10 Great Games That Have Been Added To Xbox Play Anywhere In 2024

I'm still annoyed that some major games aren't part of it.

Master Chief Collection, Minecraft Dungeons — why are these not part of it? Even if you want to make the argument for MCC, okay, but why not Minecraft Dungeons? Or Legends? There's cross-progression so they obviously thought it out, but it's... just not there?

If Phil wants more games in Play Anywhere, he should start by actually putting all of his games in it.

(And I'm a huge fan of play anywhere, I love it. I'm just frustrated by these choices. I have made some purchases on Xbox over Steam SOLELY for Play Anywhere, and even double dipped on certain games like Back 4 Blood.)

Just the article I was waiting for! Thank you, @FraserG!

The Play Anywhere program is one of the main reasons I'm sticking with Xbox this gen - my main consoles are now my XSX and my ROG Ally. It is a shame that MS isn't adding many games to his program. I guess it is difficult to convince publishers to sell only one license to play on PC and Console (some even sell the same game both on the Windows Store and the Xbox Store - like 505 Games with Control, without cloud saves).

@Elbow I totally get you - I was planning to buy Persona 5 Royal on Steam, but I saw this game is on the program, so I bought it on the Xbox Store - and it's really great to have the ability to play between console and a handheld PC (Sega seems to be very supportive of Play Anywhere). And yeah, it is totally bonkers that some XGS aren't on this program.

Also Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance!

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster is Play Anywhere? That’s good.

This is one of the reasons I hope the rumors about a Windows handheld are true. I could take more advantage of those games I have on PC thanks to Play Anywhere. Plus PC Game Pass, that I don't use almost at all in my GPU suscription. (I don't have a decent PC).

You can see the full PA list in TrueAchivements.

@Marxally For some reason, it doesn't show the Play Anywhere feature on my Xbox Store page, but it does say playable on PC, so I guess it's on the program!

Maybe because any interest in cloud gaming is 1 out of 500 at best?

Data caps and poor internet infrastructure make the experience incredibly poor one at best.

@GuyinPA75 Play Anywhere is a program where you receive both Xbox and Windows versions of a game buying just one licence.

Nothing to do with cloud gaming.

This was one of the reasons for picking up my ROG Ally X a few weeks ago... that some of my purchases can be played cross platform and I'm much more of a handheld gamer these days.

I've mostly been playing Switch, but with the ROG, I can play a much more expensive library portable without having to rebuild some of them.

I also mainly game with the rog ally x and the xbox. I wish this was advertised. I bought shin megami tensei v vengeance digitally precisely for this reason, even though at the time it was substantially cheaper to pick up a physical copy.

It's excellent, it's basically buy one get one free.

I believe actually some games are cross-buy between Xbox console and Windows without actually being Xbox Play Anywhere. XPA requires cross-buy plus the ability to share save states and achievements between your console and Windows versions of the game. (I care much more about the cross-buy part, so understood that is the focus of the article.)

The implementation of XPA remains somewhat glitchy. About a third of the games in the program don’t actually show up in the Windows Xbox app (though you can download them just fine from the Windows Store app and on console), and several (such as the recent Tomb Raider remastered bundle, Inspector Gadget Mad Time Party, and Tiny Pixels Nimpo Blast) are or were advertised as XPA and then turned out not to be.

@nomenclaturist you are sharing a very valuable information. Is it there a way to see a full list of cross-buy titles?

I figure LAD Infinite Wealth will show up on Gamepass, Yakuza games have been very consistent about showing up there.

@fbnaulin Not that I have been able to figure out. But every now and then, when there’s a sale at the Xbox.com online store, I come across a title that is listed as playable on both console and PC, and I’m much more likely to buy those. Sometimes they are XPA and sometimes they are not, but the difference is only save states and achievements, so I don’t feel too strongly about that.

Even the official list of XPA games on the web site has random omissions of games that are tagged as XPA on their store page. It’s really a shame that MS does not manage the cross-buy titles better. I think it would be a big draw for both their platforms.

Then there's some games like FFXV that aren't xpa, aren't cross buy, but are still cross save.

It's all so messy.

@HarmanSmith Not wholly related to the subject of this thread but I need to properly finish Killer7 soon. I replay No More Heroes pretty frequently but am slacking on Killer7, and even the second Silver Case.

While it’s always nice to have more Play Anywhere titles, doesn’t this relatively small list highlight the very real problem that the vast majority of third party developers are still boycotting Play Anywhere? If Microsoft wants to transition to PC only in future as rumoured then this issue urgently needs to be resolved because if people can’t play their Xbox library on the next ‘console’ (rumoured to actually just be a PC in disguise) then that’s going to be a complete disaster.

It seems XPA is mostly recent in-house titles, indies that take Game Pass development money, and maybe the occasional flyer from a big developer like Sega (but unfortunately not all their games).

@Elbow I play Killer7 very often, and I got the Silver Case games (I think there are two) on the backlog. I love the No More Heroes saga (and glad 3 is on Game Pass), but I have not finished Travis Strikes Again for whatever reason.

@HarmanSmith TSA feels like a funky low budget game, which is fair since it is. As cool as it is it's also a very drab game where you go from poorly-textured boxy rooms to fight in other poorly-textured boxy rooms for 8 hours.