Xbox Game Pass Adds Gloomy Co-Op Adventure with ‘Very Positive’ Reviews

Pit of Goblin is now available on Xbox Game Pass, having joined three of its membership tiers. The friendslop title marks the second addition to Microsoft’s subscription service in November 2026 and the 165th Xbox Game Pass release this year.

Pit of Goblin is a co-op horror adventure that, while new to Xbox Game Pass, has been available for nearly two years. Swedish developer Friendly Foe originally released it in December 2024 as an early access title on Steam, where it has since earned a “Very Positive” user rating, based on nearly 1,000 player reviews. The four-person studio said in September 2026 that Pit of Goblin had sold more than 200,000 copies during its early access period.

Pit of Goblin Leaves Early Access as it Enters Xbox Game Pass Catalog

November 3 also marks the end of that early access period, with Pit of Goblin reaching version 1.0 alongside its Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 debuts. As previously promised, the spooky co-op adventure has also joined the Xbox Game Pass library on day one. Pit of Goblin is available to Premium- and Ultimate-tier subscribers, as well as PC Game Pass users. It supports full-fledged cross-platform multiplayer, allowing console and PC players to team up. As with most Series X/S titles, Friendly Foe’s debut release is also streamable via the Xbox Cloud Gaming service, whose entire infrastructure is built on custom Series X units.

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What Exactly Is ‘Pit of Goblin?’

At its core, Pit of Goblin revolves around repeated expeditions into randomly generated dungeons in search of food and valuables. Food can be consumed for benefits or brought back to the Goblin King-Queen, whose demands increase with each successful feeding, while valuables can be sold to upgrade the players’ equipment. Monsters and traps complicate these expeditions, as do deliberately chaotic co-op mechanics such as proximity voice chat, friendly fire, and physics-driven interactions that allow players to throw certain objects or use them as distractions.

The 1.0 update also substantially expands what players can encounter during these runs. Its additions include two new biomes, The Undergrowth and The Great Library, along with Magic Books that introduce different magical abilities to the existing gameplay loop. The scale of the update follows an extensive technical overhaul, with Friendly Foe saying in June 2026 that it had rewritten “almost all” of Pit of Goblin‘s code while preparing the game for its 1.0 release and console ports.

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Pit of Goblin is the final catalog addition before the full Xbox Game Pass Wave 1 lineup for November 2026 is officially announced. That is expected to happen later today, November 3.