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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- 186
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
The 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...Mixed6.4Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
RPG gameA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...Good7.0Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Action gameRGG Studio took a 15-year-old brawler franchise, threw out its combat system, replaced its iconic protagonist, and delivered the series' most accessib...Great8.6Torment: Tides of Numenera
Adventure gameinXile built one of the best-written RPGs of its era, then bolted on a combat system that undermines it. If you read games the way you read novels, th...Good7.0Card-en-Ciel
RPG gameInti Creates took Mega Man Battle Network's grid, welded it to a Slay the Spire-shaped run structure, and then buried the whole thing under 300 voiced...Good7.8Songs of Silence
Adventure gameChimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence pairs genuinely arresting Art Nouveau art and a Hitoshi Sakimoto score with one legitimately fresh combat i...Mixed6.3Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
RPG gameSquare Enix has given one of the most literate, mechanically dense tactical RPGs ever made a remaster it deserved — voiced, redrawn, and respectful of...Great8.4Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Action gameFatshark built a tactile, brutally satisfying melee-and-gunplay hybrid that stands among the best in the Warhammer catalogue, then buried it under a l...Good7.2
Remnant II
Action gameGunfire Games built a mechanically generous action-RPG and then hid half of it behind procedural dice rolls and a wiki tab. The combat and build depth...Good7.5Everspace 2
Action gameROCKFISH Games built the space shooter arcade pilots have been waiting for since 2003 — a gorgeous, generous, tactile dogfighter wrapped around a loot...Good7.5Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
RPG gameLEVEL-5 spent the better part of a decade building a game about doing chores, and the result is a solid, unusually moreish RPG on Switch and Steam. Th...Good7.5Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3Where Winds Meet
Action gameA generous, mechanically rich wuxia open world whose cosmetic-only model and strong campaign are undercut by a thin endgame and a punishing install si...Good7.5Avowed
RPG gameAvowed has some of the most satisfying first-person combat an RPG has shipped in years, wrapped around a world that's beautiful, dense, and noticeably...Mixed6.3Persona 3 Reload
Adventure gameAtlus has rebuilt its most melancholy, most thematically daring RPG with the production values it always deserved — and only a repetitive back half of...Great8.4Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
RPG gameMutant Year Zero fuses real-time stealth with turn-based tactics in a way no other game quite manages — but a short campaign, a thin endgame, and rigi...Mixed6.6Ctrl Alt Ego
Action gameCtrl Alt Ego is one of the purest expressions of immersive-sim design philosophy since Prey (2017), built by essentially one person and wearing its sh...Great8.4Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Action gameSaber Interactive built a game around one idea — put a wall of five hundred screaming aliens in front of you and let you cut through it — and executed...Good7.7Garden Story
Adventure gamePicogram's grape-shaped action-RPG is warm, beautifully drawn, and structurally at war with itself — a stamina meter and a day timer that punish the e...Mixed6.2Salt and Sanctuary
Action gameA two-person studio rebuilt Dark Souls on a 2D plane and, improbably, kept almost everything that mattered — the weight, the dread, the map that folds...Great8.2Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Dune: Awakening
Action gameFuncom has built the most convincing version of Arrakis yet shipped in a video game — a survival MMO where thirst, shade and the ground under your fee...Good7.2Yes, Your Grace
Adventure gameA brutally honest little kingdom sim that understands something most strategy games refuse to admit — governing is mostly deciding which of your peopl...Good7.8Wuthering Waves
Action gameWuthering Waves builds some of the most skill-expressive real-time combat in the free-to-play action-RPG space and wraps it in an open world that trus...Good7.3
