Here are the 47 games that'll be totally lost when the Xbox 360 store shuts down
On July 29, 2024, Microsoft will turn off the ability to purchase games on the Xbox 360 Marketplace, effectively killing access to hundreds of digital games. Many of those games will remain available on other platforms, but there are outliers - and one resource has put together a list of the 47 games that will die with the 360 store.
The folks at Delisted Games have gone through the list of digital Xbox 360 titles to find those that are not available for purchase either physically or on other digital platforms. You won't find many landmark hits in the list, but you will see a lot of nifty indie titles and interesting historical curiosities - alongside a heck of a lot of Kinect experiments.
Aegis Wing is probably the title most worth calling out here, because it's a weird outlier in multiple ways. It's technically a first-party Xbox game, developed as part of a unique Microsoft internship program by three developers and released on Xbox Live Arcade with the assistance of Carbonated Games. This game is free on the Xbox 360 Marketplace and backwards compatible on modern Xbox consoles, but you can't actually acquire it on the current store. You can only get it by digging into the old Marketplace and adding it to your account there.
None of the other games on the list are backwards compatible, and that's a shame. Some of the standouts to my eyes include Meteos Wars, an XBLA sequel to a DS puzzle game originally designed by Smash Bros. lead Masahiro Sakurai. There are also well regarded indies like brawler The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and action-RPG Crimson Alliance.
As a sicko for gaming's weird curiosities, I'm particularly interested in some of the highly-maligned stuff in the list. There's Wing Commander Arena, an
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