Play These Xbox 360 Games on Xbox One
Of course, this list is subject to change. To see an up-to-the-minute list or to look for a game not yet listed here, check out Microsoft’s list of backward-compatible games; the company updates the list frequently. Eurogamer also maintains a current list, conveniently organized by date.
A Kingdom for Keflings A World of Keflings Aegis Wing Age of Booty Alan Wake Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Alice: Madness Returns Alien Hominid HD Altered Beast Anomaly Warzone Earth Aqua ARKANOID Live! Army of Two Assassin’s Creed Assassin’s Creed II Assassin’s Creed III Assassin’s Creed® IV Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood Assassin’s Creed® Liberation HD Assassin’s Creed Revelations Assassin’s Creed® Rogue Assault Heroes 2 Asteroids & Deluxe Astropop Axel & Pixel Babel Rising Band of Bugs Banjo Kazooie Banjo Kazooie®: Nuts & Bolts Banjo Tooie Batman: Arkham Origins BattleBlock Theater Battlefield 3™ Battlefield 1943™ Battlefield Bad Co. Battlefield Bad Co. 2 Battlestations: Midway BAYONETTA Beat’n Groovy Bejeweled 2 Bejeweled 3 Bellator: MMA Onslaught Beyond Good & Evil HD Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Bioshock Bioshock 2 Bioshock Infinite BLACK™ Blazing Angels Blinx: The Time Sweeper Blood Knights Blood of the Werewolf Bloodforge BloodRayne 2 BloodRayne: Betrayal Blue Dragon Bomberman Battlefest Boom Boom Rocket Borderlands Borderlands 2 Bound by Flame Braid Brain Challenge™ Brave: The Video Game Breakdown Bullet Soul Bullet Soul -Infinite Burst- Bully: Scholarship Ed Burnout Paradise Burnout Revenge Cabela’s Alaskan Adventures Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013 Cabela’s Hunting Expeditions Cabela’s Survival: SoK Call of Duty® 2 Call of Duty® 3 Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® Call of Duty®: Black Ops Call of Duty®: Black Ops II Call of Duty®: Ghosts Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 Call of Duty®: World at War Call of Juarez® Gunslinger CAPCOM ARCADE CABINET Carcassonne Cars: Mater-National Cars 2: The Video Game Castle Crashers Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse Castlestorm Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Catherine Centipede & Millipede Child of Eden Civilization Revolution COD: Advanced Warfare Comic Jumper Comix Zone Commanders: Attack Condemned Conker: Live & Reloaded Contra Costume Quest 2 Counter-Strike: GO Crackdown Crazy Taxi Crimson Skies®: High Road to Revenge™ CRYSTAL DEFENDERS™ Crystal Quest D&D: Chronicles of Mystara Dante’s Inferno™ Dark Souls Dark Void Darksiders Darksiders II DAYTONA USA de Blob 2 Dead Rising 2: Case West Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Dead Space™ Dead Space™ 2 Dead Space™ 3 Dead Space™ Ignition Dead to Rights Deadfall Adventures Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior: Legends Deadly Premonition Deathspank T.O.V. Defense Grid Destroy All Humans! DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION DIG DUG DiRT 3 DiRT Showdown Discs of Tron Disney Bolt Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Divinity II — DKS Domino Master Doom DOOM 3 BFG Edition Doom II Doritos Crash Course Double Dragon Neon Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age™ 2 Dragon’s Lair Driver San Francisco Duck Tales: Remastered Duke Nukem Manhattan Project Dungeon Siege III E4 Earth Defense Force 2017 Earth Defense Force 2025 Earth Defense Force: IA Earthworm Jim HD Eat Lead Encleverment Experiment Escape Dead Island F1™ 2014 Fable Anniversary Fable Heroes Fable II Fable® II Pub Games Fable III Fable Trilogy Faery: Legends of Avalon Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Far Cry 2 Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3® Blood Dragon Feeding Frenzy Feeding Frenzy 2 FIGHT NIGHT CHAMPION Fighting Vipers Final Fight: Double Impact Flashback FLOCK! Forza Horizon Foul Play Fret Nice Frogger Frogger 2 Frontlines: Fuel of War Full Spectrum Warrior FunTown Mahjong Fuzion Frenzy® Galaga Galaga Legions Galaga Legions DX GAROU -MARK OF THE WOLV Gatling Gears Gears of War Gears of War 2 Gears of War 3 Gears of War: Judgment Geometry Wars Evolved Geometry Wars Evolved² Geometry Wars™ 3: Dimensions Evolved Ghost Recon: Future Soldier™ Ghostbusters Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Gin Rummy Girl Fight Go! Go! Break Steady Goat Simulator Golden Axe Golf: Tee It Up! Grabbed by the Ghoulies™ Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Grid 2 GRID Autosport Gripshift GTA IV Guardian Heroes (TM) Gunstar Heroes Guwange Gyromancer Gyruss HALF-MINUTE HERO -Super Mega Neo- Halo 3 Halo 3 ODST Campaign Edition Halo 4 Halo Wars Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Halo: Reach Halo: Spartan Assault Hard Corps: Uprising Hardwood Backgammon Hardwood Hearts Hardwood Spades Harms Way Haunted House Heavy Weapon Hexic 2 Hexic HD Hitman: Absolution Hitman: Blood Money Hunter: The Reckoning Hydro Thunder I am Alive™ Ikaruga ilomilo Injustice: Gods Among Us Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet Interpol Iron Brigade Jade Empire™ Jeremy McGrath’s Offroad Jet Set Radio Jetpac Refuelled Jewel Quest Joe Danger 2: The Movie Joe Danger