Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, High on Life 2, and Kingdom Come Deliverance Lead Xbox Game Pass February 2026 Wave 1 Lineup
Xbox has revealed the first February 2026 Wave 1 lineup for Xbox Game Pass, and this batch is built around a solid mix of major catalog additions plus a notable new release arriving directly into the service. The announcement is live on Xbox Wire, and the headline trio is easy to spot: Avatar Frontiers of Pandora, High on Life 2, and Kingdom Come Deliverance.
From a value proposition standpoint, High on Life 2 is the big momentum driver because it is the fresh content drop that can move the engagement needle immediately for subscribers who want something new to jump into right now. Meanwhile, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora and Kingdom Come Deliverance bring recognized brand power and backlog appeal, giving players a strong excuse to revisit or finally check out games that may have been sitting on their wishlist.
This wave also reinforces the tier reality of the service. Several additions are targeted at higher tiers, including Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass, and Premium. As with previous drops, this update does not meaningfully expand the library for Essential tier subscribers, which continues to shape how different segments of the Xbox audience experience the platform. If you are tracking the broader strategy, this is Xbox continuing to concentrate the strongest content value in the upper tiers, especially where cloud and day to day discovery habits are most active.
Beyond the top billing, February’s Wave 1 list includes 2 Game Preview entries that lean into very different player fantasies. Roadside Research pitches a quirky gas station management loop where you play as aliens studying humans, and Starsand Island targets the life and farming simulation audience that is thriving across PC and console. This is smart portfolio design: 1 wave can serve action and story players, but it can also capture the cozy and systems driven crowd that tends to spend long sessions in progression focused sims.
There is also a sports rotation move here. Madden NFL 26 joins the service and effectively replaces Madden NFL 24, with Madden NFL 24 listed as the only game leaving the service in this update. For many subscribers, that swap is the practical way Game Pass stays current in annualized franchises, keeping the sports lane active without requiring a separate purchase every year.
One more item worth watching is the February 13, 2026 timing for Kingdom Come Deliverance. With recent chatter around a current gen version, its Game Pass arrival date could align with a broader release beat, even though nothing is confirmed in this announcement. If that lines up, it becomes a clean narrative for Xbox: add a refreshed version into the subscription at the exact moment attention is highest.
Below is the full Wave 1 list as announced by Xbox.
Which 1 are you actually installing first, High on Life 2 for the new release energy, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora for the open world spectacle, or Kingdom Come Deliverance for the hardcore RPG immersion?
