More than 220 digital Xbox 360 games will no longer be available for purchase when Microsoft closes the Xbox 360 Store next year, VGC analysis shows.
Although users will still be able to redownload their previous purchases for the foreseeable future,Microsofthas announced that after July 28, 2025,it will no longer be possible to buy any more gamesor DLC from theXbox 360Store.
This specifically means players won’t be able to buy content directly through the Xbox 360 console or from theXbox 360 Marketplace site.
While many of these games will still be playable via other means, around 220 of them will essentially disappear forever.
There are currently nearly 500 games in the ‘Games on Demand’ section of the Xbox 360 Store. This section deals with games which also have physical releases.
While these will all disappear when the Xbox 360 Store closes, some of them will still be available to purchase digitally on theXbox OneandXbox Series X/Sstores, if they’re part ofXbox‘sbackwards compatible games library.
For those not backwards compatible, it will of course still be possible to play these games by acquiring and using the disc versions. For now, then, none of these titles can truly be considered ‘lost’ – players will simply lose one way of playing them.
It’s the digital-only games in the store’s Xbox Live Arcade section that more are at risk of disappearing, since there’s no physical alternative.
Again, some of these will still be available for purchase on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S if they’re backwards compatible on those systems. Not all of them are, however.
Of the 619 titles currently listed in the Arcade section (in North America), only some are backwards compatible, and others have already been delisted but remain visible on the store for various reasons (some left behind free demos, for example).
After taking backwards compatible and previously delisted games out of the equation, VGC has determined that around 220 digital-only games will essentially ‘disappear’ from commerce and will no longer be available to buy again.
There are those who will consider some titles less of a loss than others – various titles on our list are available on other systems, or received ‘better’ versions on later generations of hardware (such as Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons and Life is Strange, all of which have separate Xbox One versions).
It could be argued, however, that game preservation isn’t a selective process, and that every version of a game is of equal importance in that game’s history.
The full list of digital-only Xbox 360 games set to disappear on June 03, 2025 is as follows:
Note: a small number of these games may be available in physical compilations. Three of the Worms titles, for example, were released on disc as Worms Collection. This list only focuses on individual digital releases.
