Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 4
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 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
Moonscars
Action gameMoonscars has some of the best-looking swordplay in the 2D souls-like field and a death system that actually means something — but a hard-to-parse map...Mixed6.4Arcade Paradise
Adventure gameNosebleed Interactive built 35 real arcade games and then had the nerve to make you earn them one bin bag at a time — a genuinely clever idea that wor...Good7.3Shady Part of Me
Indie gameA clever light-and-shadow puzzle game with striking watercolor art and a mechanic worth learning. The puzzles thin out before the credits and the ther...Good7.1Garden 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...Great8.2Touhou Luna Nights
Action gameTeam Ladybug built a Metroidvania around a time-stop button and then had the discipline to design every room, hazard, and boss pattern to justify it. ...Great8.0Paradise Marsh
Action gameA solo-developed mood piece with real writing and a gorgeous score, undermined by a thin loop and procedural terrain that flattens its own atmosphere ...Mixed6.3Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Action gameBoltgun's gunplay is the best-feeling of any Warhammer 40,000 shooter in a decade — a pixelated abattoir with real mechanical craft — but sprawling, s...Mixed6.5
American Arcadia
Adventure gameOut of the Blue's two-hander is a narrative puzzle game where the structure is the argument — a 1970s dystopia told in TV cuts between the man being...Good7.4Hollowbody
Adventure gameOne person built a survival horror game with more atmosphere than most studio productions, then declined to take a single real risk with it. Hollowb...Good7.2TEVI
Action gameTEVI is one of the more mechanically ambitious metroidvanias in recent memory and one of the more exhausting — a sharp fusion of melee combo fighting ...Good7.7Alina of the Arena
Strategy gameBy dragging Slay the Spire's card math onto a hex grid, PINIX built a deckbuilder where standing in the wrong tile kills you faster than a bad draw ...Good7.8Infernax
Action gameBerzerk Studio built a loving forgery of a 1988 NES cartridge, then quietly fixed everything that made those cartridges miserable. Infernax is mea...Good7.7Lake
Adventure gameGamious built a genuinely adult narrative game about a woman deciding what her life is for, then wrapped it in a mail-delivery loop that runs far long...Mixed6.0Yes, 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...Good7.8ScourgeBringer
Action gameScourgeBringer strips the action-roguelite down to one idea — attack or die — and executes it with a discipline most of its peers never reach. It's sh...Good7.5The Swindle
Action gameThe Swindle has one of the sharpest risk/reward loops in the roguelike canon, bolted onto platforming controls that can't carry the weight. When the d...Mixed5.9Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Action gameThunder Lotus's hand-drawn Norse epic is one of the most beautiful indie games ever animated, and one of the thinnest to actually play. At $14.99, it'...Mixed6.1TowerFall Ascension
Action gameTowerFall Ascension is one of the sharpest local multiplayer designs of the indie era — lean, readable, and built so that every loss makes sense. Its ...Great8.3Thimbleweed Park
Adventure gameRon Gilbert and Gary Winnick built a time machine, and it works. Thimbleweed Park is a sharp, well-produced classic point-and-click adventure — provid...Good7.9Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Action gameAsteroid Base built a co-op machine that turns communication breakdown into comedy and teamwork into genuine delight. A decade on, it remains a stando...Good7.4Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
Action gameA gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — a short run of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental comba...Good7.4OPUS: Echo of Starsong
Adventure gameSIGONO has built one of the more emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...Good7.7Paratopic
Adventure gameParatopic is a confidently edited horror anthology — a roughly 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most big-budget thril...Good7.0
