Xbox Game Pass Is Losing At Least 8 Games on March 15

The Xbox Game Pass content catalog is losing at least eight games—including multiple critically acclaimed titles—on March 15.

​The Xbox Game Pass content catalog is losing at least eight games—including multiple critically acclaimed titles—on March 15.  Read More Gaming

Evil West and at least seven more titles are leaving Xbox Game Pass on March 15. The next wave of departures will mark the second blow to Yakuza fans with an Xbox Game Pass membership in a span of just a few weeks.

Microsoft’s subscription service rotates out games from its catalog twice a month. The latest such batch of removals happened on February 28, when Xbox Game Pass lost nine titles: Maneater, PAW Patrol World, Space Engineers, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, GRIS, F1 22, Yakuza 3 Remastered, and Yakuza 4 Remastered.

At least eight more titles are set to follow on March 15, according to the newly updated “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox Cloud Gaming app. The mid-March 2025 departures include Evil West, Lies of P, and MLB The Show 24, as well as No More Heroes 3 and Solar Ash. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated is also leaving the service on the 15th, together with Yakuza 5 Remastered and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. All of these titles have been available for at least a year, debuting on Xbox Game Pass no later than March 2024.

Yakuza Games Are Continuing Their Xbox Game Pass Exodus

Two Yakuza titles had already left Xbox Game Pass on February 28, when the service lost the remasters of Yakuza 3 and 4. Following these mid-March 2025 departures, Microsoft’s subscribers will only have access to four more installments in Sega’s long-running series: Yakuza 0, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and the Kiwami remakes of the first two games.

None of the titles from the March 15 departure wave are easily beatable in a single day. Achievement hunters wanting to make the most of their subscriptions may want to prioritize Solar Ash and the Battle for Bikini Bottom remake, which can be fully completed in a few days’ time. As for those eager to play as many Like a Dragon games as possible before they leave Xbox Game Pass, Yakuza 5 is one of the most difficult series entries to rush, as grabbing all of its achievements can take north of 150 hours. Only Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 3 are widely considered to be more time-consuming to fully complete among the fandom.

The “Leaving Soon” section of the Xbox Cloud Gaming app has historically been an incomplete source of upcoming removals. It’s hence possible that even more titles will be leaving the service on March 15. The full list of departures is expected to be confirmed on March 4, as part of Microsoft’s announcement of the first wave of March 2025 Xbox Game Pass releases.