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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Top rated on Xbox
- 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
Unexplored
Action gameUnexplored takes on procedural generation's oldest problem — random levels that feel like nobody made them — and largely solves it. The combat and art...Good7.3Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Action gameYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...Good7.0Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Hell is Us
Action gameRogue Factor built a genuinely unnerving world and then removed every crutch modern games use to guide you through it — no map, no compass, no quest m...Good7.1Eternal Threads
Adventure gameEternal Threads' ripple-effect timeline — a hundred small decisions deciding who lives — is one of the more original narrative systems in years, but i...Mixed6.4Moonglow Bay
Adventure gameMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...Mixed5.9Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Action gameRespawn built a mechanically rich action game and then shipped it on PC in a state that damaged its reputation for two years. The design now justifies...Good7.1
Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Killer Frequency
Adventure gameA horror game built around a microphone instead of a shotgun, Killer Frequency's gimmick — talking terrified strangers through a slasher's night while...Good7.2The Gunk
Action gameThe Gunk has one genuinely great idea — restoration as traversal — and then refuses to develop it for five hours. It's a gorgeous, warmly written shor...Mixed5.9Souldiers
Action gameSouldiers is a gorgeous, overstuffed metroidvania undermined by difficulty spikes, repetitive dungeons, and a runtime that sprawls past its ideas. Agg...Mixed6.0Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2The Witch's House MV
Adventure gameFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...Good7.0Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Adventure gamePlaytonic's second outing trades the collectathon baggage of the original for sharp 2D platforming and a genuinely clever overworld. The checkpoint-fr...Good7.5LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Kaze and the Wild Masks
Action gamePixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...Good7.1Chorus
Action gameChorus builds one of the finest flight models in modern space combat around a drift mechanic that genuinely rewires how you fight — then wraps it in a...Mixed6.5Voidwrought
Action gameVoidwrought is a well-made, gorgeous Metroidvania that never escapes the shadow of the game it so clearly adores, and its own ideas are too underdevel...Mixed6.0
