Xbox Game Pass is the big subscription service Microsoft is pushing. They might have moved away from bringing out exclusives to their console platform. However, in its place, Microsoft is pushing multiplatform releases and Game Pass as a means to enjoy the latest and greatest. Today, it was officially confirmed that the games are heading our way during the first wave of August.
If you don’t already have something lined up this month to play, maybe Game Pass will surprise you. There’s usually a good, varied amount of titles to select from. In this case, there’s a total of eight games highlighted for the month.
Taking to the official Xbox Wire blog, the folks over at Microsoft revealed what games are coming to the subscription service. If you’ve been a subscriber to the service for a long time, then you know we get two waves of video games. The first wave typically comes during the first week of the month. That will take us through the first half of the month. Then, midway into August, we’ll get our second wave of video game reveals.
Xbox Game Pass August 2025 Wave 1
- Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC) – Available Today
- Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
- Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Xbox Series X|S) – August 6
- Now with Game Pass Standard
- Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (Xbox Series X|S) – August 6
- Now with Game Pass Standard
- MechWarrior 5: Clans (Xbox Series X|S) – August 6
- Now with Game Pass Standard
- Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap (Xbox Series X|S) – August 6
- Now with Game Pass Standard
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 7
- Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite (Cloud, Console, and PC) – August 12
- Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
- 9 Kings (Game Preview) (PC) – August 14
- Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass
Those are the first half of August 2025 titles you can expect on the service. Fortunately, we’re even seeing some games start to make their way on Xbox Game Pass Standard. Hopefully, there’s something here to pique your interest! Meanwhile, we still have a new batch of video games to enjoy that came out during the second half of July. If you missed out on what was recently added, you can find the new games right here.
