Xbox Game Pass Adds Iconic RPG as Its Second Game of April 2026

Final Fantasy 4 has formally joined the Xbox Game Pass library and is now available across most membership tiers. This is the second title to land on the subscription service in April 2026 and the 54th Xbox Game Pass addition since the beginning of the year.

Throughout the first quarter of 2026, Microsoft’s subscription service has consistently been adding Final Fantasy games, introducing one installment per month. In doing so, it cycled through the first three entries from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster collection, originally released in April 2023 to critical acclaim. The most recent of those arrivals occurred on March 3, when Final Fantasy 3 Pixel Remaster joined Xbox Game Pass.

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Its 4th Final Fantasy Game in 4 Months

The streak has now officially continued with Final Fantasy 4, which was added to Xbox Game Pass on April 7. The remaster of the 1991 JRPG can now be played across three tiers of the service: Premium, Ultimate, and PC Game Pass. It arrives as the second catalog addition of the month, debuting shortly after Barbie Horse Trails joined Xbox Game Pass on April 2.

Among fans, Final Fantasy 4 is generally regarded more highly than its three mainline predecessors. That reputation is due in no small part to the game’s influence, with the 1991 title introducing many series firsts, including the Active Time Battle system, story-driven characters in place of player-created blank slates, party rotation as a storytelling device, and a bona fide love story. Final Fantasy 4 also helped cement Nobuo Uematsu’s status as one of the leading composers in JRPGs. The game marked the first time he could work with fuller, warmer, and more orchestral sample-based sounds rather than simpler waveform-based chiptunes, made possible by the jump from the NES to the much more powerful SNES.

Upcoming Xbox Game Pass Games with Officially Confirmed Release Dates

Date	Game	Game Pass Tier(s)	Platform(s)	Notes
Apr 7	Final Fantasy 4	Ultimate, Premium, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S
Apr 14	Replaced	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
Apr 14	Hades 2	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one (Series X/S) release.
Apr 21	Vampire Crawlers	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
Apr 23	Kiln	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, Handheld, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
Apr 28	Aphelion	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
May 19	Forza Horizon 6	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
Jul 13	Ascend to Zero	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
Aug 4	Beast of Reincarnation	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.
Aug 14	Grave Seasons	Ultimate, PC	Cloud, PC, Series X/S	Day-one release.

More releases are expected to be announced later today, April 7, as part of the Wave 1 lineup for this month.

The next confirmed Xbox Game Pass release for this month is Replaced, a cyberpunk action platformer due to debut on April 14. However, a few more titles are likely to arrive beforehand, as Microsoft has yet to officially reveal the Wave 1 lineup for the month. Based on the company’s typical announcement patterns, that is likely to happen later today, April 7, around 3 p.m. ET.

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As usual, the upcoming Wave 1 roadmap should include the full list of titles set to leave the service in the middle of the month. However, a recent update to the Xbox app already appears to have revealed some, and possibly all, of those departures: Ashen, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, My Little Pony: A Zephyr Heights Mystery, Terra Invicta, and the highest-profile removal of the group, Grand Theft Auto 5.