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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- 387
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...Good7.2Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Action gameFourteen hand-drawn fighters, a custom assist system nobody else has copied, and rollback netcode that arrived years before the genre caught up — Skul...Great8.3SIMULACRA
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...Good7.4Creature in the Well
Action gameFlight School Studio welded a pinball table to a dungeon crawler, and the weld holds. The idea is strong, the art is better, and the game runs out of ...Good7.0Eternal 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...Mixed5.9
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...Good7.8Going Under
Action gameAggro Crab's satirical roguelite lands its jokes harder than its punches — a sharp, genuinely funny skewering of startup culture whose improvised comb...Good7.3Killer 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...Good7.2Golf With Your Friends
Sports gameBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...Mixed6.7Them's Fightin' Herds
Action gameA serious 2D fighter with a thorough teaching suite and dependable rollback netcode, wrapped in a cartoon barnyard that hides its depth. The small ros...Good7.1Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Action gameCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...Good7.7The 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...Good7.0Hand of Fate 2
Action gameHand of Fate 2 pairs a genuinely clever card-table structure and a superbly written Dealer with real-time combat that never earns the screen time it d...Good7.3Underhero
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...Mixed6.9Yooka-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...Good7.5Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
Action gameA gorgeous 2.5D soulslike padded well past what its content can carry. The art, score and writing are genuinely excellent, but recycled enemies, a blo...Mixed6.4Kaze 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 ...Good7.1Voidwrought
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...Mixed6.0Cursed to Golf
Action gameChuhai Labs built a sharp 2D physics puzzler and then bolted a punishing roguelike to its ankle. The golf is excellent; the structure around it is the...Good7.1The Falconeer
Action gameThe Falconeer's flight model and world are the work of real authorial confidence, but the missions wrapped around them are filler, and the story burie...Mixed6.4
