The Best 2D Games for Xbox Series X - Page 3

Update : Mina the Hollower added at rank #30.
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Shinobi: Art of Vengeance (2025)

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

The iconic SHINOBI returns in an all-new 2D action platformer with a unique hand-drawn look created by the team behind the hit brawler Streets of Rage 4.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • ninja
  • metroidvania
  • action
  • hack-and-slash
  • hand-drawn

22

One Hand Clapping (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 IOS iPhone PC Windows Xbox Series X stadia Android

One Hand Clapping is a vocal 2D platformer. Solve puzzles, by singing or humming into your microphone, and find confidence in the power of your voice as it changes the world around you.


  • platform
  • rhythm
  • 2d
  • music
  • puzzle
  • voice
  • control
  • experience
  • education
  • family-friendly

23

BIOMORPH (2024)

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

BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.


  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • platform
  • exploration
  • lore
  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • multiple-endings
  • combat
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • non-linear

24

CrushBorgs (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 j Xbox Series X

"Run and Gun" oldschool single-player platformer with NES aesthetics, including an authentic 8-bit chiptune.


  • 1990s
  • retro
  • platform
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • robots
  • scroller
  • shooter
  • single-player
  • arcade
  • pixel
  • action
  • boss

25

Space Adventure Cobra - The Awakening (2025)

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

Play as Cobra, the space pirate, in an action platformer. Along with Lady Armaroid, your loyal partner, and equipped with your iconic Psychogun, you must solve a mystery that could threaten the entire universe.


  • platform
  • anime
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • pirates
  • hero
  • 1980s
  • space
  • narration
  • action
  • 2-player
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • futuristic

26

INAYAH - Life after Gods (2025)

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

INAYAH – Life After Gods is a thrilling action-platformer with metroidvania elements. Immerse yourself in a story with multiple choices, explore diverse biomes, face more than 20 bosses, and develop your character with a unique progression system.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • hand-drawn
  • metroidvania
  • scroller
  • anime
  • boss
  • cyberpunk
  • fight
  • combat
  • boss-fight
  • futuristic
  • controller-support
  • tech

27

Night Slashers: Remake (2024)

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

Night Slashers is a pulse-pounding, horror-themed beat 'em up game, in a nightmarish world filled with bloodthirsty creatures and unspeakable horrors.


  • beat-em-up
  • arcade
  • remake
  • horror
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • zombies
  • fight
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • pulse-pounding
  • post-apocalyptic
  • supernatural
  • comic
  • belt-scrolling

28

Volgarr the Viking 2 (2024)

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80
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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

A hardcore, 2D action-platformer where only precision can keep you from death.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • hack-and-slash
  • scroller
  • precision
  • fantasy
  • souls
  • mythology
  • hand-drawn
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • 1980s-arcade
  • fine-tuned
  • magic
  • dark

29

Morkull Ragast's Rage (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A 2D video game that combines platforming and action with a touch of exploration in which we control Morkull, God of death and darkness and lord of the Ragast, whose main mechanics lies in the breaking of the fourth wall, which will allow Morkull to communicate with the player in various ways.


  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • nonlinear
  • hack-and-slash
  • comic
  • hand-drawn
  • scroller
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • book
  • fantasy
  • controller-support

30

Mina the Hollower (2026)

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Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Nintendo Switch 2 Mac OS Linux

Take control of Mina, a renowned Hollower hurtled into a desperate mission to rescue a cursed island. Whip foes, burrow through the ground, and explore a pixel-perfect world in Mina the Hollower, a brand new game from the developers who brought you Shovel Knight!


  • gothic
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • top-down
  • fantasy
  • pixel
  • science
  • souls
  • pixel-perfect
  • horror
  • dark
  • controller-support
  • colourful
  • screens

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