Xbox Game Pass Ultimate adds its 100th game for 2025

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate have added 9 kings to its content library. The early access title is the fifth new addition to the subscription service in August 2025, as well as the 100th new Xbox Game Pass Ultimate edition since the beginning of the year.

Developed by Brazilian Studio Sad Socket, 9 kings is a strategy auto battle game with a fantasy environment and roguelike elements. It is designed for fast sessions that offer meaningful progression rewards without wasting the player's time. The swing-based gameplay loop involves drawing a card, placing it on a 3×3 grid to distribute a new device or upgrade an existing one and then look at the resulting installation in the battle, as each round ends with two kingdoms that set it out in an automated battle.

9 Kings go with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass

Less than three months after the late May debut, 9 kings Went to the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, after being added to its content library on August 14. The strategy title is currently in early access and only available on PC, so playing it via Microsoft's subscription service requires an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass membership. Sad Socket has previously confirmed plans on gate 9 kings To both consoles and mobile devices, but the transition to additional platforms will not occur during the game's early access phase, which is expected to run until about May 2026, according to Auto Battlers Steam FAQ.

When will 9 Kings arrive at the Xbox Game Pass standard?

Since the debut of the Xbox Game Pass Standard in the summer of 2024, this budget level has usually settled at least six months after PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in getting day-one-titlar-of which point they can no longer be called “day-one” publishing. However, previews of games often remain in early access anymore, and there are still insufficient historical data to predict when they can reach the Xbox Game Pass Standard Library. That said, assumption 9 kings Calls for its currently planned development line and is still at Microsoft's subscription service in May 2026, it seems as the earliest possible window to land on the XGP standard.

Since Wave 1 Xbox Game Pass lineup for August 2025 was announced on August 5, August 19, the most likely date for Microsoft seems to describe the Wave 2 list. This party is already known for including Wound and GEARS OF WAR: RELOADED.

New and upcoming Xbox Game Pass Games

Meanwhile, three titles are scheduled to leave the Xbox Game Pass on August 15: AnthemThe Persona 3 reloadand Agricultural simulator 22. During the rest of the year, the subscription service already has several confirmed day-one releases, including Ninja Gaiden 4The KeeperAnd the console version of Frostpunk 2.