The Best Action platform Games for Xbox One - Page 5

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Moonscars (2022)

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

Moonscars is a 2D souls-like, non-linear platformer that marks the debut of developer, Black Mermaid. Play as Grey Irma, a "Clayborn" with a head full of questions and an eyeful of stunning pixel art. Experience the mystery of Moonscars while exploring themes of identity. Enjoy fluid and gratifying combat with melee moves, special attacks, witcheries and amulet stones.


What we like:
  • Beautiful pixel art
  • Well written story
  • Excellent voice work
  • Satisfying parry system
  • Great use of light to create silhouette-like foregrounds
  • Unique enemies with visual cues
  • Stunning soundtrack with choir vocals
  • Replay value through side quests and trophy hunting
What could be improved:
  • Trial and error approach can make some boss fights difficult

  • souls
  • boss-fight
  • platform
  • boss
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • combat
  • pixel
  • gothic
  • fight
  • action
  • challenging
  • difficult

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Devious Dungeon 2 (2019)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 vita PC Windows

Devious Dungeon 2 is a medieval-focused action platformer with RPG-styled upgrades and procedurally generated levels. It is said that great adventures await behind the walls of this dark castle. A dark castle filled with dungeons, danger, and loot!


  • rpg
  • platform
  • dungeon
  • fantasy
  • medieval
  • adventure
  • procedural
  • rogue-like
  • action
  • pixel
  • boss-fight
  • dungeon-crawler
  • retro
  • dark
  • 2d

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Ufouria: The Saga 2 (2024)

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Xbox Series X/s Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Explore the unique and wacky world of SUNSOFT's Ufouria in this exploration-based side-scrolling game. The levels' terrain change each time you play with new secrets to explore. Be charmed, comforted and tickled by the fluffy felt-like remake of the strange-but-cute world of Ufouria!


  • arts-and-crafts
  • metroid
  • rogue-like
  • platform
  • exploration
  • recreation
  • roguevania
  • side-scrolling
  • action
  • puyo
  • retro
  • metroidvania
  • boss
  • action-adventure
  • underwater

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Tomb Raider: Definitive Survivor Trilogy (2020)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X

Discover the origins of Shulk as he and his companions clash against a seemingly-unstoppable mechanical menace. Wield a future-seeing blade, chain together attacks, and carefully position your party members in strategic, real-time combat as you journey across a massive world.


  • puzzle
  • adventure
  • stealth
  • exploration
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • combat
  • underwater
  • shooter
  • cover
  • narrative
  • survival
  • third-person

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Smelter (2021)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Smelter is a real time strategy-action platformer hybrid inspired by classic games of the 16-bit era. Players play as Eve, who teams up with the mysterious armor, Smelter, in her search for Adam. Expand Smelter’s fortifications throughout the various domains of the Rumbly Lands watched over by the Guardians and Watchers. Defend against onslaughts of enemies, discover lost ruins, meet new and eccentric characters and grow stronger before diving into pulse pounding, 2D side-scrolling action platformer levels. - Combines the methodical planning of real time strategy games with the energy of action platformers. - Bespoke handcrafted pixel art - Three different Elemental skill sets, each with their own unique movement, attack and defense skills you’ll need to fight monsters, traverse levels, and solve puzzles. - Three unique Domains with their own memorable stories, stages, side characters, enemies and bosses


  • platform
  • strategy
  • side-scrolling
  • 2d
  • top-down
  • empire
  • action
  • dune
  • real-time
  • anime
  • mmo
  • twin-stick
  • skill

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Salt and Sanctuary (2016)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Explore a haunting, punishing island in this stylized 2D action RPG. Salt and Sanctuary combines fast and brutal 2D combat with richly developed RPG mechanics in a cursed realm of forgotten cities, blood-soaked dungeons, and desecrated monuments.


  • souls
  • platform
  • boss
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • castlevania
  • cooperative
  • man
  • action
  • side-scrolling
  • gore

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Shadow of the Orient (2024)

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

Shadow of the Orient is a 2d pixel art action platformer where you play as a young warrior named Xiaolang who must venture across the orient fighting hordes of Samurai warriors and mythical creatures in an attempt to rescue the kidnapped children of the orient and face off against the dark lord.


  • platform
  • beat-em-up
  • martial
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • arts
  • swordplay
  • foreign
  • pixel
  • adventure
  • action
  • ninja
  • arcade

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9 Years of Shadows (2023)

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(Nintendo Switch) Nintendo Switch PC Windows (Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s Playstation 4 Xbox One) Playstation 5 Android j IOS iPhone (IOS iPhone) Xbox Series X Xbox One

9 Years of Shadows is a metroidvania game with a good plot and beautiful graphics. You play as Europa, exploring Talos Castle to remove the curse that caused the world to lose its color and emotions. With elemental armors and escalating complexity in Europa's powers, the game is a delightful experience for fans of the genre.


What we like:
  • Solid mechanics
  • Beautiful graphics and music
  • Escalating complexity in Europa's powers
  • Unique elemental armors
  • Good plot
What could be improved:
  • Minor bugs and glitches
  • Environmental puzzles lack intricacy
  • No fast travel
  • Unskippable cutscenes
  • Game might be too easy

  • metroidvania
  • boss
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • scroller
  • platform
  • boss-fight
  • anime
  • story
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • action
  • fantasy
  • underwater
  • cute

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Beyond the Ice Palace 2 (2025)

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

Arise from the dead as the 'Cursed King' in an enthralling action platformer. Wield the chains that once imprisoned you to vanquish foes and traverse your fallen kingdom. Uncover hidden areas, strategically level up, and reclaim your throne by banishing colossal bosses!


  • platform
  • 2d
  • precision
  • metroidvania
  • vampire
  • dark
  • gothic
  • action
  • fantasy
  • visual-novel
  • exploration
  • action-adventure

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Hyper Light Drifter (2016)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

Hyper Light Drifter is an atmospheric action RPG set in a gorgeous pixel art world with a superb score. You are a Drifter fighting your way through enemies while piecing together the story of the world around you.

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What we like:
  • Atmospheric soundtrack
  • Gorgeous visuals
  • Superb gameplay
  • Unique Zelda-like experience
What could be improved:
  • Difficulty spikes when there are too many enemies around you

  • pixel
  • boss
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • post-apocalyptic
  • narrative
  • exploration
  • dungeon
  • rpg
  • difficult
  • action
  • platform
  • battle
  • challenging
  • retro

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