Why does Xbox Game Bar show some games as "Online" when playing?

I've been having this issue as well, most recently with Days Gone. A huge PC release and they still don't show the title of it. My guess is that Microsoft has a database of game titles that show up. I love game bar, but this is easily the worse part. Whenever I play a game like "Rouge Company" (which doesn't show up on Gamebar by the way), my console friends just think I'm not doing anything on my PC. Please fix this Microsoft.

Just as you sent this, Days Gone shows up now.

A mini-win, I guess. Haha.

Go ahead and buy it now. Enjoying it so far. Hopefully they get every game to show up eventually.

The first link you posted doesn't have my question listed. I've looked through a few forum posts on the internet before posting this and nobody seems to know how to fix?

The only tip I really saw was to check "remember this is a game" in the Game Bar settings.. and that doesn't do anything. It remembers the game for recording stuff but still shows "Online" when I play those games.

I'm very tech savvy btw this has been happening for weeks/months. Thanks!

We would recommend going over the troubleshooting steps listed here: Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows 10 | Xbox Support

It would also be helpful to perform a quick boot on your Pc by following the steps mentioned here: How to perform a clean boot in Windows (microsoft.com)

Agreed! Glad I got a non-robotic response haha.

I was thinking of buying Days Gone too.

I don't get why this happens.. But it seems like you say.. They have a database of games that show up on the Xbox status and many don't still.. Weird.