Xbox One Backwards Compatible Games Confirmed

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With the New Xbox Experience launching soon on Xbox One consoles we thought it would be helpful to have an updated list of the currently confirmed backwards compatible Xbox 360 games. As soon as the update, which is available starting November 12, 2015, is downloaded and installed on your Xbox One console you will be able to play these Xbox 360 games, granted you own either the physical copy or digital download of the game.

Confirmed Games:

Kingdom for Keflings
A World of Keflings
Alien Hominid HD
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
BattleBlock Theater
Defense Grid
Gears of War
Gears of War 2*
Gears of War 3*
Gears of War: Judgment*
Geometry Wars Evolved
Hexic HD
Jetpac Refuelled
Kameo
Mass Effect
N+
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Shadow Complex
Small Arms
Super Meat Boy
Toy Soldiers
Toy Soldiers: Cold War
Viva Piñata
Viva Piñata: TIP
Zuma

*these titles are confirmed to be available this Fall

Rumored Games:

Additionally, during Microsoft’s press conference at Gamescom this year, a video was playing in the background in which a list of Xbox 360 games scrolled by. Several of these titles were not on the list of the games confirmed by Microsoft, however, their inclusion likely means they will eventually make their way to Xbox One.

Alan Wake
Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
Assassin’s Creed II
Bayonetta
BioShock
BioShock Infinite
Borderlands
Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway
Cars
Child of Eden
Civilization Revolution
Dark Souls
Dead Space
Disney Universe
Endwar
Fable 2
Fallout 3
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 3
Risen
Risen 2
Trials

One last note, if you don’t see your favorite 360 games on the list, don’t fret. Microsoft added a new section to their Xbox Feedback page, allowing users to vote on which games they want to make the cut. Since it is ultimately up to the publisher as to whether or not their game is backwards compatible, there is no guarantee it ever ends up on the list, but there are certain things we must do for love, arbitrary or not.

Let us know which games you hope to make the cut in the comments section below.