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
Supraland
Action gameOne German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...Great8.2Beacon Pines
Adventure gameBeacon Pines turns branching narrative from a menu into a mechanic, and the trick works more often than not — but a short runtime and a critical path ...Good7.1Hollow Knight: Silksong
Action gameBigger, faster, and meaner than Hollow Knight, and mostly better for it — a sequel worth recommending, provided you can stomach a difficulty curve t...Great8.7Sea of Thieves
Action gameRare built a pirate sandbox that runs entirely on player-generated chaos, and after years of free updates it has grown into the game it always promise...Good7.6Split Fiction
Action gameHazelight has done it again — Split Fiction is a relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that refuses to reuse a good idea when it could inven...Outstanding9.3Refunct
Adventure gameRefunct is a short, well-crafted first-person platformer built around restoring a dead world one button press at a time. It's over before it overstays...Good7.4Neon Abyss
Action gameNeon Abyss buries players in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and legibility gives up — spectacular, chaotic, and freque...Mixed6.7Tunche
Action gameTunche is a gorgeous hand-drawn brawler with a killer four-player couch mode, but its roguelite scaffolding is thin, enemy variety runs out fast, and ...Mixed5.9
Deliver Us The Moon
Action gameA gorgeous sci-fi mystery with real atmosphere, but puzzles that rarely fight back and timed sequences that mistake frustration for suspense hold it b...Mixed6.6The Wolf Among Us
Action gameTelltale's neo-noir fairy-tale detective story is superbly written and atmospheric, but its choices barely bend the road it was always going to walk—a...Good7.8Little Nightmares
Adventure gameLittle Nightmares turns childhood dread into a short, atmospheric puzzle-platformer with real craft and real flaws. Solid, unsettling, and worth it fo...Good7.8Disc Room
Action gameA sharp, clever arcade machine that weaponizes failure into progression—Disc Room turns dying into its most satisfying verb, even if the whole thi...Good7.7Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Action gamePocket Trap took a childhood toy, bolted it to a Zelda skeleton, and invented a subgenre worth naming. "Yoyovania" isn't a marketing gimmick — it's on...Great8.2Until Then
Adventure gamePolychroma Games has built an emotionally precise narrative adventure—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on grief as a cozy after-school h...Great8.7Creaks
Adventure gameAmanita Design steps away from its point-and-click roots for a hand-painted puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely clever idea—monsters that freeze ...Good7.5Sally Face
Adventure gamePortable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is an emotionally punishing story told through a game whose puzzle design works against it nearly as ofte...Good7.4Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Adventure gameDragonfall is the rare tactical RPG where the writing hits as hard as the shotguns. It remains one of the sharpest cyberpunk stories in the genre, hel...Great8.5Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Adventure gameA gorgeous, gut-wrenching illustrated elegy for the men and women ground up by World War I. The puzzles are featherweight, but the storytelling hits l...Great8.0Silt
Adventure gameSilt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but floaty ...Mixed6.6Yuppie Psycho
Adventure gameA surreal survival-horror with a sharp satirical streak that turns corporate dread into genuine tension, held back by a save system that punishes curi...Good7.7Bugsnax
Action gameA deceptively adorable creature-collector that smuggles a surprisingly mature story about grief, obsession, and belonging past its candy-colored exter...Good7.3Alisa
Action gameAlisa is a love letter to 1998 written in the fluent, deliberately clumsy dialect of tank controls and fixed cameras—a survival horror throwback so co...Good7.1Moonlighter
Action gameDigital Sun built a game around a genuinely fresh idea—run a shop by day, raid a dungeon by night—and executed it with enough craft and charm that its...Good7.2A Bird Story
Adventure gameA Bird Story is less a game than a short silent film you hold a controller for—beautifully made, but so thin on interactivity that it's hard to reco...Mixed6.1
