Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games — Page 9
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
Lost Ember
Action gameLost Ember is a handsome, gentle five-hour meditation on loss and loyalty whose body-hopping mechanic is more sightseeing gimmick than systemic depth....Mixed6.3CloverPit
Action gameA grimy, debt-driven slot-machine roguelike that borrows Balatro's engine-building and wraps it in real dread. It's a smart $4.99 pick for players who...Good7.6SUMMERHOUSE
Simulation gameSUMMERHOUSE is a small, lovely building toy that asks nothing of you and gives back a fair amount for five dollars. It runs out of pieces before it ru...Good7.3Haste: Broken Worlds
Action gameLandfall's Haste: Broken Worlds is a disciplined, well-built downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's short ...Good7.9Varney Lake
Adventure gameVarney Lake is a lean, carefully composed slice of vampire pulp that shows interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more novella...Good7.1Mothmen 1966
Adventure gameA gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — but its thin mechanics, padded minigame...Mixed6.8Mixtape
Adventure gameBeethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to The Artful Escape is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks players to feel mo...Good7.4Absolum
Action gameAbsolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of Streets of Rage 4 and welds it to Dead Cells-style roguelite structure — the result is a mechanically ...Great8.0
Star Trucker
Simulation gameStar Trucker takes one of the most unglamorous jobs on Earth, straps it to a warp drive, and turns hauling freight through the void into a low-key roa...Good7.0Squirrel with a Gun
Action gameA physics-comedy sandbox built on one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — that doesn't quite have the polish to match the premise. The recoil mo...Mixed6.4Freedom Planet 2
Action gameGalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the most satisfying momentum-platformers in recent memory — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally ove...Great8.5Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Action gameEidos-Montréal's single-player Guardians of the Galaxy adventure is a solid, often funny, occasionally heartfelt take on the licensed game—one built w...Good7.4Overcooked! 2
Action gameA ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's high praise. Overcooked! 2 fixes nearly everythin...Great8.5Persona 4 Golden
RPG gameMore than a decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden still makes an enormous runtime feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG where the f...Outstanding9.3Titanfall 2
Action gameTitanfall 2 pairs the most exhilarating movement in the genre with a campaign that outclasses games ten times its budget. It was buried at launch by c...Outstanding9.4Ghostwire: Tokyo
Action gameGhostwire: Tokyo is one of the most gorgeous, atmospheric open worlds around — and one of the most mechanically repetitive. It's a mood piece dressed ...Mixed6.3A Plague Tale: Requiem
Action gameAsobo Studio's follow-up to Innocence is a striking, emotionally ambitious piece of interactive theater that doesn't always live up to its own ideas...Good7.5Forza Horizon 5
Action gameYears after launch, Forza Horizon 5 remains a gorgeous, generous open-world racer that's easy to recommend — with real reservations. Its reward loop i...Great8.3Death Road to Canada
Action gameA savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...Good7.7Broforce
Action gameBroforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on a genuinely impressive destructible sandbox — a chaotic, co-op-first blast whose ...Good7.7Ball x Pit
Action gameBall x Pit fuses Breakout, Vampire Survivors and a city-builder into a roguelite with real skill expression and a deep build-crafting hook. A grindy l...Great8.2The Rogue Prince of Persia
Action gameEvil Empire took the DNA that made Dead Cells sing and grafted it onto a Persian myth, and the result is a genuinely kinetic roguelite—even if its Ear...Good7.2Marvel's Midnight Suns
RPG gameFiraxis built a tactical combat system sharp enough to stand with the best in the genre — then wrapped it in a friendship-simulator that alternately d...Good7.4Slime Rancher 2
Action gameMonomi Park doubled down on the wobbly, dopamine-drip charm that made the original a cult hit, and Rainbow Island is the studio's most gorgeous playgr...Mixed6.5
