{"id":77495,"date":"2026-08-18T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77495"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:30:01","slug":"xbox-game-pass-reveals-its-next-wave-of-august-2026-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=77495","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Game Pass Reveals Its Next Wave Of August 2026 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/resonance-a-plague-tale-preview.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second wave of games for Xbox Game Pass in August has been revealed, and this month, you can check out a few day-one releases amongst the releases. Several of these games will also be available through Game Pass Premium, as the library of that tier continues to expand.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-xbox-game-pass-august-wave-nbsp-2-games\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Xbox Game Pass August wave&nbsp;2 games<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"h-august-18\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 18<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Egging On <\/strong>(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC), now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-august-19\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 19<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vapor World: Over the Mind <\/strong>(Cloud, Console, and PC), Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass via Game Preview<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BlazBlue Entropy Effect X <\/strong>(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC), now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Relooted <\/strong>(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC), now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-august-20\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 20<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Starsand Island <\/strong>(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC), now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-august-25\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 25<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aerial_Knight\u2019s DropShot<\/strong> (Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC), now&nbsp;with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Blood Dungeon <\/strong>(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, and PC), Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-august-27\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 27<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy <\/strong>(Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC), Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-august-31\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 31<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Young Suns <\/strong>(Cloud, Console, and PC), now with Game Pass Premium; joining Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-september-1\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">September 1<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shelldiver <\/strong>(Cloud, Console, and PC), Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, PC Game Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder, Game Pass will also lose four games on August 31, including CD Projekt Red&#8217;s hit fantasy game The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-pass-reveals-its-next-wave-of-august-2026-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second wave of games for Xbox Game Pass in August has been revealed, and this month, you can check out a few day-one releases&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2739,258,321,1541,535,7156,162],"class_list":["post-77495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-august","tag-game","tag-games","tag-pass","tag-reveals","tag-wave","tag-xbox","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}