Is Stage Tour on Game Pass or PS Plus? Pre-Order Prices and Discounts

Stage Tour is not included in Game Pass or any PlayStation Plus tier when it launches on December 10, 2026. Both stores sell it outright at $39.99, and the only subscription perk on offer is a 10% discount for PS Plus members on PlayStation, which drops the price to $35.99. Nobody gets the game free through a subscription.

Game Pass is Microsoft’s paid game subscription, and PlayStation Plus (PS Plus) is Sony’s. Stage Tour appears in neither catalogue on day one.

• PlayStation 5: the PlayStation Store listing shows $39.99 with “Save 10% with PlayStation Plus” underneath, so members pay $35.99 and everyone else pays the full $39.99.
• Xbox Series X|S: the Xbox Store listing shows an MSRP of $39.99 and a $35.99 pre-order price for everyone, with no Game Pass inclusion and no Game Pass member price on the product record.
• PC: Steam lists the same drop from $39.99 to $35.99 on the pre-order, so no subscription is needed to get the cheaper price.
• No tier includes the game. There is no “Included with Game Pass” button on the Xbox page and no Extra or Premium badge on the PlayStation page. The game is sold, not lent.

Prices and subscription offers

RedOctane’s own FAQ lists PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 as the launch platforms. Digital pre-orders are open on Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and the Epic Games Store, so treat $39.99 as the reference price for PC. We have not verified an Epic price and are not quoting one.

What PS Plus actually gives you

On PlayStation, the discount is the whole subscription story. The store’s price block labels the offer “Save 10% with PlayStation Plus” and puts $35.99 against a $39.99 base price. The same 10% shows up in the UK listing at £34.99 down to £31.49 and in the Japan listing at ¥5,170 down to ¥4,653. Nothing else changes for members. The listing carries no “Included with PS Plus” label and no Extra or Premium tier tag, so Stage Tour is a purchase, not a loan, and a subscription will not get you into it for free.

Timing matters more here than the tier does. PlayStation’s member price runs out at 05:00 UTC on December 10, the same moment the console version unlocks at midnight Eastern. If you want the $35.99 price on PlayStation, the purchase has to happen before that.

What Game Pass actually gives you

Nothing today, and nothing announced. Microsoft’s product record for Stage Tour carries a $39.99 MSRP and a $35.99 pre-order price. The store page shows no Game Pass inclusion: there is no “Included with Game Pass” button and no Game Pass member price. The pre-order SKU carries no Games with Gold flag. That product record was last updated on October 26, 2026, close to launch, and it still shows a paid price.

Launch is when these calls get made, and Microsoft regularly changes Game Pass line-ups in the days before a release, so the honest answer is that nobody has said either way. We checked the listing on November 10, 2026, and we will update this page if it changes.

When the $35.99 deadlines land

The unlock times come from our Stage Tour release time guide, which works out the twelve-hour gap between the PlayStation and PC launches.

Which platform should you buy on

• You play on PlayStation and already pay for PS Plus: pre-order digitally on the PlayStation Store. You get the $35.99 price, and the PS5 Game + Hardware bundles include a disc of the game.
• You play on PC: Steam and Epic both take pre-orders, and $35.99 is open to everyone, not only subscribers. PC also has the widest legacy controller support, which our crossplay and controllers guide covers.
• You play on Xbox: the same $35.99, with no Game Pass angle to wait for.
• Not a subscriber at all? Consider Steam or Xbox, where $35.99 is the same price for everyone.
• You want a physical copy: every PS5 game and hardware bundle includes a disc, so it needs a PS5 with a disc drive. RedOctane sells hardware-only bundles for digital PS5 and PS5 Pro owners, who then buy the game separately. Bundle prices and shipping windows are in our Stage Tour hardware guide.

Is Stage Tour on Game Pass at launch?

No. Nothing on Microsoft’s store listing includes it in Game Pass, and no announcement has been made. If Microsoft flips the listing before December 10, this page changes.

Does PS Plus Extra include Stage Tour?

No. The PlayStation Store sells Stage Tour as a $39.99 game with a 10% member discount on the pre-order. It is not in the Extra or Premium catalogues.

Before launch night

Our system requirements guide has the 20 GB install and the minimum spec, and the Stage Tour hub collects the dates, prices and hardware in one place. RedOctane’s community update says new gameplay features arrive as free updates, with four major expansion events planned a year and individual songs sold separately.

We analyzed the price and deadline fields on the PlayStation Store listing, the Xbox product record and the Steam price block. The detail nobody mentions is that every published deadline for the $35.99 price lands before you can play on that platform. PlayStation’s member price dies at 05:00 UTC on December 10, exactly when the console version unlocks, so a PS Plus member cannot wait for launch-day reaction before buying. Xbox’s $35.99 runs until 15:59:59 UTC that day, about an hour before PC players get in, and Steam publishes no end date at all even though the PC build unlocks at 17:00 UTC. The strange part is that the subscription pitch is worth nothing beyond that discount. The same $35.99 is open to every pre-order customer on Steam and on Xbox, and the PlayStation member price only exists because Sony gates its discounts behind a membership. If you are not already paying for PS Plus, buying a subscription to save four dollars on one pre-order is a bad trade. If you already pay for it, you could have had the same $35.99 on Steam.

Edited by Kerwin Stewart, Editor-in-Chief · How we report