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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- 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
Woodo
Casual gameWoodo is a gentle, well-crafted diorama puzzle game whose tactile placement loop and voiced narration carry it further than its low difficulty does. S...Good7.6Virginia
Adventure gameVirginia borrows film editing more confidently than almost any game before it, but hands the player almost nothing to do and trusts its cuts more than...Mixed6.1Shape of the World
Casual gameHard to recommend for most people: Shape of the World is a gorgeous, pressure-free walk through a world that grows around you, but there is very littl...Mixed5.9Strange Antiquities
Adventure gameBad Viking's occult shopkeeping sequel turns the act of looking closely into the entire game, and it is richer and more demanding than Strange Horticu...Good7.4Kraken Academy!!
Adventure gameHappy Broccoli Games built a sharp, funny time-loop mystery on top of a cast odd enough to carry it. It is short and its objectives are sometimes mudd...Good7.1Hindsight
Adventure gameHindsight is a well-written small game with real limits. It is a painterly, two-to-three-hour meditation on a mother and a daughter, and its writing c...Good7.1Loretta
Adventure gameA short, controlled noir thriller that uses its branching choices to implicate the player in a marriage's collapse. The puzzles can be obtuse and a si...Good7.0The Wreck
Adventure gameFew narrative games make reinterpreting a memory the central verb, and The Wreck builds its whole design around that idea. It's a solid, affecting t...Good7.0
Moonglow Bay
Adventure gameMoonglow Bay has one of the most emotionally honest premises in the cozy genre — a voxel story about grief, debt, and small-town decline, scored by Le...Mixed5.9Golf With Your Friends
Sports gameBy throwing out mini golf's most sacred rule — take turns — Blacklight Interactive built one of the funniest party-game concepts on Steam, then left i...Mixed6.7The Witch's House MV
Adventure gameFummy's 2012 cult classic returns with sharper pixels, better sound, and — crucially — a retry button that repairs the legendarily sadistic horror gam...Good7.0LEGO Bricktales
Adventure gameAfter two decades of LEGO games where "building" meant holding a button while bricks assembled themselves, ClockStone made one where every brick gets ...Mixed6.9Kaze and the Wild Masks
Action gamePixelHive has built the most convincing Donkey Kong Country tribute since Rare stopped making them — beautiful, brutally precise, and almost entirely ...Good7.1Golf Club Wasteland
Adventure gameGolf Club Wasteland is a melancholy, well-crafted eulogy for human civilization delivered through a golf game — solid, affecting work that ends sooner...Good7.2Sonic Mania
Action gameFew revivals land this cleanly: Sonic Mania hands classic Sonic back to the people who spent two decades reverse-engineering why those games worked, a...Great8.0Unrailed!
Action gameUnrailed! takes the one-tool-per-job cruelty of Overcooked and welds it to a train that never stops. With three friends on a couch it's a sharp coop...Good7.3Moving Out
Action gameMoving Out has a great slapstick premise and the best Assist Mode in its genre, but a short campaign, a hollow solo mode, and no online play cap who...Mixed6.5Afterlove EP
Adventure gameA tender, specific, gorgeously drawn portrait of a young man failing to move on in Jakarta — undercut by rhythm sections that feel like a rough demo b...Mixed6.3Backfirewall_
Adventure gameBackfirewall turns a forced OS update into a short tragicomedy about obsolescence, and it mostly lands both the jokes and the gut-punch. It's brief, ...Good7.2Freshly Frosted
Puzzle gameFreshly Frosted takes the automation genre's spreadsheet-brain appeal, strips out every ounce of stress, and frosts what's left in pastel. It's short ...Good7.3Kill It With Fire
Action gameCasey Donnellan's spider-hunting sandbox is a one-joke game that tells its one joke well — a tight, physics-drunk few hours whose design is genuinely ...Good7.1Pupperazzi
Action gameSundae Month built one of the most disarming worlds in indie games and then bolted a job to it. When Pupperazzi lets you wander and shoot, it's magic;...Mixed6.0Blue Wednesday
Adventure gameBuff Studio has written one of the most honest games about creative burnout around, wrapped it in a genuinely excellent original jazz score, and then ...Mixed6.8Paradise Marsh
Action gameA solo-developed mood piece with real writing and a gorgeous score, undermined by a thin loop and procedural terrain that flattens its own atmosphere ...Mixed6.3
