Xbox giveth and Xbox taketh away. November saw some big names come to the Game Pass subscription service, like Stalker 2, Flight Simulator 2024, and Aliens: Dark Descent, but December sees some some real bangers removed. One of them— Forza Horizon 4 —is even worse affected, entering the misery of a storefront delisting.

A total of 6 additional games will leave on December 31. The list includes BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Humankind, LEGO 2K Drive, Party Animals, and more. In total, Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass will lose 13 games this month. Below is the list of titles leaving at the end of December:

Update [Tue 3rd Dec 2024, 6am]: It turns out that just seven games will be leaving Xbox Game Pass in early December rather than the original eight that were reported, as Hello Neighbor 2 is no longer on the list. We also now know what's leaving Xbox Game Pass in late December, as covered elsewhere on Pure Xbox:

Microsoft announces the first wave of the December 2024 Xbox Game Pass lineup, which includes five new titles and several XGP Standard additions.

So far, Xbox Game Pass subscribers only have two games to look forward to when it comes to the December 2024 lineup.

As usual, you can get a discount of at least 20% on these Xbox Game Pass titles until they leave in a few weeks' time, and some of them may be reduced even further - Party Animals, for example, has a 50% discount on the Xbox Store.

Microsoft added the remastered Spyro trilogy to Game Pass earlier in November, letting subscribers play as the iconic purple dragon. Now, Microsoft is taking subscribers back to the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone in the sequel to the award-winning Stalker.

Xbox Game Pass subscribers can have a good time playing Little Kitty, Big City, Aliens: Dark Descent, or Nine Sols this weekend.

Xbox Game Pass is unquestionably worth the subscription fee, but which of the available games are the best use of your hard drive space?