Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 3
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
Cursed 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...Good7.1Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3The 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...Mixed6.4Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Journey to the Savage Planet
Action gameA gorgeous, funny, tightly-built first-person Metroidvania undermined by shallow combat, relentless joke density, and late-game padding — hard to reco...Mixed6.4Rayman Legends
Action gameMore than a decade after its September 2013 release, Rayman Legends remains one of the most generous and joyfully designed 2D platformers on Steam or ...Great8.8Afterlove EP
Adventure gameA tender, specific, gorgeously drawn portrait of a young man failing to move on in Jakarta — undercut by rhythm sections that feel like a rough demo b...Mixed6.3
Yakuza: 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...Good7.0Trek to Yomi
Action gameTrek to Yomi is one of the most beautiful things ever built in a game engine and one of the least interesting things to actually play. It's a five-hou...Mixed5.9Songs 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...Mixed6.3Backfirewall_
Adventure gameBackfirewall turns a forced OS update into a short tragicomedy about obsolescence, and it mostly lands both the jokes and the gut-punch. It's brief, ...Good7.2Resident Evil 4 (2023 Remake)
Action gameCapcom didn't just restore a classic — it rebuilt one of gaming's most influential action games with enough confidence to cut, rewrite, and improve th...Outstanding9.4Metro Exodus
Action gameMetro Exodus trades the claustrophobic corridors that defined the series for a year-long train ride across a ruined Russia — and against the odds, the...Good7.7Warhammer 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...Good7.2Remnant 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...Good7.5Absolver
Action gameAbsolver contains one of the most original combat systems ever shipped in a video game — a martial-arts move-set builder disguised as an action RPG — ...Mixed6.5Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Everspace 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...Good7.5Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom
Action gameA fan project that outgrew its own fandom, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom understands its ancestor well enough to argue with it — a handsome, mech...Good7.8Snufkin: 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...Good7.5Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8
