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Xbox One Backward Compatible Horror Game Guide
Microsoft has been steadily growing the Xbox One’s library of backward compatible video games since the feature went live last November, and though the selection of horror titles that can be found among them is still somewhat paltry, it’s beginning to get interesting. So rather than cover each new title or batch of titles, we’re going to use this handy guide instead.
I’ll keep this up-to-date so all you need to do when you’re itching to play something spooky from the era of the Xbox 360 is check back here to see what’s available.
Alan Wake
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Condemned: Criminal Origins
Dark Souls
Dead Space
Doom
Doom II
Doom 3: BFG Edition
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
A complete list can be found on Major Nelson’s blog, but that’s it for horror games. If you’d like to make that woefully sparse list a little less sad, Microsoft has left it up to the community to determine what comes next. So with that in mind, here are some horror games you may want to vote for.
[VOTE] Shadows of the Damned
[VOTE] BioShock
[VOTE] Catherine
[VOTE] Condemned 2: Bloodshot
[VOTE] Dante’s Inferno
[VOTE] Deadly Premonition
[VOTE] Shadows of the Damned
[VOTE] Dead Island
[VOTE] Dead Island: Riptide
[VOTE] Dead Rising
[VOTE] Dead Rising 2
[VOTE] Dead Space 2
[VOTE] Dead Space 3
[VOTE] Deadlight
[VOTE] F.E.A.R.
[VOTE] F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
[VOTE] Shadows of the Damned
[VOTE] F.E.A.R. 3
[VOTE] Lollipop Chainsaw
[VOTE] Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
[VOTE] Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
[VOTE] Resident Evil: Revelations
[VOTE] Shadows of the Damned
[VOTE] Silent Hill: HD Collection
[VOTE] Silent Hill: Homecoming
[VOTE] Silent Hill: Downpour
[VOTE] Splatterhouse
[VOTE] Shadows of the Damned!
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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