Installed games not showing on Xbox app

Harry Richards · Jun 30, 2020

The xbox console basically forces you to upgrade to the Xbox app that pushes the Access Pass which is not important to me. My installed games are important to me. I did find another post from a year ago stating that they should uninstall and reinstallt
the app to have the games populate. Why is this still a problem a year later? I just went through having to update my windows 10 and install the Xbox app just to have to reinstall the app? Xbox on the PC is getting to the point where you are just now worth
the effort. Why is there no manual option for you to point to an installed game and have it recognized if your install does not work properly? Just for the record the Xbox console shows all my games and allows me to manually add games. It also has a message
saying it is being replaced by this new Xbox app that is not adequate.

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romeoteknik

Harry, can you clarify what you mean here? How is the console "forcing you to upgrade to an app"? That doesn't make sense to me. I have Ultimate Game Pass which is for the console and PC. Can you give an example with a game or what you are trying to do?

PC Game Pass is different and doesn't include every single game that's on the console and vice versa.

GreyStormGaming

Have you bought the game on Xbox ? Keep in mind that the Xbox app also shows games that are installed on your computer.

Chaosking243

Apologies if it wasn't clear in my post somehow, but they are not in the ready to install section of the game itself, or the games and apps menu. They don't even show as free in the xbox store, only on the microsoft website, despite me owning them. I've
even tried pushing the download from the xbox app on my laptop (where they show as owned), as soon as I do my xbox says “you need to install the game or app for this”

Smwutches

The game should show as ready to install in your games and apps. You would install it from there.

LawsonHill

Go to the My Games & Apps App on your Xbox One and scroll to the right. It will show all of the Xbox 360 games that are eligible for installation.

If it doesn't show the game under the My Games & Apps, do a hard reset on your console (hold the power down on your console until it completely shuts off).

Installed games not showing on Xbox app