You read that right: Retro Classics will add over 100 games in 2025 and 2026

The service has also surpassed one million active players.

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It was a surprise we didn’t expect, but the Xbox Retro Classics program has become incredibly popular among Xbox Game Pass subscribers since its incorporation into the service back in late May of this year. In fact, there are already over a million active users enjoying a vast catalog of games that seems to be timeless.

Behind the scenes of the Retro Classics program is Antstream Arcade, the company that confirmed that in just 27 days, the service accumulated over a million people willing to spend thousands of hours enjoying titles from another era. The service started with the idea of providing many users with a cloud-based retro experience for mobile devices, specifically for Apple iOS, something that has been growing and expanding to other platforms.

PRESERVING A CATALOG IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE

The service’s catalog seems to be constantly expanding. Recently, my colleague Adrián told you that five new titles had arrived as new additions, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as over 100 names (specifically 120) will be added to the retro offering in the coming months, a period that includes the rest of 2025 and part of 2026, although there is no precise confirmation of times yet, which will be announced as the next few months progress.

One of the remaining mysteries is which titles will be added, which will also add new tournaments for each one and probably achievements to accompany them. Activision titles have been the focus of the service so far, and it’s likely that this trend will continue in the near future, although we’ll see if there are any surprises in store, considering that Antstream has already brought classic Disney games like The Lion King, The Jungle Book, and Aladdin, among others, to other systems. It would be great if they came to Retro Classics too!