Xbox Game Pass has officially added Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, which is now available on two of its tiers and expected to reach at least one more in the near future. The latest title from French developer Asobo Studio is the service’s seventh new addition and fifth day-one release in August 2026, as well as the 129th Xbox Game Pass arrival of the year.
Resonance is the third installment in the A Plague Tale franchise, after 2022’s A Plague Tale: Requiem. However, Asobo envisioned the new game as a prequel rather than a the threequel to Amicia and Hugo’s story. It stars Sophia, a supporting character introduced in Requiem, and takes place 15 years earlier. Requiem received five nominations at The Game Awards 2022: Game of the Year, Best Action/Adventure, Best Narrative, Best Score and Music, and Best Performance for Charlotte McBurney’s portrayal of Amicia. It lost the GOTY accolade to Elden Ring and the other four categories to God of War Ragnarok.
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Now Available on Game Pass
Following up on that critical success, Asobo Studio officially launched Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy on August 27, simultaneously bringing it to most major platforms, including Xbox Game Pass. The third Plague Tale game is also the second consecutive one to join Microsoft’s subscription service from its first day on the market. Resonance is available to XGP subscribers on the Series X/S consoles and PC, plus cloud streaming. It joins the catalog just two days after Blood Dungeon became another day-one Xbox Game Pass release, making Resonance the second brand-new game to reach the service this week. Outside of Microsoft’s ecosystem, the threequel is available on the PS5 and Steam.
Rather than returning to Amicia and Hugo, Resonance follows a younger Sophia as she flees Venice and heads toward the mysterious Minotaur’s Island. Asobo has put a greater emphasis on direct melee combat this time around while retaining stealth, exploration, and environmental puzzles, with the story also reaching back into the Minoan era and the origins of the Macula.
All Upcoming Xbox Game Pass Games With Confirmed Release Dates
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[▲] Date |
[▲] Game |
Game Pass Tier(s) |
Platform(s) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Aug 27 |
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
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Aug 31 |
Young Suns |
Premium |
Cloud, Console, PC |
Available on higher tiers since Nov 2025. |
|
Sep 1 |
Shelldiver |
Ultimate, Premium, PC |
Cloud, Console, PC |
|
|
Sep 29 |
Minecraft Dungeons 2 |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
|
Oct 6 |
Gears of War: E-Day |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
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Oct 8 |
Forever Ago |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
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Oct 13 |
Valor Mortis |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release; originally slated for Sep 25 before delay. |
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Feb 18 ’27 |
Persona 4 Revival |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
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Feb 23 ’27 |
Fable |
Ultimate, PC |
Cloud, PC, Series X/S |
Day-one release. |
The narrative-driven action adventure caps a comparatively restrained month for Xbox catalog updates, reflecting the traditional industry-wide release slowdown at the end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Earlier Xbox Game Pass arrivals in August 2026 did include some head-turning titles, such as the self-explanatory-but-no-less-intriguing Date Everything and the much-anticipated ARPG Beast of Reincarnation from Pokemon developer Game Freak.
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When to Expect Resonance on Xbox Game Pass Premium
And How Long the Latest ‘Plague Tale’ Is Likely to Stay There Afterward
At launch, Resonance is available to the Ultimate-tier and PC Game Pass users, same as any other day-one arrival. Microsoft’s guarantee that first-party games reach Premium within a year does not apply to the Focus Entertainment-published title, although recent third-party additions offer some precedent. For instance, Starsand Island expanded to Game Pass Premium on August 20, roughly six months after its February debut on the higher tiers. An early-2027 Premium release for Resonance therefore looks plausible, but remains speculative.
The series’ Xbox Game Pass history also suggests Resonance could stick around for a while now that it’s here. A Plague Tale: Requiem launched into the service in mid-October 2022 and remains included nearly four years later, while the original Plague Tale: Innocence arrived in January 2020 and stayed for 32 months, until September 2022. Requiem game director Kevin Choteau later credited Microsoft’s service for helping the first entry reach a broader audience, stating Asobo Studio was “very happy that Innocence was included with Game Pass.”
- Released
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August 27, 2026
- Publisher(s)
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Focus Entertainment
