Yes, day one from 4 August 2026 — but Microsoft’s own announcement names Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass only, and what is included is the Standard edition, not the Deluxe content.
Yes — day one on 4 August 2026, on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, across Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld and PC. Essential and Premium are not named in the announcement, and the Deluxe content is a separate $9.99 purchase either way.
Where this is being asked · By people deciding whether to buy it at all — it is one of the most-searched things about this game, and the answer changes a $59.99 decision into a subscription someone may already hold.
Evidence
The answer, broken into claims
A grade describes sourcing, not truth. Inferred means we concluded it and the reasoning is shown; unverified means someone asserted it and nobody stands behind it.
OfficialIt is on Game Pass, day one from 4 August 2026.
Xbox Wire, 21 July 2026, confirmed by the live Xbox store listing read 5 August 2026.
OfficialThe included tiers are Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass.
The tiers Microsoft names in that post. Essential and Premium are absent from it.
OfficialGame Pass covers the Standard edition; the Deluxe content is a separate purchase.
The Xbox store listing marks Standard as the included edition and prices the Deluxe add-on separately.
InferredNothing states how long it stays in the catalogue.
No first-party source gives a window. Recorded as an absence rather than as a reassurance.
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What Microsoft actually announced
The Xbox Wire post of 21 July 2026 lists it plainly: "Beast of Reincarnation (Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – August 4", under the heading for Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, with the day-one note attached. That is the whole claim, and it is first-party. The device list matters as much as the date — Handheld and Cloud are both named, so this is not console-and-PC only.
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The tier list is the part that gets dropped
Game Pass is four tiers now, and the announcement names two of them. Essential and Premium do not appear in it, and a post that names two tiers explicitly is doing so deliberately. If you are on Essential or Premium, do not assume the entry covers you — check the catalogue on your own account before you cancel a purchase.
Named: Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass.
Not named: Essential, Premium.
Devices named: Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, PC.
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Game Pass gets you the Standard edition
The Xbox store listing marks the Standard edition as the one included with Game Pass. The Digital Deluxe Edition is a separate $69.99 product, and the Deluxe content sells on its own as a $9.99 add-on — which is the route a Game Pass subscriber would take to get the skins, the "Big Dipper" sword and the 100,000 Amber without buying the game twice.
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What this does not promise
That it stays. A subscription catalogue is a licence with an end date, and no first-party source has said how long this entry runs. Nothing here is evidence about a removal, and nothing here is a guarantee against one either.
Expiry condition
What would have to change for this answer to be wrong
An answer about a live-service game without this is an answer with a hidden expiry date.
Microsoft moves it out of the catalogue, or extends it to the Essential and Premium tiers. Both would show up on the Xbox store listing for the game before they showed up anywhere else.
Citations
Every source, with its date
A complaint posted before 30 July 2026 describes the playtest, not the game you bought, and a source whose publication date nobody captured cannot show that it postdates launch either. Both are flagged rather than quietly mixed in.
Microsoft’s own listing: "Beast of Reincarnation (Cloud, XBOX Series X|S, Handheld, and PC) – August 4", day one, under Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. Flagged pre-launch because it predates the 30 July cutoff — it is an announcement of intent, and the Xbox store listing below is what confirms it actually happened.
That the Standard edition is marked "Included with Game Pass" on the live store listing, that the Digital Deluxe Edition is $69.99 and is not, and that the store shows the release date as 8/4/2026.
Related questions
It is included at no extra cost on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. That is a subscription rather than free, and the entry has no published end date.
