Microsoft announced Xbox Play Anywhere at E3 last month. The program allows participating games to be played on both Xbox One and PC when bought digitally, with ...

Microsoft's Xbox Play Anywhere will bring Xbox games to Windows 10 PCs all without users paying any extra money Microsoft says.

That said, as part of yesterday's August 2025 Xbox update, it was revealed that 23 Xbox Play Anywhere titles were added in ...

Buy an Xbox game, get it for Windows 10 -- or vice versa. Play multiplayer across console and PC. But some conditions apply.

This means you will be able to download a game that works on both Windows 10 and Xbox One, though the title must be one that supports the new Play Anywhere feature.

When Microsoft announced the Xbox Play Anywhere feature at E3 2016 in June, Studio Wildcard's dinosaur game Ark: Survival Evolved was among the first third-party games to announce support for it.

Microsoft is confident that third-party publishers like EA and Activision will gave away free games via Play Anywhere, but I think they're wrong.