New Year is coming and it will bring with it dozens of exciting games We're looking forward to it. Although it's usually a quiet month January is truly full of new 2026 releases.The beginning of the year is also a great time to clear out some of your backlog, especially if the games on this list are about to leave Game Pass.
For this week's recommendations, we want to highlight three games that will be leaving Xbox Game Pass on January 15th.
Neon White
Some games are so unique that they cannot be replicated. This is the case with Neon Whiteamazing genre game from Angel Matrix studio. This is a first person shooter. This is a high-speed parkour platformer. This is a card game. Somehow all of these things come together to create a stylistically memorable game about sinners killing demons for a chance at going to Heaven. The goal of each level is to kill the demons and quickly reach the end of the level. To do this, you take weapon cards with which you can shoot at enemies. But instead, these cards can also be discarded to trigger a platforming move, such as a double jump. Mastering a level is all about knowing when to kill and when to move, creating a one-of-a-kind action game that I have yet to see any game even try to copy. —Giovanni Colantonio
Flintlock: Siege of Dawn
“No peace until dawn!” this is the slogan for Flintlock: Siege of Dawnbut I for one won't rest until more people play this damn good game. Flintlock is a third-person action game officially described as “Souls-lite”; his melee combat is very strong and parry-oriented, and his bosses hit just as hard. Even though it's difficult, Flintlock nowhere near as stunning as the FromSoftware joint. In it, you play as a soldier accompanied by a god who sets out to defeat the army of the dead and kill the vengeful gods of the world before they kill you. Magic and shooting go well together in Flintlockcreating a unique setting and world that sets it apart from other Sulayks. —Austin Manchester
Climbing
For those who really miss Deus Ex (hello), Neon Giant's No law was one of the under-the-radar announcements from the 2025 Game Awards. It's very far(No law doesn't have a release date or even a window), but you can check out the studio's cyberpunk bona fides at Climbing before it leaves Game Pass. It's a jumble of genres—part twin-stick shooter, part RPG, part Diablo-style loot fest—that doesn't always come together. But energy. Vibrations! Climbing uses a wide range of dystopian fiction to create its richly realized cyberpunk future. And the co-op is also very pleasant. —Ari Notis
