Xbox Game Pass is losing the Sandbox game and 2 other titles today

Xbox Game Pass losing Nuclear guard And two other titles later today, October 15. Despite the departures, October 2025 is forming up to be a large net profit for the service, with the Xbox Game Passport comments from the first half of the month over many relocations about 18 to 1.

Although it is common to see Microsoft's subscription catalog add more titles than it removes for a month, October 2025 was strongly skewed by an unusual event: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate unexpectedly and adds 48 games. On October 1, surprising batch, largely taken from Ubisoft+ Classics Library, marked the single largest enlargement in the eight -year history of the service. It coincided with a $ 10 price increase, as Microsoft utilized Ubisoft's huge rear catalog to compensate the effects of the 50% increase.

Xbox Game Pass is losing the core guard later today

In the first wave of removal since the large expansion, Xbox Game Pass will now lose three titles: Nuclear guardThe Cocoonand Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed. The trio will leave the service later today October 15, probably at midnight local time. Nuclear guard– Want has been on the Xbox Game Pass since the end of August 2024 – is outstanding title from the upcoming wave of departures, and has almost 21,000 “very positive” Steam Reviews and over 3 million in estimated sales on Valve's store front.

All titles leaving the Xbox Game Pass game on October 15

Game	Added	OpenCritic Avg. Do	How long to beat
Cocoon	2023 September	87	5–6 hours
Nuclear guard	Aug 2024	87	34-133 hours
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed	May 2025	62	11-17 hours

Geometric Interactive's Puzzle platforms Cocoon Is the only member of this soon-to-the-party trio that can be realistically struck in a single day, with crowdsourced data indicating that a single Playthrough of the 2023 game takes 5.5 hours on average. As tradition, Xbox Game Pass -members can currently buy CocoonThe TMNT: Mutants releasedand Nuclear guard on up to 20% discount. With the permission of subscriber discount is expected to be available as long as the titles remain in the XGP directory.

Based on Microsoft's usual cadence, the next round of Xbox Game Pass departures will probably take place on October 31. The removal of the end-of-month is usually revealed together with the second wave that tends to be announced on the third Tuesday of each month. However, it is unclear if that schedule will hold this time, as the disclosure of Wave 1 Xbox Game Passport range for October 2025 was uncharacteristically long. It stretched all the way to The outer worlds 2Planned to arrive on October 29, which would normally be part of a Wave 2 approach.