Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass: Is It on Game Pass?

Short answer first: as of August 18, 2026, the Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass status is a clean no — the game is not included with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, or any other tier. That is not inference or rumor-reading; it comes straight from Microsoft's own store data, which we re-check every time this page is updated. Below you will find the evidence, a two-minute method to verify the Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass listing yourself, the cheapest official ways to play today, and what the first game's subscription history does — and does not — tell us. If you only have thirty seconds, the status card above and the verification steps below are the parts to read.

Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass status: the evidence

The Xbox store page for the standard edition (product ID 9NS9TJV1JL86) embeds its own data blob, readable in the page source as window.__PRELOADED_STATE__. In that data, every Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass field tells the same story: includedWithPassesProductIds is an empty array and the pass-metadata map is an empty object — for the standard edition, the Devout Edition, the pre-order listing, and even the bonus-skin item. When we checked on August 18, 2026, not one SKU was attached to a subscription. This is the same data the store itself renders from, so it cannot lag behind a cosmetic page change.

The same store data helpfully lists the subscription catalog for context — Game Pass Essential, Premium, Ultimate, and PC Game Pass — and Mortal Shell II attaches to none of them. On the rendered page, the practical translation is simple: there is no "Included with Game Pass" badge anywhere on the listing. Games in the catalog carry that badge prominently; this one has never had it.

The commercial picture matches. Mortal Shell II is buy-to-play at $49.99 for the standard edition and $59.99 for the Devout Edition, and no day-one subscription announcement exists. A mid-July status report on the launch noted that no fresh official announcement had been published in the preceding 48 hours, and nothing has surfaced since — no major outlet has reported an inclusion, which is itself consistent with what the store data shows.

It is worth being precise about what "not on Game Pass" covers, because the branding is confusing in 2026. The store's own subscription catalog lists Game Pass Essential, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Ultimate, and PC Game Pass as the active products. Mortal Shell II is absent from all four. There is no tier, trial, or perk that unlocks the full game; the purchase price is the only way in, and the only discount-relevant field on the listing reads zero. If a subscription option existed, the store would be advertising it — that badge is a sales tool, not a secret.

Check the official listing yourself

You do not have to take our word for it. The whole verification takes about two minutes:

If any of those three signals flips, the game has joined the service and this page will be updated promptly with a fresh verification date at the top. Until then, the verified answer stands. One caution on method: do not rely on third-party "upcoming Game Pass games" lists for this title. Those roundups aggregate rumor and wishful thinking, and for this game they have nothing official to aggregate — the store page is the ground truth.

The cheapest ways to play right now

Not being on the service does not mean paying full price is your only door in. Anyone searching for Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass free access should know the honest free option: the official open beta, which costs nothing on every launch platform.

The beta is live on all three launch platforms — the Xbox store (product ID 9N1NPQRFBGTX, free since July 31), Steam (appid 4711740), and the PlayStation Store as a free entry. It covers the opening hours of the game — the Steam description says the opening three hours — includes the Flayed Harbinger bonus and a skip-prologue option, and select progress carries forward into the full release. GamingBolt's pre-launch coverage described it as a meaningful taster of what is coming — that was the PC beta, and the console builds followed at the end of July.

If you want the full game immediately at launch, the standard edition is $49.99 with an August 20, 13:00 UTC unlock; the $59.99 Devout Edition started its up-to-72-hours Advanced Access on August 17, so its buyers are already playing as of this verification. Neither edition requires any subscription — just the purchase. Between the beta and Advanced Access, the "free with a subscription" route is genuinely the only door that does not exist this week, and everything else about getting in is already settled.

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The first game's Game Pass history

There is a real track record here, and it is worth stating precisely — as history, not forecast:

Date	Event
November 23, 2021	The original Mortal Shell joins Xbox Game Pass on Cloud, Console, and PC
November 2022	The game leaves the catalog
January 5, 2023	Mortal Shell: Enhanced Edition rejoins the service
January 10, 2023	Xbox Wire's January Wave 1 post lists the Enhanced Edition under "In Case You Missed It"

The original launched in 2020 and first reached the service roughly 15 months later — it was not a day-one inclusion either, and its arrival was covered as one of ten additions in that month's second wave. When it left a year later and returned as the Enhanced Edition in January 2023, the official Xbox Wire announcement slotted it into the "In Case You Missed It" section rather than the headline wave — a returning favorite, not a new get.

Two honest readings follow. On one hand, the publisher clearly is not allergic to subscriptions; the first game came, went, and came back within about fourteen months. On the other, the pattern was a post-launch arrival measured in seasons, not weeks. This history is why the Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass question has a documented precedent behind it — but precedent is all it is, and we will not stretch it into a date prediction for the sequel.

Will Mortal Shell 2 come to Game Pass?

Nobody outside Microsoft and Playstack knows, and neither has said. As of August 18, 2026 there is no announcement, no store badge, and no pass inclusion in the data — full stop. What we can tell you is where a change would surface first: an "Included with Game Pass" badge on the store listing, or an entry in an official Xbox Wire monthly wave. Both are linked in the sources below, and both are what we monitor when re-verifying this page. The Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass situation could change with any monthly wave, and if it does, the badge and the data will move before any rumor does. Until one of them moves, every "confirmed for Game Pass" claim you see is fabrication.

The bottom line

The Mortal Shell 2 Game Pass answer today is no, backed by Microsoft's own store data rather than guesswork. The smart play: download the free open beta tonight on your platform of choice, decide if the combat clicks, and buy the $49.99 standard edition if it does — the global unlock is August 20 at 13:00 UTC. Waiting on a subscription announcement instead is a bet with no published odds; the first game's fifteen-month path is context, not a promise. For platform specifics see the Xbox page, for edition math the price guide, for beta details the beta guide, and for unlock timing by region the release date guide.