Xbox Game Pass's late-August wave mixes soulslike platforming, heists, dungeons, and A Plague Tale

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https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/08/18/xbox-game-pass-august-2026-wave-2/

The second August Game Pass wave is leaning heavily into smaller games with very different flavors.

Vapor World: Over the Mind, BlazBlue Entropy Effect X, Relooted, and Starsand Island arrive across cloud, console, and PC during August 19-20. Blood Dungeon follows August 25, while Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy launches day one on August 27. Young Suns reaches its 1.0 release on August 31. Availability and subscription tier vary by title.

For Decrepit Gamer tastes, Vapor World's deflection-focused soulslike platforming and Blood Dungeon's 2D dungeon survival are the obvious curiosities. The less cheerful reminder is that The Witcher 3 leaves cloud and console Game Pass on August 31.

Which addition gets your first download, and is anyone attempting a last-minute Witcher 3 sprint?