Xbox Game Pass gets Mortal Kombat 1, this long-awaited science-fiction shooter, and more in December — here's what is included in the year's last batch

Here at last we arrive, with the final wave of games coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2025 announced via Xbox Wire on Tuesday.

It's a mixed grab bag, with some new games like Routine launching day one into the service, as well as existing titles like Mortal Kombat 1 coming over for subscribers to play. Several games like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle were already available for Ultimate and PC subscribers, and are now coming to the Premium tier of the service.

Notably, there is also a batch of new Essential games, adding to the small but steady list of games players on the lowest tier have access to. You can find the full list of games coming across December below:

December 2, 2025

• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, Premium, PC

December 3, 2025

• Medieval Dynasty (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Essential
• Monster Train 2 (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Premium
• Spray Paint Simulator (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, Premium, PC
• Stellaris (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Essential
• World War Z: Aftermath (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Essential

December 4, 2025

• 33 Immortals (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Premium
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Premium
• Routine (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, PC

December 9, 2025

• A Game About Digging a Hole (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, Premium, PC
• Death Howl (Windows PC) - Ultimate, PC
• Dome Keeper (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, Premium, PC

December 10, 2025

• Mortal Kombat 1 (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, Premium, PC
• Bratz: Rhythm and Style (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Windows PC) - Ultimate, Premium, PC

December 11, 2025

What is leaving Xbox Game Pass in December?

As always, there are some games that are exiting the service, with a couple of games leaving at the halfway mark for December and at the very end of the year. If you want to keep playing these titles, you'll need to buy them:

• Mortal Kombat 11 - December 15
• Still Wakes the Deep - December 15
• Wildfrost - December 15
• Carrion - December 31
• Hell Let Loose - December 31

The year closes out

With the winter holidays soon to descend, this is almost assuredly the last wave of Xbox Game Pass titles we'll see for the year. Mortal Kombat 1 is a solid addition (it's worth playing the campaign at the very least) and players on the lower tiers can now enjoy games that have previously been available in Ultimate, such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

2026 is promising a similar first-party slate, so we'll have to wait and see how things go when the new year arrives. In the meantime, if you need to stock up on Xbox Game Pass, there's still a discount running at Amazon.

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