Ubisoft games have been added to Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature, as more titles continue to support the service
Xbox says it was “starting with thousands of titles” with more to come
A large number of Ubisoft’s disc games are now compatible with Xbox’s disc-to-digital program, as more titles continue to be supported.
The feature lets players insert a compatible Xbox One or Xbox Series X disc and receive a digital licence for it, essentially turning it into a digital version that acts as if it had been bought on the Xbox Store (and therefore no longer needs to have the disc in the drive).
Players can continue to keep the disc, which will work as it always did, but will receive the extra benefits of having a digital version, including the ability to play it on multiple Xbox devices (including the Series S, which doesn’t have a disc drive), or use other features like Play Anywhere (making PC versions available where supported) and cloud streaming.
Xbox started rolling out the disc-to-digital feature to Insider members last week, stating that it was “starting with thousands” of titles that supported it, and promising more would follow.
As players started testing their games to see which ones worked and which didn’t, it started to become clear that certain publishers’ titles – such as those by Ubisoft and Square Enix – almost universally didn’t support the feature.
This week players have started reporting that Ubisoft games now appear to be working, something VGC tested today and can verify.
Last week, when the feature initially went live, VGC tested 56 Xbox One disc games to see which ones would give a digital licence, and which didn’t. A total of 35 games did work, while 21 – including eight Ubisoft titles – didn’t.
Having run the test again today with the games that previously didn’t work, all eight Ubisoft games – Assassin’s Creed Unity, The Division 2, Far Cry 4, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Shape Up, Trackmania Turbo, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and a 2-in-1 pack including Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy – granted us a digital licence without fail.
Community tests show the majority of disc games now work
This now means 43 of our 56 Xbox One test discs have now given digital licences. Those that still haven’t include Activision titles like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Guitar Hero Live and Angry Birds Star Wars, as well as Square Enix title Kingdom Hearts 3 and Microsoft‘s own Forza Motorsport 5.
Other titles that don’t work for us included Disney Infinity 2.0 (even though Disney Infinity 3.0 did), and NBA Live 14 (even though the vast majority of other legacy EA Sports titles do). It therefore doesn’t appear to be as black-and-white as a per-publisher basis.
The Xbox community has been working together to make lists of Xbox games to see which are compatible. The most comprehensive appears to be the XCT.live Community Disc to Digital Database, which currently lists 1,870 titles. Of these, 1,454 are confirmed to work, 284 don’t and 108 are unconfirmed.
This list has yet to be fully updated to reflect the addition of Ubisoft’s games, however. While many of the publisher’s games are now flagged as working, others which haven’t been re-tested yet (including the Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy 2-pack VGC has confirmed to be working) are still listed as incompatible.
After the service launched last week, players discovered that it works with delisted games, granting digital licences for them even though they’re no longer available for purchase on the Xbox store.
Delisted games like Deadpool (delisted in 2017), F1 2021 (delisted in 2023), Minecraft: Story Mode (delisted in 2019), Rock Band 4 (delisted in 2025) and Titanfall (delisted in 2021) have all been confirmed as working.
