What’s Leaving on April 15
One of Game Pass’s biggest crowd-pleasers is on the clock. Grand Theft Auto 5 leaves Xbox Game Pass on April 15, rolling off both Xbox Series X/S and PC Game Pass after roughly a year back on the service.
GTA 5 won’t be alone. Microsoft’s “leaving soon” lineup for that day also lists Ashen, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, and My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery, all departing across console and PC on April 15. Strategy sim Terra Invicta exits the PC Game Pass catalog the same day. If any of these have been sitting in your queue, this is your heads-up to start downloading and finish your saves before they rotate out—“grab it while you can!”
GTA 5 is the headliner here, and for obvious reasons. Even more than a decade after launch, it’s consistently among the most played titles on Xbox thanks to its sprawling campaign and the ongoing pull of GTA Online. With its sequel, GTA 6, set to launch later this year, interest around Rockstar’s crime epic hasn’t exactly cooled.
New Additions Offset the Loss
April’s departures are paired with new arrivals. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 joins Game Pass on April 2, while Final Fantasy IV lands on April 7. If you’re in an RPG mood, that duo offers a fresh, big-ticket turn-based adventure alongside a landmark classic—solid reasons to keep a sub active even as a juggernaut like GTA 5 rolls off.
Scheduling like this is standard for Game Pass. Popular catalog titles cycle out as others come in, keeping the library moving without letting any one game dominate the spotlight for too long. In practice, that means you’ll often have a closing window to wrap up one blockbuster while something new and tempting drops into your queue a week earlier.