access) (Genre: Roguelite city builder – PC)
October 28
- Halls of Torment (action roguelite – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
October 29
- The Outer Worlds 2 (genre: sci-fi RPG – Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X-S)
For more information on the Game Pass release of The Outer Worlds 2, see the related article.
All departures in October 2025
Of course, a few titles will have to leave Game Pass again, but this time the number is clearly limited. On October 15, the following will disappear from the subscription:
- Cocoon (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Core Keeper (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Cloud, Console, and PC)
Now it’s your turn: Feel free to write in the comments whether you’re excited about the new games coming out in October or whether you’re still frustrated about the price increase. Which title are you most looking forward to? Maybe you’ll take a trip down memory lane and dive into Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2?
