Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 8
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
Grounded
Action gameA shrunken-backyard survival game with real mechanical depth and an actual ending, Grounded earns a clear recommendation — with the mid-game grind and...Great8.2APICO
Simulation gameAPICO takes the Forestry-mod DNA of genetics-driven bee breeding, strips out the punishment, and wraps it in a pixel-art conservation story that respe...Good7.2Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth
Action gameA gorgeous, precision-built Metroidvania that trades sprawl for craft — a short run of near-flawless sprite work and a genuinely smart elemental comba...Good7.4OPUS: Echo of Starsong
Adventure gameSIGONO has built one of the more emotionally precise science-fiction stories the medium has produced this decade, then wrapped it in mechanics that ra...Good7.7Paratopic
Adventure gameParatopic is a confidently edited horror anthology — a roughly 50-minute low-poly fever dream that trusts its audience more than most big-budget thril...Good7.0Absolute Drift
Action gameAbsolute Drift is a study in focused design — one mechanic, sharpened hard, wrapped in stark white minimalism and drum & bass. Its punishing onboardin...Good7.8Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Action gameSnoozy Kazoo's shredder-happy vegetable crime spree is very funny and tightly built, but thin where it counts and over almost as soon as it finds its ...Good7.1Airborne Kingdom
Adventure gameAirborne Kingdom builds one of the freshest hooks the city-builder genre has produced in a decade — a metropolis that must physically stay aloft — the...Mixed6.1
Monster Hunter Wilds
Action gameMonster Hunter Wilds is the most legible, most welcoming Monster Hunter Capcom has ever built — and on PC it ships in a state that's hard to recommend...Mixed6.7Papetura
Adventure gamePapetura is a game where the medium is the argument — every set was physically cut, folded and glued by one person before a camera ever touched it, ...Good7.7Sorry We're Closed
Action gameà la mode games built a survival horror hybrid that snaps between fixed-camera dread and first-person arcade shooting without either half feeling like...Great8.0Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Action gameOwlcat's Rogue Trader is an ambitious licensed CRPG — a long interrogation of the Imperium's rot that respects your intelligence and punishes your pat...Good7.8ARC Raiders
Action gameARC Raiders has the most humane, best-feeling core of any extraction shooter on the market — but a botched balance patch, a glacial content cadence, a...Mixed6.8Quern - Undying Thoughts
Adventure gameZadbox Entertainment built a puzzle island that actually thinks like an island — interconnected, reusable, stubbornly coherent — and the result is a w...Good7.6Desperados III
Strategy gameDesperados III is real-time tactics at its sharpest in years — a ruthless, endlessly re-solvable puzzle box wearing spurs. Anyone with an appetite for...Great8.8Toodee and Topdee
Action gameA solo-developed puzzle-platformer built on one genuinely original idea — toggling between a 2D platformer and a top-down puzzler in the same level — ...Good7.6LEGO Builder's Journey
Adventure gameA gorgeous, wordless meditation on play and parenthood that treats LEGO bricks with more reverence than any licensed blockbuster — but at $19.99 for r...Mixed6.5PlateUp!
Action gamePlateUp! takes the Overcooked formula, bolts on a roguelite spine and a genuinely deep automation sandbox, and ends up as one of the smartest co-op co...Great8.3Obduction
Adventure gameObduction is the truest heir to Myst anyone has made — Cyan included — a gorgeous, cerebral puzzle box that respects your intelligence to a degree tha...Good7.2Escape Academy
Adventure gameEscape Academy is a video game adaptation of a physical hobby that understands why people love the original. Its rooms are clever and its co-op is a...Good7.2Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
RPG gameA solo-developed, Earthbound-descended RPG that hides one of the genre's most devastating emotional payloads behind goofy jokes and an inventive trans...Great8.2Myst
Adventure gameCyan's Unreal Engine remake of Myst is a solid, careful modernization of a foundational adventure game, with smart puzzle randomization as its one gen...Good7.4RiME
Adventure gameRiME is a gorgeous, gentle puzzle adventure whose final hour recontextualizes everything before it — a trick few games attempt and fewer land. The puz...Good7.1inbento
Puzzle gameinbento is a charming, gently clever puzzle game with a genuinely affecting wordless story — but it ends too soon, and its mobile version is now locke...Good7.4
