The Best Xbox 360 Games to Get Before They Disappear Forever

Even though it’s edging connected 19 years old, the Xbox 360 doesn’t consciousness its age. You tin inactive plug Microsoft’s longest-lasting console into a TV, beryllium greeted with your derelict Gamerscore, and uncover each the titles you erstwhile downloaded similar a mislaid hoard of buried treasure. But successful conscionable nether 3 weeks, Microsoft plans to throw its aged Xbox 360 store unceremoniously into a shallow grave. When that happens, determination volition beryllium nary morganatic mode to entree these games unless you download them close now.

Microsoft declared it’s readying to unopen down the Xbox 360 Store connected July 29, truthful each those titles that weren’t disposable connected immoderate different level are wholly dead. Oh, the aged games and DLC you bought antecedently volition inactive work. It conscionable means that by the extremity of this month, you’ll ne'er person different accidental to bargain immoderate caller games. It’s much atrocious quality for crippled preservationists who past twelvemonth showed that 90% of games from the past respective decades are no longer commercially available. 

There’s inactive clip to download immoderate of these games, but erstwhile the store closes, you won’t get different accidental without immoderate emulation. Last year, the Video Games Chronicle noted that 220 integer games don’t person immoderate backward compatibility with Xbox One and don’t person carnal copies. These are mostly Xbox Arcade titles from Microsoft’s days promoting indie developers connected its mainline console. Some of them besides received updated versions that were disposable connected aboriginal consoles. There are conscionable nether 50 games disposable lone done the 360 stores, which volition slice distant since nary updated mentation was released, arsenic gathered by the DelistedGames blog (via HowtoGeek). 

Those downloadable-only titles are not the worldly astir nostalgic gamers would instantly recognize. Two Xbox Arcade South Park games, including the co-op sidescroller Tenorman’s Revenge, volition vanish from this mortal coil. Another tiny rubric with a large name, Burnout Crash, volition spell the mode of the Dodo successful 20 days.

When Xbox wanted to beforehand its question controls with the Xbox Kinect, it promoted respective digital-only titles successful its store. In galore ways, that peripheral was up of its time, but the games volition inactive die. There’s Fruit Ninja Kinect and Haunt. Kinect Fun Labs and Kinect Sports Gems volition footwear it arsenic well.

What Games are Hard to Get Anywhere but the Xbox 360?

Microsoft has ported a slew of Xbox 360 titles onto Xbox Game Pass for those who privation a reminder of what the precocious 2000s felt like. And yet, truthful galore much games haven’t made the leap anyplace else. Some hard-to-find games are inactive playable from the Xbox One, but the extremity of the 360 Store limits their reach. Capcom removed the 2010 rubric Dark Void from Steam, and present you tin lone get it connected disc oregon done Xbox. The remastered mentation of Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker is disposable connected the Xbox 360 store for now, and it’s astir apt 1 of the fewer ways extracurricular of emulation to play the PSP classic.

Looking done the catalog reminds maine conscionable however manic the Xbox 360 epoch was. You tin get Call of Juarez Bound successful Blood connected PC, but it was 1 of those games centered astir 2 Confederate deserters during the Civil War who returned location to their household location arsenic it was being looted by Union soldiers. You tin play it connected PC, but the multiplayer has been defunct since 2016.

The 2008 buddy worker crippled Army of Two ne'er got disconnected the Xbox 360 oregon PlayStation 3. If you were looking for a reminder, the game’s communicative starts with 9/11, and past suddenly, you and a person are murdering radical successful Afghanistan arsenic backstage subject contractors. It was so a antithetic time. That crippled is so connected Game Pass, but the 2 sequels, The 40th Day and The Devil’s Cartel, are lone disposable successful disc signifier connected Xbox 360 oregon PS3. The 2009 rubric The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault connected Dark Athena suffers a akin destiny of being alternatively hard to find owed to licensing issues.

Additionally, starting July 29, Xbox 360 players volition nary longer person entree to the Movies and TV app, meaning immoderate contented you purchased connected your age-old console volition nary longer work. It’s different rousing gong that should punctual radical you don’t ain thing you bargain digitally. Nintendo closed its Wii U and 3DS eShop earlier this twelvemonth with akin results arsenic Microsoft.