Hasbro owns the most-requested third-party franchise for backward compatibility on XBOX: Transformers.
A measurement, not a petition.
XBOXGamePreservation.com asks players a single question: which Original XBOX and XBOX 360 games do you want to be able to play again via backward compatibility on modern XBOX consoles?
What is XBOX backward compatibility?
It's the program in which Original XBOX and XBOX 360 titles are given the green light by publishers and rights holders to let XBOX make them playable, and often buyable, again on current XBOX consoles, and PC. The games require no work from the original owners, just approval. XBOX handles everything else to get them up and running.
The Transformers catalog splits along a rights line, and the cleanest games are the most voted for backward compatibility.
Hasbro owns Transformers outright, but not every Transformers game is equally simple to bring back. Some are built on Hasbro's own continuity; others draw on the Paramount films, which brings the film rights holders into the picture. Sorting the votes by that line reveals something useful: the two most-requested Transformers games of all belong to the cleaner group.
Voter counts are deduplicated within each row and across the catalog; a player who voted for several Transformers titles is counted once in the total.
The two biggest Transformers games are not tied to the film franchise.
War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron are original Transformers stories, not tied to any movie. They are the two most-requested Transformers titles on the site, and with Transformers: Devastation they form a group of three games built on Hasbro's own continuity that Hasbro owns outright, no film clearance in the picture.
votes across three non-film original games, from 14,737 distinct voters. That is more than half of all Transformers demand, with no external film rights to clear.
The movie games carry real demand, and an extra clearance step.
Four Transformers games are tied to the Michael Bay films: Transformers: The Game, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark. Together they account for 24,520 votes from 8,662 voters, roughly 40% of all Transformers demand. Hasbro owns Transformers, but because these titles draw on the films, a return would likely involve the film rights holders (Paramount / DreamWorks) alongside Hasbro. Rise of the Dark Spark is really a sequel to the Cybertron games, but its story bridges them with the Age of Extinction film, so it sits with the film group rather than the clean originals.
* Film tie-ins. Hasbro owns Transformers, but these titles are tied to the films, so a return may require additional clearance from the film rights holders.
A vote for the XBOX 360 version even when a newer version exists is intentional.
Three of these games, Fall of Cybertron, Devastation, and Rise of the Dark Spark, also had XBOX One releases. Those XBOX One versions are outside the scope of this site, which tracks Original XBOX and XBOX 360 titles, so every vote here is specifically for the XBOX 360 release.
Different versions of a game are different things to preserve, and players may have concrete reasons to want the XBOX 360 game even alongside its XBOX One counterpart: its XBOX achievement list is version-specific, its save files carry over to modern hardware for those who kept the original disc or previously purchased the game digitally, and for some it could have been their first experience with the game or the wider IP. All the Cybertron-era Transformers games were delisted from XBOX stores when the license lapsed, so none are available to buy digitally in any version today. Backward compatibility is the clearest path to making the XBOX 360 releases playable and even purchasable again.
Some of the oldest games in the portfolio have never been on PC.
In July 2026, XBOX backward compatibility expanded to PC. The Transformers games all released on PC, but several older Original XBOX titles in the portfolio were console-only in their original release and never came to PC at the time: Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, Monopoly Party, and Trivial Pursuit: Unhinged among them. A couple of the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games later released on PC through modern remasters, but the original XBOX versions people are voting for here never did. For the true console-only titles, approval could bring them to PC for the first time, with no development work from Hasbro.
The top 10
The top of the Hasbro demand curve is Transformers and nothing else. All seven Transformers titles occupy the top seven spots.
One franchise, and a clean place to start.
For most publishers, backward compatibility demand spreads across a catalog, for Hasbro it does not. Transformers is 97% of all Hasbro demand in this dataset, which makes the picture particularly clear: this is a strong franchise signal, the largest for any third-party franchise in the entire database.
More than half of Transformers demand sits on games with no film rights to clear, and those games are the two most-requested titles in the whole franchise. The film tie-ins carry real demand too, but they come with an extra clearance step. If the goal were to act on the strongest, most straightforward signal first, the data points to a small, specific set of games: the Cybertron titles and Devastation.
Bringing back just those three games, War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and Devastation, would satisfy 14,737 voters: 94% of everyone who voted for a Transformers game, and 91% of everyone who voted for any Hasbro game at all.
Hasbro has been here before: four Magic: The Gathering games are already backward compatible.
Backward compatibility isn't new territory for Hasbro-owned IP. Four Magic: The Gathering games from Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro's subsidiary, are already in the program.
All four were delisted from the XBOX store and can no longer be bought digitally, even though they remain playable through backward compatibility. They sit in the same limbo as the delisted XBOX One Transformers games: only available to those who already own them, no longer available for new purchases.
These four are already backward compatible and are not part of the demand totals on this page. The 2015 edition was the only Duels of the Planeswalkers game never added to the program; it is the one that appears in the voting catalog.
Method & caveats.
Live site data: 871,129 votes from 91,237 voters across 2,817 games, and growing. Percentages are calculated against the current voter total.
Titles are attributed to Hasbro to the best of my knowledge from public information, including brands held through its Wizards of the Coast subsidiary (Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering). Transformers games are split by whether they are built on Hasbro's own original stories or on the film continuity. A single asterisk (*) marks the film tie-ins, where a return may require clearance from the film rights holders alongside Hasbro; Rise of the Dark Spark is grouped here because it bridges the Cybertron games and the Age of Extinction film. A double asterisk (**) marks games where Hasbro owns the underlying property but the game was made or published by another company under license. Titles that used the Kinect sensor are labeled as such in the full list below, since that hardware is no longer produced. The "PC debut" marker is applied only to Original XBOX titles that were never released on PC, since only Original XBOX games have so far been announced for PC backward compatibility. Games already backward compatible and delisted games are excluded from the demand totals, so they do not appear in the vote counts here.
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Every game by category.
All 31 Hasbro-owned titles behind the demand figures, with platform and vote count. A game released on both Original XBOX and XBOX 360 appears as two separate entries, each with its own demand. Tap any title to open its page.
* Film tie-ins. Hasbro owns Transformers, but these titles are tied to the Michael Bay films, so a return may require clearance from the film rights holders (Paramount / DreamWorks) alongside Hasbro.
** Hasbro owns the underlying property, but the game was made or published by another company under license, so a return may require agreement from additional rights holders.