{"id":832781,"date":"2026-11-13T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/832781\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:30:10","slug":"here-are-the-25-original-xbox-games-you-can-now-play-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/832781\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the 25 original Xbox games you can now play on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/969117\/microsoft-xbox-games-pc-backward-compatibility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with just four Xbox games<\/a>, so 25 is progress, and Microsoft says all these games are now playable with keyboard and mouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Plus, Microsoft says it\u2019s adding achievements to original Xbox games for the first time, starting with four games: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, and Conker: Live and Reloaded. You can unlock achievements playing them on Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles as well, after a system update. More games should get them in future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Here\u2019s the full list of Xbox on PC games, with the 21 new additions in bold:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Yes, that\u2019s a lot of Star Wars games, most of which already have a PC version, and few games that were exclusive to Xbox at the time. (But many of those Star Wars games were excellent.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">You also won\u2019t be able to use an original Xbox disc to play these games, I\u2019m afraid, as original Xbox (and Xbox 360) discs aren\u2019t part of Microsoft\u2019s disc-to-digital program; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/996826\/microsoft-xbox-disc-to-digital-history-notepad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they predate the unique serial number<\/a> that Microsoft embedded into Xbox One discs. In case you\u2019re wondering, Xbox on PC backward compatibility <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/970586\/are-xbox-360-games-coming-to-pc-next\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appears to be powered by an emulator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Also, most of the new games aren\u2019t currently included with Xbox Game Pass, according to Microsoft; just Blinx, Conker, Crimson Skies, Fusion Frenzy, Morrowind, and Grabbed by the Ghoulies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July, Microsoft originally launched the idea with just four Xbox games, so 25 is progress, and Microsoft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[205,59,696,50,227,86,56,54,55,183],"class_list":["post-832781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-gb","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}