Discord Nitro subscribers are getting a starter edition of Xbox Game Pass beginning Monday, as Xbox and Discord unveiled a new partnership that folds a slimmer version of Microsoft’s gaming service into the chat app’s paid tier. The addition gives Nitro members access to more than 50 Xbox and PC games to download and play, plus 10 hours of cloud gaming streaming every month.

The starter edition will include games such as DayZ, Deep Rock Galactic, Fallout 4, Grounded, Overcooked 2 and Stardew Valley. Discord Nitro still costs $10 a month or $100 for a year, and Discord said, “Your Nitro membership is still the same price, and Game Pass is now part of it.”

Discord Nitro is the premium version of the messaging platform, which is widely used by gamers and has been pulled deeper into both PlayStation and Xbox ecosystems in recent years. For Discord, the bundle gives its subscription a more direct gaming hook at a time when it has been pushing beyond basic chat tools and into more paid perks, including custom per-server profiles, larger file uploads and custom emojis.

The move also lands during a busy year for Xbox and Game Pass. Game Pass got cheaper in 2026, but the service also stopped adding future Call of Duty titles on launch days, and Xbox said, “Game Pass Ultimate has become too expensive for too many players,” in explaining the reset. That backdrop makes the new Discord tie-in look less like a one-off perk and more like part of a wider effort to keep players inside the ecosystem even as the subscription model changes.

The partnership comes after Discord announced a controversial age-verification plan in February and later said it would delay those changes until later in 2026. For now, the question is not whether Discord Nitro is getting more expensive — it is not — but whether the added Game Pass starter edition is enough to make the $10 monthly fee feel more compelling to users who already spend their time on the platform.