Xbox console exclusive Quantum Break is leaving Xbox Game Pass
UPDATE: Now back on Xbox and PC.
UPDATE 26/4/23: After a couple of weeks in the wilderness, Remedy Entertainment's cinematic action-adventure Quantum Break has now returned to Xbox, PC (via the Microsoft Store and Steam), and Game Pass.
It was pulled from those storefronts and services at the start of this month due to "some licenses that expired", as Xbox executive Aaron Greenberg put it at the time.
Microsoft called the situation "temporary", and so it has proven to be; Greenburg highlighted Quantum Break's return to Xbox, PC, and Game Pass today in an update shared on Twitter, adding, "Thanks for your patience as team worked to get this addressed."
UPDATE 6/4/23: The curious matter of Quantum Break's expired licensing issues continues today, with the game's (temporary) removal from storefronts.
You can no longer purchase Quantum Break on either the Microsoft Store or Steam (thanks, RPS) while these unexplained issues are resolved. The news comes after Microsoft previously admitted Quantum Break would also go missing from the Xbox Game Pass catalogue.
There's still no detail on what the issue here is, or how long Quantum Break will remain unavailable.
UPDATE 4/4/23: Quantum Break is being "temporarily removed" from Game Pass, Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg has confirmed.
In response to a question asking whether other Xbox exclusives will leave Game Pass at some point, Greenberg stated Quantum Break is being removed due to expired licenses. Once the licenses have been renewed, the game will return to Game Pass, Greenberg assured.
There's no word on when the game will disappear from the Xbox Game Pass catalogue, or for how long.
ORIGINAL STORY 3/4/23:The first set of games to leave Xbox Game Pass in April has been revealed through the Leaving soon section of the app.
Subscribers on console will lose access to Quantum Break, an Xbox exclusive title which Microsoft published, while the PC library will lose Panzer Corps 2.
Other titles leaving this month include The Long Dark, Life is Strange: True Colors and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction.
Here's all the games we know are leaving Game Pass on 16th April.
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet of Chaos
- The Long Dark
- Moonglow Bay
- Panzer Corps 2
- The Riftbreaker
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction
The date for Quantum Break's removal from Game Pass has not been confirmed yet, though it'll leave at some point in the next couple of weeks.
If you want to keep playing any of these games after 16th April you'll need to purchase them, though Game Pass subscribers get a 20 percent discount.
Meanwhile, we've got a handy guide if you want to check what's available on Game Pass.