Game Pass June 2026 Wave 1: Persona 5 Royal Returns, Five Games Leave
Persona 5 Royal is back on Game Pass starting June 9 — and if you missed it the first time, that's over 100 hours of JRPG waiting for you across Cloud, Console, and PC. Microsoft's Wave 1 lineup for June 2026 leans heavily indie and co-op rather than big first-party blockbusters, but there's still enough here to keep subscribers busy before the mid-month departures hit.
The new arrivals
Nine games join the service between June 4 and 16. The highlights: Persona 5 Royal (June 9) is the standout, the beloved Atlus RPG about Tokyo high-schoolers moonlighting as phantom thieves. It's a natural replacement for subscribers who finished Metaphor: ReFantazio and want another long-form RPG to sink into.
The other notable day-one addition is Solarpunk (June 8), a relaxed survival crafting game set on floating islands, developed by two-person German studio Cyberwave and published by rokaplay. It lands in PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate on launch day — the kind of low-pressure co-op game that tends to thrive on the subscription model.
June 11 is the busiest single day, with three titles dropping at once: Beastro, Frog Sqwad, and Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions (early access). Boxing sim Undisputed also arrives on June 8, and Junkster closes out Wave 1 on June 16, per Game Rant.
Five games leaving June 15
This is the part worth acting on now. Five titles leave the catalog on June 15:
- Jurassic World Evolution 2 - Lost in Random: The Eternal Die - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine — Master Crafted Edition - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
If you've been sitting on any of these, June 15 is your deadline. TMNT: Shredder's Revenge and Scott Pilgrim in particular are two of the best couch co-op beat-'em-ups on the service — worth finishing or buying before they go, according to The Escapist.
What the lineup signals
No major first-party AAA title headlines June's Wave 1 — Xbox is clearly spacing out its big releases. But Persona 5 Royal's return is a genuine crowd-pleaser, and the indie-heavy slate gives co-op fans plenty to explore without spending extra. Subscribers on the fence about renewing have a concrete reason to stick around at least through mid-June.
Source: XBOX Wire