Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 6
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
Everspace 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...Good7.8Pupperazzi
Action gameSundae Month built one of the most disarming worlds in indie games and then bolted a job to it. When Pupperazzi lets you wander and shoot, it's magic;...Mixed6.0Monster Hunter Rise
Action gameRise is the most fluid, least hostile Monster Hunter yet — a real mechanical reinvention wrapped around a base game that runs out of teeth early. Buy ...Great8.0Fantasy 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...Good7.5Blue 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
Jagged Alliance 3
Action gameHaemimont Games has done what three studios before it couldn't — made a Jagged Alliance that earns the name. Sharp turn-based combat and a superbly ...Good7.7Avowed
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...Mixed6.3Olija
Action gameSkeleton Crew Studio's grimy, striking action-platformer builds one of the best traversal mechanics in recent memory and has the discipline to quit be...Good7.2Persona 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...Good7.7Othercide
Strategy gameOthercide fuses a genuinely inventive initiative system with monochrome art direction so confident it borders on arrogant — then buries both under a r...Good7.1Moonscars
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
