Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 29
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
Monument Valley 3
Adventure gameustwo games finally lets Monument Valley leave the room it was built in. Sailing and reshaping architecture make this the most ambitious game in the t...Good7.5Hindsight
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...Good7.1Lacuna – 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...Good7.3Teslagrad
Adventure gameRain Games built a puzzle-platformer that teaches physics through play and tells its whole story without a word, and its design still holds up more th...Good7.2LEGO 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 ...Mixed6.9Freshly 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 ...Good7.3Trüberbrook
Adventure gameTrüberbrook is the best-looking point-and-click adventure of the last decade and one of the least satisfying — a ten-hour walk through hand-built mini...Mixed6.1Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley
Adventure gameA gorgeous, quietly pointed little adventure about vandalizing municipal infrastructure with a folk instrument — and one of the few "cozy" games with ...Good7.3
Thimbleweed Park
Adventure gameRon Gilbert and Gary Winnick built a time machine, and it works. Thimbleweed Park is a sharp, well-produced classic point-and-click adventure — provid...Good7.9LEGO 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...Mixed6.5Myst
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...Good7.4inbento
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...Good7.4The Gardens Between
Adventure gameA wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...Good7.6The Big Con
Adventure gameA charming, big-hearted throwback that leans on comedy and warmth more than mechanics — short, funny, and touching, so long as expectations don't incl...Good7.0Silt
Adventure gameSilt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but floaty ...Mixed6.6Yuppie Psycho
Adventure gameA surreal survival-horror with a sharp satirical streak that turns corporate dread into genuine tension, held back by a save system that punishes curi...Good7.7A Little to the Left
Puzzle gameA Little to the Left is a polished, quietly inventive puzzle game that turns tidying household objects into a calm, meditative activity, though a few ...Good7.6Return to Monkey Island
Adventure gameReturn to Monkey Island is a carefully crafted point-and-click adventure that respects its lineage while confidently forging a new path, even with i...Great8.4Grindstone
Puzzle gameCapybara Games' Grindstone is a deceptively deep, compulsively playable puzzle game that turns simple chain-linking into a strategic dance with deat...Great8.8Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Board gameAn ingenious, high-tension party game that forgoes graphical horsepower to create one of the purest, most chaotic, and hilarious tests of communicatio...Great8.5Threes!
Card gameThrees! is a beautifully crafted, endlessly challenging puzzle box that respects players' intelligence and punishes every mistake with a devastating, ...Outstanding9.0Chants of Sennaar
Adventure gameChants of Sennaar builds its puzzles around deduction rather than trial and error, a game that trusts the player's intelligence completely. It turns t...Outstanding9.2Gorogoa
Adventure gameGorogoa is a brief but profound journey that uses perspective-shifting puzzles to tell a story of quiet wonder. Its originality alone earns a strong r...Great8.6Bridge Constructor Portal
Puzzle gameThis unlikely crossover succeeds not as a gimmick, but as a genuinely clever and demanding physics-puzzler that weaponizes Portal's mechanics to creat...Great8.1
