Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 2
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
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- 01Persona 5 RoyalPersona 5 Royal refines an already exceptional JRPG to an unassailable standard, blending deep social simulation with s…9.7Outstanding
- 02Ori and the Will of the WispsMoon Studios' Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a profound evolution of the Metroidvania genre, delivering an emotionall…9.7Outstanding
- 03UndertaleUndertale is a foundational critique of the RPG genre itself, one that weaponizes player choice to deliver an unforgett…9.7Outstanding
Hoa
Action gameHoa is gorgeous and nearly frictionless, but its puzzles never develop past their first idea and its floaty movement keeps the core verb from ever fee...Mixed6.3Pirates Outlaws
Card gamePirates Outlaws leans so heavily on Slay the Spire's skeleton that its own identity rests almost entirely on one idea, and harsh difficulty spikes can...Mixed6.8Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Sketchbook Developments, Fourth State, Sketchbook GamesRhianna Pratchett's script and David Housden's score make Lost Words an emotionally honest short game about loss. The word-based puzzles are clever ...Good7.1Mars Horizon
Auroch DigitalMars Horizon gets the bureaucratic thrill of the space race right, but its turn-based mission minigame wears thin and the long road to Mars turns into...Mixed6.2Void Crew
Hutlihut GamesFew co-op games make shouting at your friends while the ship burns feel this purposeful. Void Crew has clear crew roles, real combat and a roguelite u...Good7.2Heretic's Fork
9FingerGamesHeretic's Fork turns Hell's HR department into a genuinely clever hybrid of deckbuilding, horde survival and tower defence. Card combos that grow unti...Good7.3Bread & Fred
SandCastles StudioBread & Fred ties two players together in a rage-climber, and the rope is a genuinely clever idea — but brutal fall penalties, a weak solo mode and la...Mixed6.4Monument Valley 3
Adventure gameustwo games finally lets Monument Valley leave the room it was built in. Sailing and reshaping architecture make this the most ambitious game in the t...Good7.5
Slipstream
ansdorSlipstream is a disciplined take on the 1980s arcade racer, with drifting and drafting mechanics that go past nostalgia. It's short on long-term goals...Good7.5Wizard with a Gun
Galvanic GamesWizard with a Gun has one of the more inventive hooks in survival crafting: bullets that work like spell components and combine in unpredictable ways....Good7.1Lovely Planet
quicktequilaLovely Planet looks like a toy but plays like an exam. It's a short, sharp first-person shooter and platformer where slow bullets and instant restarts...Good7.3Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Racing gameMegagon Industries has turned its mountain-bike formula into a precise, good-looking skiing game about learning one slope until you know every shortcu...Good7.7Hindsight
Adventure gameHindsight is a well-written small game with real limits. It is a painterly, two-to-three-hour meditation on a mother and a daughter, and its writing c...Good7.1Loretta
Adventure gameA short, controlled noir thriller that uses its branching choices to implicate the player in a marriage's collapse. The puzzles can be obtuse and a si...Good7.0Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Action gameHellblade takes psychosis seriously and builds its sound, puzzles and story around it. The audio design and lead performance are the reasons to play; ...Good7.7Fight'N Rage
Action gameFight'N Rage is a sharply designed beat 'em up: a three-button brawler with the depth of a fighting game and more unlockables than most full-priced re...Great8.5to a T
Adventure gameto a T is a warm, funny, humane fable about living in a body the world wasn't built for — and a game too thin and too rough to recommend to most peopl...Mixed6.1A Fold Apart
Adventure gameA Fold Apart folds its geometry and its story into the same object, and few puzzle games make mechanic and meaning line up this cleanly. The puzzles s...Good7.2El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9The Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim
RPG gameSquiddershins' kaiju courtship romp is a genuinely novel twist on the dating sim — witty, gorgeous, and endearingly weird — but a shallow quiz loop an...Mixed6.7Curious Expedition
RPG gameMaschinen-Mensch's roguelike expedition sim earns its genre mashup through brutal, meaningful resource management. It stumbles on repetition and luck,...Good7.3The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
RPG gameOblivion Remastered rebuilds Cyrodiil in Unreal Engine 5 with evident care while preserving the creaky, charming 2006 skeleton underneath. Untouched d...Good7.6Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Adventure gameTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...Good7.3
