Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 7
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
Chinatown Detective Agency
Adventure gameGeneral Interactive Co. resurrected the one mechanic the adventure genre abandoned thirty years ago — making the player actually learn something — t...Mixed5.9Vernal Edge
Action gameHello Penguin Team built a genuinely thrilling air-juggle fighting game and then buried it inside a Metroidvania that keeps losing players on the map....Mixed6.4American 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 ...Good7.7Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Action gameLizardcube has taken a stiff, punishing arcade relic and rebuilt it as a fluid, gorgeous 2D action game with a genuinely smart combat economy — one th...Good7.9Street Fighter 6
Action gameStreet Fighter 6 is a well-built, genuinely welcoming fighting game that fixes most of what sank Street Fighter V — but its aggressive monetization ...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 ...Good7.8
Infernax
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...Mixed6.0Keeper
Adventure gameKeeper is a visually inventive, wordless puzzle-adventure from Double Fine that trusts its audience completely. The puzzles are too soft to justify th...Good7.3Dune: Awakening
Action gameFuncom has built the most convincing version of Arrakis yet shipped in a video game — a survival MMO where thirst, shade and the ground under your fee...Good7.2Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Action gameMachineGames took the most famous silhouette in adventure cinema and hid it behind your own eyes — and made the character more present, not less. Th...Good7.9Sid Meier's Civilization VII
Simulation gameFiraxis built the boldest structural rethink in the series' 35-year history, then shipped it wrapped in an interface that actively fights you and an e...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...Good7.5Wuthering Waves
Action gameWuthering Waves builds some of the most skill-expressive real-time combat in the free-to-play action-RPG space and wraps it in an open world that trus...Good7.3The 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 ...Great8.3SnowRunner
Adventure gameSnowRunner turns getting stuck in the mud into one of gaming's most absorbing loops — a physics showcase with genuine patience-testing depth. We recom...Good7.7Metal: Hellsinger
Action gameMetal: Hellsinger fuses rhythm-game timing with Doom-style carnage in a way few shooters attempt, and the core loop delivers something genuinely disti...Good7.4Thimbleweed 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...Good7.4
