Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 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
Death Howl
Adventure gameA punishing, slow-burning deckbuilder whose grid tactics and persistent deck fit together well, though the rough opening and steep difficulty narrow w...Good7.1Woodo
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...Good7.6Sail 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...Mixed6.5Virginia
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...Mixed6.1Long Live the Queen
RPG gameA small, cruel, clever sim that treats failure as the lesson plan. For players willing to die repeatedly to learn what the court wants, it's a rewardi...Good7.5Shape 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...Mixed5.9RUINER
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...Good7.2Strange 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...Good7.4
Wildmender
Adventure gameWildmender has one of the best ideas in the cozy-survival genre — you fix a dead world by moving water through it — but a grindy middle, thin combat a...Mixed6.5Kraken 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...Good7.1Wheels of Aurelia
Adventure gameWheels of Aurelia is a stylish, politically ambitious piece of interactive fiction set on a 1978 coastal road, but the car barely matters and the piec...Mixed5.8Oddworld: 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 ...Mixed5.8Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Racing gameMegagon Industries has turned its mountain-bike formula into a precise, good-looking skiing game about learning one slope until you know every shortcu...Good7.7Hindsight
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...Good7.0Hellblade: 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...Great8.5A Fold Apart
Adventure gameA Fold Apart folds its geometry and its story into the same object, and few puzzle games make mechanic and meaning line up this cleanly. The puzzles s...Good7.2El Hijo - A Wild West Tale
Adventure gameEl Hijo – A Wild West Tale is a charming, low-stakes stealth adventure that's more affectionate pastiche than genre breakthrough — and at $19.99, it...Mixed5.9The 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...Good7.0Kaichu: The Kaiju Dating Sim
RPG gameSquiddershins' kaiju courtship romp is a genuinely novel twist on the dating sim — witty, gorgeous, and endearingly weird — but a shallow quiz loop an...Mixed6.7Curious Expedition
RPG gameMaschinen-Mensch's roguelike expedition sim earns its genre mashup through brutal, meaningful resource management. It stumbles on repetition and luck,...Good7.3Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
Adventure gameTrust the player to name the wrong suspect and live with it — that single idea carries Lacuna, a taut, well-drawn sci-fi noir whose writing and conseq...Good7.3
