Battlefield 6 Storms Onto Game Pass as Valor Mortis and Deep Dish Dungeon Launch Day One

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026

Tuesday was one of those days that makes a Game Pass subscription feel like a cheat code. Five Xbox games launched on October 13, and the headliner was a blockbuster: Battlefield 6 joined Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, playable on Xbox Series X|S, PC and cloud, as Pure Xbox reported. Alongside it came two genuine day-one releases — the first-person soulslike Valor Mortis and the dungeon crawler Deep Dish Dungeon — turning an ordinary Tuesday in the middle of October into one of the service's strongest single days of the fall.

Start with the big gun. Battlefield 6 is EA's flagship shooter, built around all-out warfare: large-scale infantry combat, aerial dogfights and the kind of destructible environments the series is famous for, with fights that can tear through the scenery as readily as through the other team. Pure Xbox's report highlighted the game's Kinesthetic Combat System, the movement-and-gunplay framework EA built this entry around, and noted the full package is available to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass members across Series X|S, PC and cloud streaming. For subscribers, that is a full-priced marquee release arriving in the library on a Tuesday — the exact scenario Microsoft's service was designed to produce, and a loud answer to anyone wondering whether Game Pass still lands the biggest games in the business.

The more interesting experiment of the day, though, might be Valor Mortis, which launched day one on Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass for Series X|S, PC and cloud. It is a first-person soulslike with a hook that sounds like a dare: you served under Napoleon, you died for Napoleon, and you have been raised from the dead with supernatural powers to fight your way through horrors unleashed during a plague. Pure Xbox reported that the combat is built on the soulslike grammar players know — parries, dashes and punishing finishers — translated into first person, which is a genuinely different feel from the third-person swordplay the genre usually offers. Early reviews are mixed, with a Metacritic score of 77 per Pure Xbox's report: the kind of number that suggests a game with real ideas and real friction, which is to say, exactly the kind of game a subscription service exists for. Trying a 77 on Game Pass costs you an evening. Buying one at full price costs you a decision.

Rounding out the day-one pair, Deep Dish Dungeon arrived for Series X|S, PC and cloud as a dungeon crawler and exploration game that, per Pure Xbox, rewards curiosity and resourcefulness above brute force. It is the smaller, stranger release of the three — the kind of title that would get buried in a storefront list but can find its audience when millions of subscribers can wander into it for nothing extra. Taken together, the trio is a neat snapshot of the modern Game Pass formula: one giant shooter to headline the marketing, one mid-budget genre experiment with a wild premise, and one indie-flavored crawler for the explorers.

Tuesday also lands in the middle of a stacked October for the service. Pure Xbox's running coverage of the month notes that Keeper (October 2), Gears of War: E-Day (October 6), and Echo Weaver, Forever Ago and Neon Abyss 2 (October 8) have already arrived — and that eight games left the service in early October, the usual rotation making room for the new. Still ahead: Bluey's Happy Snaps and Chained Beasts on October 15, Beyond These Stars on October 16, The Seance of Blake Manor on October 27, and Terrible Lizards on October 29. That is a month with a tentpole shooter, a Gears release, family games, horror for Halloween week and a Napoleonic soulslike, all inside one subscription — a range no single purchase budget would ever justify.

The practical advice for subscribers is simple sequencing. Battlefield 6 is the download tonight if shooters are your thing, and it is the cloud-friendly option if storage is tight. Valor Mortis is the weekend project — the game you sample because it is there, knowing a first-person soulslike will either click in the first hour or bounce off entirely. Deep Dish Dungeon is the palate cleanser between the two. And if your backlog is already groaning, October's remaining arrivals mean the library is not slowing down to let you catch up. It never does. For more on the month's full lineup, see our October Game Pass wave coverage, dig into the Previously games section, and keep an eye on the newsroom and sports as a busy month rolls on.

A few practical notes for subscribers sorting out the week. All three of Tuesday's headliners stream through the cloud on Game Pass Ultimate, which matters for a shooter the size of Battlefield 6: you can be playing while the full install finishes, or skip the storage math entirely on a Series S. Valor Mortis and Deep Dish Dungeon are both single-player, pause-friendly games — the two easiest kinds of titles to sample in short sessions before deciding whether they earn a permanent spot in the rotation. And with Bluey's Happy Snaps and Chained Beasts landing Thursday and Beyond These Stars on Friday, the smart move is to clear the decks now: finish or formally abandon whatever early-October departure you were halfway through, because this service does not believe in quiet weeks, and October is shaping up as one of its loudest months of the year.