The Best 1990s Games for Xbox Series X - Page 2

Update : Recycle Bin Battle added at rank #19.
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Prison City (2023)

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Nintendo Switch l Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle techno-terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.


  • dystopian
  • retro
  • 1990s
  • crime-ridden
  • 1980s
  • platform
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • capitalism
  • side-scrolling
  • cinematic
  • sci-fi
  • pixel
  • action

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SANYA (2024)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X PC Windows Xbox One Mac OS

A playful narrative adventure about the warmth of fleeting childhood memories: about a little boy named Sanya, rescuing a stray puppy, making true friends, and engaging in many exciting adventures in a small town set in the achingly strange and nostalgic period of the 90s.


  • nostalgia
  • dog
  • 1990s
  • 2.5d
  • narration
  • emotional
  • point-and-click
  • linear
  • narrative
  • hand-drawn
  • adventure
  • choices
  • family-friendly
  • exploration
  • atmospheric

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Guts 'n Grunts (2023)

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Playstation 4 l Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X IOS iPhone PC Windows Mac OS j

Inspired by games like Contra and Turrican, Guts 'n Grunts is a mid-paced action game with lots of shooting, swimming, and rolling. Find power-ups. Earn upgrades. Fight for pig freedom!


  • 2d
  • robots
  • scroller
  • 1990s
  • platform
  • post-apocalyptic
  • mature
  • satire
  • shooter
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • action
  • adventure
  • sci-fi

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Outbreak The Fedora Files: What Lydia Knows (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch j

Something is foul in the city of Cypress Ridge. Uncover the truth in this narrative rich visual novel taking place just moments before a full blown undead epidemic.


  • dark
  • america
  • comic
  • humor
  • 1990s
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • detective
  • emotional
  • book
  • hand-drawn
  • cartoony
  • interactive
  • anime
  • drama

15

Alisa (2021)

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Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Linux Xbox Series X j Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Alisa is a classic late-90s style horror-themed action adventure game set in a fantasy universe inspired on the 1920s. You play as an Elite Royal Agent called Alisa, who wakes up in a strange Victorian mansion and must find her way out while being haunted by materialized / mechanized doll-like humanoids. Explore classic survival horror gameplay with real pre-rendered backgrounds, eccentric currency and item shop, unique player stats boosts, weapon load-outs, a large variety of enemies and locations and surprises around every corner.


What we like:
  • Nostalgic survival horror experience
  • Sound and graphical design inspired by classic titles
  • Interesting story and characters
  • Optional side missions and collectibles
  • Varied enemy designs and difficulty levels
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive currency system reliant on killing enemies

  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • gothic
  • historical
  • alternate
  • old-school
  • military
  • horror
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • pixel
  • pve
  • atmospheric

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Like No Other: The Legend Of The Twin Books (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X

Dan is a bumbling first-time adventurer who risks everything to solve the legend of the twin books by exploring the abandoned town of Red Pines.


  • cartoony
  • clicker
  • walking-simulator
  • point-and-click
  • 2.5d
  • fiction
  • dungeon-crawler
  • 1990s
  • interactive
  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • exploration
  • cyberpunk
  • comedy

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The Abandoned Planet (2024)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Nintendo Switch j Xbox Series X Linux Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art


  • point-and-click
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • 1990s
  • space
  • exploration
  • clicker
  • sci-fi
  • futuristic
  • linear
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • hidden-object
  • story
  • adventure

18

Breaking Bricks (2024)

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j Xbox Series X PC Windows

Brick game space themed.


  • 1990s
  • 2d
  • space
  • linear
  • colourful
  • cooperative
  • local
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • casual
  • controller-support
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • retro
  • single-player

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Recycle Bin Battle (2025)

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PC Windows Linux Xbox One Xbox Series X j

Reycle Bin Battle is an arcade puzzle game based on 3 differents gameplay. Make combo with rubishes to make ball, use ball in a breakout to get energy and finally use energy to shoot Kaiju coming from outer space.


  • match-three
  • on-rails
  • breakout
  • arcade
  • 1990s
  • physics
  • production
  • 3d
  • attack
  • score
  • casual
  • shooter

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Go! Go! PogoGirl (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Jump on your pogo stick and bounce, bounce, bounce! Go! Go! PogoGirl is a dynamic, cute and wholesome platformer about a girl and her pogo stick. Bounce your way through the world, collect gems and then bounce some more!


  • platform
  • 1990s
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • retro
  • precision
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • cute
  • nature

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