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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- 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
GRIME
Action gameGRIME is a visually audacious Soulslike that welds grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop built on a genuinely fresh idea. Cryp...Good7.8Refunct
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...Good7.4Tin Can
Simulation gameA merciless, tactile survival sim that turns spaceship maintenance into white-knuckle drama — as long as there's patience to survive its brutal first ...Good7.3Hades II
Action gameSupergiant took the best roguelike of the last decade and refused to simply photocopy it. Hades II is bigger, thornier, and more ambitious than its pr...Outstanding9.4Neon 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 ...Mixed5.9Deliver 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...Mixed6.6Wingspan
Board gameMonster Couch's digital port of Wingspan is a faithful, gorgeous translation of one of the decade's best board games — calming, mechanically deep, and...Great8.0
Disc 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...Great8.5Silt
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...Mixed6.1IXION
Simulation gameIXION is an atmospheric survival-builder with real ambition, wrapped around a punishing systems knot that will break most players before the second ch...Mixed6.6Fran Bow
Adventure gameFran Bow is a hand-painted descent into grief and mental illness that earns its horror through emotional honesty rather than cheap scares — a solid,...Good7.9Aeterna Noctis
Action gameAeterna Noctis is a gorgeous, sprawling, and mercilessly demanding Metroidvania whose 16-region ambition often outruns its pacing. Its inventive trave...Mixed6.3Knock on the Coffin Lid
Adventure gameA story-drunk roguelike that welds a genuine RPG loot system onto Slay the Spire's bones—ambitious, atmospheric, and occasionally buried under its own...Good7.1
