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List of Games for Windows titles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ2564379 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of Games for Windows titles: video games under Microsoft's Games for Windows label. With the closure of the Xbox.com PC marketplace in August 2013, no games were developed for the platform past 2013. The clients software and the servers are still available.

Released

This list contains 251 game titles on this list.

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Notes

See also

Games for Windows

Games for Windows – Live

List of Games for Windows – Live titles

List of Windows Games on Demand

Live Anywhere

References

External links

Games for Windows - Live[link removed]

"Games for Windows Marketplace".

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