Xbox Recreation Cross Provides Its 18th and Last Recreation of January 2026

MySims: Cozy Bundle and Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 have joined the Xbox Recreation Cross library. Obtainable throughout a number of subscription tiers, the 2 titles mark the seventeenth and 18th additions to the service this month, rounding out the Xbox Game Pass January 2026 lineup.

Microsoft’s subscription service started the yr quietly, including simply six new titles within the first half of January. Exercise then accelerated with each scheduled and surprising releases. One instance of the latter arrived on January 23, when The Sims 1 and 2 were shadow dropped on Xbox Game Pass.

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House Marine 2 and MySims Spherical Out Xbox Recreation Cross January 2026 Wave 2 Lineup

Microsoft’s subscription library has now expanded but once more, including Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 and MySims: Cozy Bundle on Thursday, January 29. As is all the time the case with EA Play titles on Xbox Game Pass, MySims: Cozy Bundle is simply obtainable on the PC and Final tier. Conversely, Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 will also be performed with an XGP Premium-tier subscription.

With an OpenCritic common of 81 and “Very Constructive” consumer opinions on Steam, House Marine 2 is among the many most critically acclaimed diversifications of Video games Workshop’s iconic franchise in current reminiscence. It provides to a considerable lineup of Warhammer 40,000 entries on Microsoft’s subscription service, together with Darktide, Rogue Dealer, and Vermintide 2. A remaster of the original Warhammer 40k: Space Marine has also been available on Xbox Game Pass since June 2025. That is the primary time that House Marine 2 is being provided to Microsoft subscribers at no further value.

At this time’s different new addition, MySims: Cozy Bundle, additionally makes its Xbox Recreation Cross debut. The bundle contains two Wii-era titles—MySims and MySims Kingdom—packaged collectively. Though a part of The Sims franchise, the MySims spin-off sequence shares extra in widespread with Animal Crossing than with Maxis’s mainline life simulation video games. That method seems to have resonated with gamers, as mirrored within the bundle’s “Very Constructive” consumer opinions on Steam. MySims: Cozy Bundle is accessible to Xbox Recreation Cross customers on PC solely.

Upcoming Xbox Recreation Cross Video games with Confirmed Launch Dates

Date	Recreation	Recreation Cross Tier(s)	Platform(s)	Notes
Jan 29	MySims: Cozy Bundle	Final, PC	PC
Jan 29	Warhammer 40,000: House Marine II	Final, Premium, PC	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S
Feb 2	Indika	Final, Premium, PC	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S
Feb 3	Last Fantasy 2	Final, Premium, PC	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S
Feb 5	Menace	Final, PC	PC	Recreation Preview; day-one launch.
Feb 13	Excessive on Life 2	Final, PC	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S	Day-one launch.
Feb 26	Towerborne	Premium	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S	Day-one 1.0 launch. Obtainable in Recreation Preview on XGP Final and PC GP since April 2025.
Mar 12	Changed	Final, PC	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S	Day-one launch.
Mar 26	Nova Roma	Final, PC	PC	Day-one launch.
Could 19	Forza Horizon 6	Final, PC	Cloud, PC, Sequence X/S	Day-one launch.

Xbox Game Pass already has five confirmed games for February 2026: Indika, Last Fantasy 2, Menace, Excessive on Life 2, and Towerborne. Much more are anticipated to be introduced early subsequent month. Based mostly on Microsoft’s standard cadence, the Xbox Recreation Cross Wave 1 lineup for subsequent month is more likely to be formally introduced on February 3. Within the meantime, the service is ready to lose seven video games on January 31, together with Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Cataclismo, Starbound, and Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders—all video games that boast an OpenCritic common rating of no less than 80. That is on prime of the 5 titles that left on January 16. Regardless of 12 departures, January has nonetheless been a big web constructive for the Xbox Recreation Cross library, with new arrivals outnumbering removals two to at least one.