Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 4
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
The 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...Good7.6Hand 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...Mixed6.9Shin 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...Good7.5Surviving Mars
Simulation gameFor its opening stretch, Surviving Mars is the most quietly tense builder on Steam — a game about oxygen math and severed power cables where one dust ...Good7.0Mortal Shell
Action gameA short, sharp Soulslike built around one mechanic worth the price of entry, wrapped in a world that runs out of ideas well before the credits. Harden...Mixed6.5
LEGO 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 ...Mixed6.9Mandragora: 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 ...Good7.1Chorus
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...Mixed6.0Cursed 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...Good7.1Thronebreaker: 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...Great8.0Unrailed!
Action gameUnrailed! takes the one-tool-per-job cruelty of Overcooked and welds it to a train that never stops. With three friends on a couch it's a sharp coop...Good7.3Moving Out
Action gameMoving Out has a great slapstick premise and the best Assist Mode in its genre, but a short campaign, a hollow solo mode, and no online play cap who...Mixed6.5Journey 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...Mixed6.4Legend 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...Good7.0Rayman 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
