At a glance — Game: Original Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC · Launch: November 12, 2026 · Platforms: Windows 11 (Xbox app), including Xbox handhelds — Twenty-one titles added, taking the library to 25. Every game now supports mouse and keyboard, and achievements were added to KOTOR, KOTOR II, BLiNX and Conker: Live and Reloaded. Select markets only; download required; a purchase or Game Pass may be required per title.
Twenty-five years of Xbox, twenty-five games. Microsoft opened the console’s anniversary weekend — the original Xbox turns 25 on Sunday — by adding 21 original Xbox games to Backward Compatibility on PC on November 12, and they are playable today. The library now stands at 25 titles: the four that arrived earlier this year, plus a wave with real weight to it. Both Knights of the Old Republic games are here. So is Morrowind. So are both TimeSplitters, both Battlefronts, and enough Star Wars to fill a hangar.
The full list: all 25 original Xbox games on PC
The 21 games added on November 12:
- Armed and Dangerous
- Disney’s Chicken Little
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (also available with Xbox Game Pass)
- Grabbed by the Ghoulies (also available with Xbox Game Pass)
- Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb
- Red Faction II
- Secret Weapons Over Normandy
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Star Wars Battlefront II
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
- Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Star Wars: Starfighter – Special Edition
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Thrillville
- TimeSplitters 2
- TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
They join the four that opened the program on PC earlier this year: BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Fuzion Frenzy — all four also on Game Pass, which makes six of the 25 included with a subscription. The original four also received performance and stability improvements in this update, and every one of the 25 games now supports mouse and keyboard, which is how several of these were always meant to be aimed.
Eleven of the 21 are Star Wars
Count them: the two Battlefronts, Episode III, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Starfighter, Starfighter – Special Edition, The Clone Wars, Republic Commando — and the pair that headline the whole expansion, Knights of the Old Republic and Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords. For two decades the cleanest way to play KOTOR’s Xbox version was the Xbox; now BioWare’s 2003 landmark sits in the Xbox app on Windows 11 like it always belonged there. We went back to the original console version for our KOTOR Xbox review — the Old Republic at its finest, we called it, and the PC arrival changes nothing about that verdict except how easy it is to act on.
Morrowind and TimeSplitters carry the rest of the headline
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was the original Xbox’s impossible port — a full PC-scale RPG running on a console in 2002 — and it is one of only two new-wave titles included with Game Pass. Our Morrowind Xbox review called Vvardenfell “the island that swallowed a console”; on PC, with a mouse and keyboard, the island finally gets the controls it shipped without. Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Rare’s haunted-house romp, is the other Game Pass addition.
And then there is the Free Radical double: TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, the GoldenEye lineage’s loudest heirs, together in an official PC release for the first time. Around them the wave fills in properly — Republic Commando’s squad tactics, Red Faction II’s destructible scenery, Secret Weapons Over Normandy’s arcade dogfighting, Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb, Armed and Dangerous, Thrillville and Disney’s Chicken Little for the younger end of the shelf.
Achievements, a quarter-century late
The original Xbox predates achievements entirely — the system arrived with the Xbox 360 — so four of these games have simply never had them. That changed with this update: KOTOR, KOTOR II, BLiNX: The Time Sweeper and Conker: Live and Reloaded now carry achievement lists for the first time, designed with each game’s developers and publishers so they fit the spirit of each title, and each list runs to a full 1,000 Gamerscore. The lists apply on console too — the same four games earn achievements on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S once the latest system update is installed — and progress you have already made can unlock some of them retroactively. Microsoft says achievements for more original Xbox games are planned over time.
What you need, and what happens next
The requirements are plain: a Windows 11 PC (the games also run on Xbox handhelds such as the ROG Xbox Ally family), the Xbox app, and a download per game — features vary by title, availability is limited to select markets, and each game needs a purchase or, for the six noted above, a Game Pass subscription. There is no word of a disc-based route; these are digital releases, and your shelf copy stays a shelf copy.
Microsoft is explicit that this is not the end of it: more original Xbox games are promised for PC in the future. Twenty-five titles for twenty-five years is tidy arithmetic to open an anniversary weekend with. The less tidy, better news is that the number is a floor, not a ceiling.
Jason Ronald, Xbox’s VP of Next Generation, framed the program in the announcement as preservation as much as nostalgia: “The games you’ve played are part of your history with XBOX. Bringing more of them to PC and adding achievements are a few ways we’re ensuring you can continue to play the games you love, wherever you may choose.”
Where to start, if you’re staring at 25 boxes: KOTOR, if you have somehow never played it — it is the best Star Wars game of its decade and the achievements are a fine excuse. Morrowind, if you have Game Pass, because it costs you nothing and the mouse-and-keyboard controls fix the one thing the Xbox port always lacked. And TimeSplitters 2, because some of us have been waiting since 2002 to play it on a PC at all.
— June
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