Forget the long Wave 2 spreadsheet for a second. The story for Xbox owners this week is the immediate calendar: five Pass moves across four days, headlined by Dune: Awakening finally reaching console.
Pure Xbox and Xbox Wire’s Next Week roundup (September 21–25) line up three day-one-style arrivals plus two tier expansions. Here is the short playlist you actually need for the next few evenings.
September 22 — Dune and Well Dweller
Dune: Awakening (Funcom) lands on Series X|S, PC, and Cloud for Ultimate, Premium, and PC Game Pass. The open-world Arrakis survival RPG has lived on PC since last year; this is the console debut—and the week’s biggest habit magnet for Ultimate homes that have been waiting to build bases and dodge sandworms on the big screen.
Same day, Well Dweller arrives day-one for Ultimate and PC Game Pass (console, PC, Cloud). The dark fairy-tale metroidvania from Top Hat Studios—creators of Crypt Custodian, Sheepo, and Islets—casts you as Glimmer, a tiny bird with a matchstick on a queen-burning quest. Early aggregator chatter has been loud; treat review scores as living data, but the day-one Pass placement is locked.
September 23 — Mad King Redemption
Mad King Redemption joins Ultimate, Premium, and PC Game Pass as a pixel-styled 2.5D beat ’em up with roguelite progression. It is the midweek palate cleanser between Dune’s sandworm scale and the Friday CoD move—short runs, corrupted enemies, and a king who needs his sanity back.
September 25 — Black Ops 6 to Premium (plus Rematch Essential)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 expands onto Xbox Game Pass Premium for the first time (already available on Ultimate and PC). Rematch, the online 5v5 football multiplayer title, also joins Essential the same day—giving lower-tier subscribers a Friday reason to open the app.
Why this week’s framing matters
Microsoft already published the broader September Wave 2 list earlier this month, including later day-ones like Minecraft Dungeons II and Gears of War: E-Day. What matters now is the next-few-days density: a franchise-scale survival debut on console, a day-one indie metroidvania, a midweek roguelite brawler, and a CoD tier unlock before the weekend. That is how Pass keeps the “what’s new tonight?” reflex alive without waiting for October’s bigger first-party dates.