Microsoft has announced the exciting lineup for Wave 1 of Xbox Game Pass for May 2025, showcasing 12 new games set to enhance your gaming experience until May 20. The highlight of this wave is undoubtedly Doom: The Dark Ages, the latest addition to id Software's iconic first-person shooter series, which will be available as a day-one launch on Game Pass. As a Microsoft-owned title, it promises to deliver an intense gaming experience from the get-go. But that's not all; May 2025 is packed with other day-one Game Pass launches that are sure to keep you hooked.
Starting today, May 6, Dredge (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) is now available on Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard. This single-player fishing adventure takes you on a journey with a dark twist:
Dredge is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.
May 7 brings a slew of new additions to Game Pass, including Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) across Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard, Dungeons of Hinterberg (Console) on Game Pass Standard, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Xbox Series X|S) on Game Pass Standard, and Metal Slug Tactics (Console) also on Game Pass Standard.
On May 8, get ready for Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S), a day-one title available on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass:
In a future knocked off its axis by corporate greed and stupidity, you have been made redundant and abandoned on the far edge of space with little gear and no safety net. You must explore every nook and cranny, collect dozens of upgrades, and turn over every mysterious alien rock if you want to get revenge on your former employer and return to Earth.
Also on May 8, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (Cloud, Console, and PC) joins Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard:
Join the legendary Turtle brothers straight from the sewer and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions. With the help of April’s insightful reports from the streets and Splinter’s sage guidance, gear up to fight crime and unravel an epic saga of justice and chaos!
On May 13, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (Cloud and Console) returns to the Game Pass library on Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass Standard:
Making a return to the Game Pass library! Fight together with your friends against the forces of Chaos and Skaven in this epic 4-player co-op game set in the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world. Vermintide 2 expands the intense first-person combat with a brand-new enemy faction, 15 new career paths, talent trees, new weapons, an improved loot system, and more.
The main event arrives on May 15 with Doom: The Dark Ages (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) hitting Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass as a day-one release:
Doom: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story worthy of the Doom Slayer’s legend. In this third installment of the modern Doom series, players will step into the blood-stained boots of the Doom Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell. Get a head start on slaying demons with the Premium Upgrade, including up to 2-Day Early Access, the campaign DLC at launch, and more.
A day later, on May 16, Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC) launches on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass as another day-one title:
Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo is a papercraft adventure game where you’ll meet the many good and not-so-good folks of Limbo, a place where souls with deep regrets are cursed into repeating the same day on a loop.
Rounding out the May 2025 Wave 1 lineup on May 20 are Firefighting Simulator: The Squad and Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, and PC), both available across Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Game Pass Standard.
Xbox Game Pass May 2025 Wave 1 lineup:
- Dredge (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – May 6
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard - Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 7
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard - Dungeons of Hinterberg (Console) – May 7
Now with Game Pass Standard - Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn (Xbox Series X|S) – May 7
Now with Game Pass Standard - Metal Slug Tactics (Console) – May 7
Now with Game Pass Standard - Revenge of the Savage Planet (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – May 8
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 8
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard - Warhammer: Vermintide 2 (Cloud and Console) – May 13
Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Standard - Doom: The Dark Ages (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S) – May 15
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass - Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 16
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass - Firefighting Simulator: The Squad (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard - Police Simulator: Patrol Officers (Cloud, Console, and PC) – May 20
Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, Game Pass Standard
Leaving Xbox Game Pass on May 15:
Several titles will be leaving the Game Pass library on May 15. Make sure to take advantage of your membership discount to save up to 20% and keep them in your collection:
- Brothers A Tale of Two Sons (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Chants of Sennaar (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Dune: Spice Wars (Game Preview) (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- Hauntii (Cloud, Console, and PC)
- The Big Con (Cloud, Console, and PC)
