10 In, 10 Out: Game Pass April's Second Wave Drops

Ten games arriving, ten games leaving, and exactly ten days to play what's about to disappear. Xbox announced the second batch of Game Pass additions for April 2026, and this wave is a significant step up from the first half of the month, which was mostly existing titles shuffling between subscription tiers rather than anything new.

s start tomorrow, April 21, with Vampire Crawlers, the Poncle-developed spinoff that turns Vampire Survivors into a turn-based roguelite card-driven dungeon crawler. It's a day-one Game Pass launch, and given how many hours Vampire Survivors consumed across the service, this one should land well. Alongside it on April 21 are Little Rocket Lab, a cozy machine-building RPG, and Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato, a narrative adventure set in South America.

From there, the cadence stays steady. Kiln, Double Fine's pottery-meets-combat arena game, hits April 23 as a day-one launch. Aphelion, Don't Nod's sci-fi adventure built in partnership with the European Space Agency, arrives April 28. I'm curious about that one; Don't Nod has been in a rough stretch commercially, and a Game Pass day-one deal could give Aphelion the audience it might struggle to find at retail. Trepang2, the hyper-violent FPS that flew under most people's radars when it first launched, joins April 29. If you missed it, think F.E.A.R. with modern production values and a bullet-time system that actually feels good.

April 30 brings three more: Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era in Game Preview (PC only), the multiplayer ragdoll hangout Sledding Game (also Game Preview), and bullet-heaven builder TerraTech Legion. Then on May 5, Final Fantasy V rounds out the batch, continuing Microsoft's slow march through the classic Final Fantasy catalogue after Final Fantasy IV landed on the service earlier this month.

What You're Losing

The departure list hits harder than usual. All ten games leave on April 30, so you have ten days to finish anything you've been meaning to get to. Citizen Sleeper is the biggest loss here, a brilliant narrative RPG set on a decaying space station that deserved a bigger audience than it got. If you haven't played it, this is your deadline. Hunt: Showdown 1896 leaving is notable too, though that game's dedicated playerbase likely owns it outright by now.

The full removal list: Citizen Sleeper, Creatures of Ava, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, Endless Legend 2, Goat Simulator, Goat Simulator Remastered, Hunt: Showdown 1896, NHL 24 (via EA Play), and Revenge of the Savage Planet. Losing both Goat Simulator and its remaster simultaneously feels like overkill, but that's how licensing deals work.

What makes this wave feel better than the first half of April is the number of day-one launches. Vampire Crawlers, Kiln, Aphelion, Sledding Game, and Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era all arrive on Game Pass the same day they go on sale. Five out of ten titles being day-one additions is the kind of ratio that actually justifies the subscription. The first wave was mostly reshuffling the deck; this one is dealing new cards.

I'd also flag that Final Fantasy V arriving on May 5 puts it squarely alongside renewed attention on the franchise. The FF14 Patch 7.5 trailer dropped this weekend showing off new story quests, an alliance raid, and the Beastmaster limited job, while a Lucky Bancho census revealed FF14's active character count dropped to 770,000 from 930,000. Square Enix is clearly hoping FanFest and the 7.5 patch slow that decline, and having Final Fantasy V pop up on Game Pass the same week keeps the brand visible across platforms. Whether that's coordinated or coincidental, the timing works.

The full list of additions with platforms and tiers is available on Xbox Wire. Final Fantasy V is also listed on the PlayStation Store for those outside the Game Pass ecosystem. Every departing title leaves April 30, so plan your week accordingly.