The Best Dark Games for Xbox Series X - Page 3

Update : Heretic + Hexen added at rank #48.
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Somber Echoes (2025)

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Playstation 5 j Xbox Series X PC Windows

Hunt the monsters and solve the mysteries of the abandoned mothership floating in vast space to confront your twin sister and prevent her from unleashing a cosmic catastrophe. In this dark fantasy Metroidvania you must explore and find your way through the horrors and kill everything in your way.


  • dark
  • mythology
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • cinematic
  • souls
  • fantasy
  • drama
  • multiple-endings
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • story
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • atmospheric

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White Shadows (2021)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox One

The wolves are watching! Venture through a captivating but brutal dystopia where our young adventurer Ravengirl will travel through this huge city’s brightest highs and delve to its darkest depths on her perilous journey of discovery and finding her destiny where hope seems in short supply.


  • dark
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • cinematic
  • metroidvania
  • action-adventure
  • horror
  • gore
  • story
  • fantasy
  • violent
  • dystopian
  • exploration
  • limbo

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Get To Work (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X

You are poor and bald. Get to Work.


  • narration
  • dynamic
  • comedy
  • dark
  • precision
  • 3d
  • america
  • platform
  • capitalism
  • humor
  • building
  • funny
  • third-person
  • action-adventure
  • realistic

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Source of Madness (2022)

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

Source of Madness is a side-scrolling dark action roguelite set in a twisted Lovecraftian inspired world powered by procedural generation and AI machine learning. Take on the role of a new Acolyte as they embark on a nightmarish odyssey.


  • lovecraftian
  • rogue-like
  • dark
  • roguevania
  • souls
  • fantasy
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • procedural
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • physics

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Evil Wizard (2023)

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

Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG that puts you in the shoes of a former Final Boss. Rise from defeat, rediscover long lost powers, and fight to reclaim your castle from an army of so-called heroes.


  • villain
  • protagonist
  • dark
  • humor
  • cartoony
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • rpg
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action
  • rogue-like
  • top-down

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Super Dark Deception (2022)

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

Death awaits you once again in Super Dark Deception, a fun 2D reimagining of the hit horror maze game, Dark Deception!


  • horror
  • runner
  • humor
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • cartoony
  • lore
  • anime
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • retro
  • demons
  • rpg
  • arcade
  • cute

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Selfloss (2024)

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

Selfloss is an emotional exploration game filled with rich lore, set in a whale-worshipping, Slavic-inspired world. Embark on the journey of the healer, Kazimir, and his magical staff as he fights a mysterious Miasm in search of a ritual to cure his wounded soul.


  • dark
  • fantasy
  • whale-worshiping
  • emotional
  • lore
  • slavic
  • metroidvania
  • puzzle
  • post-apocalyptic
  • magic
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • medieval
  • action-adventure
  • exploration

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Dark Light (2022)

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Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Mac OS Xbox Series X

Mio is a young girl surrounded by death, and after an unexpected accident, she finds out where people go after they die. Maybe Heaven, or Hell...or an Underworld full of demons and mysteries.


  • souls
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • cyberpunk
  • dark
  • gore
  • post-apocalyptic
  • horror
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • violent
  • zombies
  • puzzle
  • adventure

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Beholder 3 (2022)

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

When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying.


  • dystopian
  • political
  • choices
  • dark
  • point-and-click
  • simulation
  • lgbtq
  • multiple-endings
  • humor
  • management
  • isometric
  • nonlinear
  • atmospheric

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Whateverland (2022)

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

Find your way out of a magical prison in this non-linear point'n'click adventure full of mini games and challenges. Get to meet the charismatic Whateverlanders, steal and deceive or be a good boy to discover all the different endings of Vincent's story.


  • dark
  • humor
  • hand-drawn
  • music
  • point-and-click
  • nonlinear
  • multiple-endings
  • turn-based
  • team
  • puzzle
  • narration
  • magic
  • supernatural
  • choices
  • non-linear

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