Special Edition Joust Joy Ride Turbo JUJU Jurassic Park: The Game Just Cause 2 Kameo Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Killer Is Dead KOF Neowave KOF SKY STAGE KOF2002UM Lara Croft: GoL Lazy Raiders Left 4 Dead Left 4 Dead 2 LEGO Batman LEGO® Indiana Jones™ LEGO® Indiana Jones™ 2 LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game LEGO Star Wars III LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Limbo Lode Runner Lost Odyssey LUMINES LIVE! Luxor 2 Mad Tracks Madballs Babo: Invasion Mafia II Magic 2012 Magic 2013 Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers Magic: The Gathering Marlow Briggs Mars: War Logs Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 3 Matt Hazard: BBB Medal of Honor: Airborne Meet the Robinsons MEGA MAN 9 MEGA MAN 10 Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug XX MGS PW HD Midnight Club: Los Angeles Midway Arcade Origins Might & Magic Clash of Heroes Military Madness Mirror’s Edge Missile Command Modern Warfare® 3 Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine Monday Night Combat Monkey Island: SE Monkey Island 2: SE MONOPOLY DEAL MONOPOLY PLUS MOON DIVER Motocross Madness Mr. DRILLER Online Ms. Splosion Man MS.PAC-MAN Mutant Blobs Attack Mutant Storm Empire Mutant Storm Reloaded MX Unleashed MX vs. ATV Reflex N+ NBA JAM: On Fire Edition NEOGEO BATTLE COLISEUM NEW RALLY-X NiGHTS into dream… NIN2-Jump Ninja Gaiden Black Oblivion OF: Dragon Rising Omega Five Operation Flashpoint: Red River Outland Overlord Overlord II P4A Pac-Man Pac-Man C.E PAC-MAN CE DX+ PAC-MAN MUSEUM Panzer Dragoon Orta Peggle Peggle® 2 Perfect Dark Perfect Dark Zero Phantasy Star II Phantom Breaker: Battlegrounds Pinball FX Planets Under Attack Plants vs. Zombies Portal 2 Portal: Still Alive Prey Prince of Persia Psychonauts Pure Putty Squad Puzzle Quest Puzzle Quest 2 Puzzle Quest Galactrix Puzzlegeddon QIX ++ Quantum Conundrum R-Type Dimensions R.U.S.E. Radiant Silvergun Rage Raiden IV Rainbow Six® Vegas Rainbow Six® Vegas 2 Raskulls Rayman 3 HD Rayman® Legends Rayman® Origins Red Dead Redemption Red Faction II Red Faction: Armageddon Red Faction: Battlegrounds RoboBlitz Rocket Knight® Rockstar Table Tennis Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Sacred 3 Sacred Citadel Saints Row Saints Row 2 Saints Row IV Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell Saints Row® The Third™ Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Sam & Max Save the World Samurai Shodown II Scarygirl Scrap Metal Screamride SEGA Bass Fishing Sega Vintage Collection: Alex Kidd & Co. Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage Sensible World of Soccer Shadow Assault/Tenchu Shadow Complex Shadowrun Shadows of the Damned Shank™ 2 Shinobi Shotest Shogi Shred Nebula Sid Meier’s Pirates! Silent Hill Homecoming Silent Hill: Downpour Silent Hill: HD Collection SINE MORA™ Skate 3 Skullgirls Skydive Slender: The Arrival Small Arms Sniper Elite V2 Soltrio Solitaire Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Sonic & Knuckles Sonic Adventure Sonic Adventure™ 2 Sonic CD Sonic Generations Sonic the Fighters Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Sonic The Hedgehog™ 4 Episode I Sonic The Hedgehog™ 4 Episode II SOULCALIBUR SoulCalibur II HD South Park: The Stick of Truth™ Space Ark Space Giraffe Space Invaders: IG Spec Ops: The Line Spelunky Splinter Cell: Conviction Split/Second Splosion Man SSX SSX 3 Stacking Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Battlefront II Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy Star Wars Jedi Starfighter Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Star Wars Republic Commando Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Strania STREET FIGHTER IV Stuntman: Ignition Super Contra Super Meat Boy SUPER STREETFIGHTER IV ARCADE EDITION Supreme Commander 2 SVC: ToeJam & Earl Syberia Tecmo Bowl Throwback® TEKKEN 6 Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Texas Hold’em The Cave The Darkness II The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind The King of Fighters 98 The Maw The Orange Box The Splatters™ The Walking Dead The Walking Dead: Michonne — Episode 1 The Walking Dead: Season Two The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Ticket to Ride TimeShift Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™ Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® Blacklist™ Tomb Raider Underworld Tomb Raider: Anniversary Tomb Raider: Legend Torchlight Tour de France 2009 Tower Bloxx Deluxe Toy Soldiers Toy Soldiers Cold War Toy Story 3 Toybox Turbos Trials HD Triggerheart Exelica Trine 2 Tron: Evolution Ugly Americans: Apocalypsegeddon Unbound Saga Undertow VANQUISH Virtua Fighter 2 Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Virtual-On OT Viva Piñata Viva Piñata: Trouble In Paradise Winterbottom Wolfenstein 3D Word Puzzle WOTB: Commando 3 XCOM®: Enemy Unknown XCOM®: Enemy Within Yosumin! 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Bottom Line
The list isn’t terribly impressive yet, but it is a good start. Backward compatibility is a lot easier to implement on Xbox One than it was on Xbox 360, so expect more games to come quickly as more publishers sign on.