Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 186
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
Ten Dates
Adventure gameA well-cast live-action speed-dating romcom whose bite-sized dates keep every connection shallow and the package thin; the choice engine is clever, bu...Mixed6.1Age of Wonders 4
RPG gameAge of Wonders 4 has an unusually expressive faction creator for the 4X genre and turn-based battles that reward real tactical thinking. The opponent ...Good7.4Long 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...Good7.5Fallout Shelter
RPG gameFallout Shelter's early hours are a sharp, funny management sim, but the vault eventually runs itself and the game turns into timer-watching and chore...Mixed6.8Kraken 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...Good7.1Loot 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 ...Mixed5.8Kaichu: 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,...Good7.3
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
RPG gameOblivion Remastered rebuilds Cyrodiil in Unreal Engine 5 with evident care while preserving the creaky, charming 2006 skeleton underneath. Untouched d...Good7.6Unexplored
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...Good7.3SIMULACRA
Adventure gameSIMULACRA weaponizes the most intimate object you own, turning a stranger's lock screen into an unnerving detective story — and it stumbles when it re...Good7.4Moonglow 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...Mixed5.9Black Book
Adventure gameBlack Book is a deck-building RPG whose cards are incantations drawn from 19th-century Ural folk charms, wrapped in a grief story with teeth. The co...Good7.3Brok 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...Mixed6.0Hogwarts Legacy
Action gameAvalanche Software built the most convincing videogame recreation of a fictional place in years, then padded it out with busywork and hung a forgettab...Good7.2The 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...Good7.0Dragon Quest Builders 2
Action gameSquare Enix took the one thing Minecraft never had — a reason to build — and wrapped a lengthy, genuinely good RPG around it. The opening hours will t...Good7.6Hand of Fate 2
Action gameHand of Fate 2 pairs a genuinely clever card-table structure and a superbly written Dealer with real-time combat that never earns the screen time it d...Good7.3Underhero
Adventure gameUnderhero has one genuinely clever structural idea — turn-based combat with the turns ripped out — and some of the sharpest comic writing in the indie...Mixed6.9Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Adventure gameAtlus took a mechanically sharp, narratively hollow JRPG and gave it the story it always deserved, plus a proper PC port. Newcomers should buy it with...Great8.2Mortal Shell
Action gameA short, sharp Soulslike built around one mechanic worth the price of entry, wrapped in a world that runs out of ideas well before the credits. Harden...Mixed6.5Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree
Action gameA gorgeous 2.5D soulslike padded well past what its content can carry. The art, score and writing are genuinely excellent, but recycled enemies, a blo...Mixed6.4Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
Adventure gameA political RPG built on a card game, with real writing and real consequences — but the battles go easy on Gwent veterans and the mobile release fumbl...Good7.3
