Xbox Game Preservation adds delisted-games voting; top 10

Xbox Game Preservation has added a delisted-games voting tab and published an initial top 10 ranking of titles users want returned to the Xbox Store.

The site had gathered roughly 350,000 votes and approached 400,000 after a May tweet from Xbox vice president of next-gen Jason Ronald that directed fans to the platform.

The new tab lets users cast votes only for games that are no longer available on the Xbox Store or were never released digitally. The feature is separate from the site’s main backwards-compatibility leaderboard and includes pagination so visitors can browse beyond 100 entries.

The site’s creator wrote: “Feedback I constantly get is the wish to vote to relist de-listed games or make ‘X’ game available digitally… now you can! I’m keeping these games outside of the global leaderboards since these requests are a bit different than general backwards compatibility.”

The initial delisted top 10 lists Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Xbox 360), Ultra Street Fighter IV, Left 4 Dead 2, Left 4 Dead, Batman: Arkham Origins, The Orange Box, FEAR, Peter Jackson’s King Kong, FEAR Files and Halo 3. The creator said some titles, including King Kong and Batman: Arkham Asylum, were never sold digitally but remain listed under the same verbiage.

The preservation site records voter demand but does not relist games. Xbox has not issued a public commitment to restore any delisted titles. The site serves as a public record of which older and currently unavailable games receive the most requests.