
Anyone who owned an Xbox 360 back in the day will likely remember Xbox Live Arcade - the original home for indie releases and other small titles that were traditionally digital-only. It later transitioned into ID@Xbox for the Xbox One era.
A lot of time has obviously passed now, but considering we're just weeks away from the closure of the Xbox 360 store, we thought we'd take one final look at the "best-selling" Xbox Live Arcade games. We've highlighted the top 50 games based on the United States version of the list, although there are a couple of caveats to mention.
Firstly, this list is only made up of games that haven't yet been fully removed from the store. The likes of Uno and Battlefield 1943 would have made the lineup, but they're now gone entirely on Xbox 360. Also, Microsoft takes DLC into account, which is why you'll see Rock Band Blitz and Pinball FX2 performing better than you might expect.
If you want any of these, you've not got long to grab them - although keep in mind that many have since been ported to modern consoles, and there's also another Xbox 360 sale taking place this month (so you might want to wait!). Sadly, a fair few are no longer purchasable - in those cases their store pages still exist, but the main game has been delisted.
Right, let's take a look at the top 50 best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games as things stand:
- Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
- Rock Band Blitz (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Castle Crashers
- The Walking Dead
- Gotham City Impostors (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Happy Wars
- Family Game Night
- Pinball FX2
- Spartacus Legends (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Doritos Crash Course
- Fruit Ninja Kinect (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Terraria – Xbox 360 Edition
- Trials HD
- Magic 2013
- Trials Evolution
- State of Decay
- Plants vs. Zombies
- Toy Soldiers: Cold War
- DR2: CASE ZERO
- REAL STEEL (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Magic: The Gathering
- BattleBlock Theater
- The Walking Dead: Season Two
- Dungeon Defenders (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Worms (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Lara Croft: GoL
- Aegis Wing
- Harms Way
- LIMBO
- Portal: Still Alive
- Peggle
- Motocross Madness
- DOOM
- N+
- A World of Keflings
- Hydro Thunder
- Deadliest Warrior
- Minecraft: Story Mode
- Super Meat Boy
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels Plus (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Bankshot Billiards 2
- NBA JAM: On Fire Edition
- Alien Hominid HD
- Counter-Strike: GO
- A Kingdom for Keflings
- Street Fighter II' HF (only available through Capcom Arcade Stadium on modern Xbox consoles)
- Iron Brigade
- Bomberman LIVE (not playable on any other Xbox console)
- Deadlight
- Shoot Many Robots (not playable on any other Xbox console)
Are You Buying Anything On The Xbox 360 Store Before It Closes? (727 votes)
- Yep, I'm buying loads before it goes!
- I might get a couple of bits and pieces
- I don't know yet
- I doubt it but maybe the sales will tempt me
- Nope, I don't even use an Xbox 360 anymore!
How many of these do you own? Let us know down in the comments section below.
Comments 15
I’m gonna miss so much of this it’s unbelievable.
Weird to think that State of Decay started out as an Xbox Live Arcade release.
I'm going to be buying the Divinity game made by Larian (not the Original Sin games). I'm hoping it might get a discount before the store closes, though I doubt it.
On what date does the store close, please, @FraserG?
@Fiendish-Beaver July 29th!
Next sale is on July 16th.
I wish they’d port the Xbox 360 dash to the Series and bin the current one.
The BC games and dlc are staying live on the modern store aren't they?
Trials HD. People think it means high definition. It actually stand for hardly doable.
Such a beastly game. Dumps all over Joe danger.
I'm sure I have all the ones I cared about on my 360, but that hasn't been used in a decade+. I'd rather put money into games I can and am enjoying now personally...
@ralphdibny Yes. It's a shame Microsoft couldn't go further with the Back-compat program, but it's still a small miracle it was supported as much as it was.
I cannot emphasis how much I hate having to wait last minute for these sales. They had so much prep-time and could've done this at any point, but instead choose the last 45 or so days.
Surprised not to see Bastion or Braid on this list! Shadow Complex, Mark of the Nina and Dust: An Elysian Tail also personal favourites not featured.
@Markatron84 If memory serves correctly they had to increase the filesize limit on Arcade games due to State of Decay. I think it was max. 1GB and they increased it to 2GB
Nah, that's what xenia is for...
Ideal. Thank you, @FraserG...
Xbox Live Arcade was so cool, They should still do that today, Don’t know why but I like the way they done it and put the spotlight on indie games.
Last time I checked Gotham imposters and shoot many robots are shut down. Servers and all. Shoot many robots was taken down a long time ago
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