Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
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- 297
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
Sail Forth
Action gameSail Forth's wind-driven sailing model is the real thing — tuned, readable and rewarding — but the combat, bosses and errand-style quests built around...Mixed6.5Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Action gameSix Halo campaigns, a huge multiplayer map library and a careful PC port make this a strong way to play the series' classic era. It took years of patc...Great8.5RUINER
Action gameRUINER's top-down combat is aggressive, fast and well-tuned, wrapped in a striking blood-red cyberpunk look. The fights carry the game; the story, the...Good7.2Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Action gameThe best stealth sandbox ever built is attached to a story that visibly runs out of road. Play it for the systems, forgive it for the ending, and swit...Outstanding9.2Devil May Cry 5
Action gameCapcom's 2019 comeback remains a high-water mark for character-action combat: three distinct fighting systems, each deep enough to carry its own game....Great8.6Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty!
Action gameJust Add Water's remake of Abe's Oddysee keeps the satire of industrial greed landing as hard as it did in 1997, and quicksave finally makes the game ...Good7.3Loot River
Action gameLoot River's tile-sliding combat is a genuinely original idea, but stiff melee, thin variety and repetitive procedural levels squander much of it. At ...Mixed5.8Tormented Souls
Action gameTormented Souls brings back fixed-camera survival horror with care and very little irony. Its puzzles are smart and its dread is earned, but the clunk...Good7.0
Hoa
Action gameHoa is gorgeous and nearly frictionless, but its puzzles never develop past their first idea and its floaty movement keeps the core verb from ever fee...Mixed6.3Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Action gameHellblade takes psychosis seriously and builds its sound, puzzles and story around it. The audio design and lead performance are the reasons to play; ...Good7.7Fight'N Rage
Action gameFight'N Rage is a sharply designed beat 'em up: a three-button brawler with the depth of a fighting game and more unlockables than most full-priced re...Great8.5Unexplored
Action gameUnexplored takes on procedural generation's oldest problem — random levels that feel like nobody made them — and largely solves it. The combat and art...Good7.3Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Action gameYoung Horses gives you deliberately clumsy controls and dares you to laugh, and the joke lands often enough to matter. The campaign is short and the s...Good7.0Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Action gameFourteen hand-drawn fighters, a custom assist system nobody else has copied, and rollback netcode that arrived years before the genre caught up — Skul...Great8.3Hell is Us
Action gameRogue Factor built a genuinely unnerving world and then removed every crutch modern games use to guide you through it — no map, no compass, no quest m...Good7.1Creature in the Well
Action gameFlight School Studio welded a pinball table to a dungeon crawler, and the weld holds. The idea is strong, the art is better, and the game runs out of ...Good7.0Guilty Gear -Strive-
Action gameArc System Works stripped a famously impenetrable fighter down to its load-bearing walls and rebuilt it around online play that reshaped what the genr...Great8.2Aliens: Dark Descent
Action gameTindalos Interactive built an Alien game that understands the franchise isn't about killing xenomorphs — it's about running out of everything while ...Good7.1Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Action gameRespawn built a mechanically rich action game and then shipped it on PC in a state that damaged its reputation for two years. The design now justifies...Good7.1Brok the InvestiGator
Action gameA sharply drawn noir adventure that lets you solve every problem with your brain or your fists, built around a story about grief and fatherhood that e...Good7.8Ashen
Action gameAshen's passive drop-in co-op is the best structural idea the souls-like genre has produced in a decade, but mushy combat, a hostile camera, and a tec...Mixed6.0Going Under
Action gameAggro Crab's satirical roguelite lands its jokes harder than its punches — a sharp, genuinely funny skewering of startup culture whose improvised comb...Good7.3The Gunk
Action gameThe Gunk has one genuinely great idea — restoration as traversal — and then refuses to develop it for five hours. It's a gorgeous, warmly written shor...Mixed5.9Souldiers
Action gameSouldiers is a gorgeous, overstuffed metroidvania undermined by difficulty spikes, repetitive dungeons, and a runtime that sprawls past its ideas. Agg...Mixed6.0
