Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 5
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
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...Great8.6Kaiju Wars
Strategy gameKaiju Wars has one of the sharpest ideas in recent turn-based strategy — you never kill the monster, only delay it — but long missions, a punishing di...Mixed6.9Valfaris
Action gameA savagely confident run-and-gun with striking pixel art and a checkpoint system designed to make you sweat. Valfaris is short, mean, and often excell...Good7.5Windjammers 2
Sports gameWindjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...Good7.4Just Shapes & Beats
Action gameBerzerk Studio stripped a bullet hell down to a single verb — dodge — and discovered that removing the gun made the music louder. It's a short, punish...Great8.5Torment: 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...Good7.8Descenders
Action gameRageSquid built a physics model strong enough to carry an entire genre experiment, and the result is a genuinely demanding skill curve in action sport...Good7.5
The Outer Worlds
UnknownThe Outer Worlds is a sharp, reactive RPG whose compact scale and shallow combat hold it back, and the Switch port compounds both with visible techn...Mixed6.3Trek 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, ...Good7.2Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Action gameAce Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a solid, often inspired arcade flight combat game built around clouds that actually matter. A muddled story and thin mu...Good7.3Final 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...Great8.4Resident 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...Outstanding9.4Tropico 6
Simulation gameTropico 6 is a mechanically generous city builder — an archipelago-spanning dictator sim with real political teeth and a wicked sense of humor. It's h...Good7.1Metro 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...Good7.7Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Warhammer 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...Good7.2Cyber Shadow
Action gameCyber Shadow is a carefully built NES-style ninja platformer from a solo developer, with superb sprite work and a sharp difficulty curve — and a check...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...Mixed6.1Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1
