Best Xbox Series X|S & One Games
Expert-reviewed Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One games, scored out of 10.
- Reviewed
- 103
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...Good7.1Age 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...Good7.5Wildmender
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...Mixed6.5Loot 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 ...Mixed5.8SteamWorld Build
Simulation gameSteamWorld Build is too gentle for its own good. The link between its frontier town and the mine beneath it is a real design idea, but the game hands ...Mixed6.5Pirates Outlaws
Card gamePirates Outlaws leans so heavily on Slay the Spire's skeleton that its own identity rests almost entirely on one idea, and harsh difficulty spikes can...Mixed6.8A 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...Good7.2
El 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...Mixed5.9Curious Expedition
RPG gameMaschinen-Mensch's roguelike expedition sim earns its genre mashup through brutal, meaningful resource management. It stumbles on repetition and luck,...Good7.3Aliens: 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 ...Good7.1Black 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...Good7.3Age of Mythology: Retold
Strategy gameRetold rebuilds the engine without sanding down the personality — a 22-year-old RTS given modern hands and eyes while keeping the lightning bolts, Cyc...Good7.6Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
Action gameCook, Serve, Delicious! 3?! is a demanding, content-heavy action game priced like an indie title — a hundred-hour typing test disguised as a restauran...Good7.7Surviving Mars
Simulation gameFor its opening stretch, Surviving Mars is the most quietly tense builder on Steam — a game about oxygen math and severed power cables where one dust ...Good7.0Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager
RPG gameA clever inversion of the dungeon crawl that turns evil into a middle-management job — sharp, funny, and mechanically tight early on, until its shallo...Good7.0Kaiju Wars
Strategy gameKaiju Wars has one of the sharpest ideas in recent turn-based strategy — you never kill the monster, only delay it — but long missions, a punishing di...Mixed6.9Windjammers 2
Sports gameWindjammers 2 is a mechanically sharp two-player duel with the readable depth of a fighting game and little of the execution tax — but thin solo conte...Good7.4Torment: Tides of Numenera
Adventure gameinXile built one of the best-written RPGs of its era, then bolted on a combat system that undermines it. If you read games the way you read novels, th...Good7.0Songs of Silence
Adventure gameChimera Entertainment's Songs of Silence pairs genuinely arresting Art Nouveau art and a Hitoshi Sakimoto score with one legitimately fresh combat i...Mixed6.3Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
RPG gameSquare Enix has given one of the most literate, mechanically dense tactical RPGs ever made a remaster it deserved — voiced, redrawn, and respectful of...Great8.4Tropico 6
Simulation gameTropico 6 is a mechanically generous city builder — an archipelago-spanning dictator sim with real political teeth and a wicked sense of humor. It's h...Good7.1Freshly 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 ...Good7.3Jagged Alliance 3
Action gameHaemimont Games has done what three studios before it couldn't — made a Jagged Alliance that earns the name. Sharp turn-based combat and a superbly ...Good7.7
