The Best Dystopian Games for Xbox One - Page 2

Update : Slave Zero X added at rank #5.
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The Plane Effect (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5

Players take on the role of Solo, a lonely office worker who's trying to get home to his family after his last day of work. Somewhat worryingly, it seems Solo experiences some trouble remembering his family, and also has to contend with the shifting balance of space and time.


  • dystopian
  • 3d
  • isometric
  • walking-simulator
  • stylized
  • atmospheric
  • narration
  • non-sense
  • puzzle
  • narrative
  • point-and-click
  • horror-mystery
  • futuristic
  • adventure

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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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Orten Was The Case (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Orten Was The Case - A free movement puzzle/adventure game where you play as a youngster stuck in a time loop with the simple task of saving the world from literal destruction.


  • manipulation
  • time
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • humor
  • conspiracy
  • time-management
  • dystopian
  • choices
  • mystery
  • detective
  • dark
  • open-world

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Billy 101 (2023)

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

Meet Billy, a robot who is tired of his work on the production lines, who then decided to blow up everything and everyone in order to make his own choices.


  • robots
  • platform
  • 2d
  • dystopian
  • scroller
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • futuristic
  • cute
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • conversation

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Synergia - NextGen Edition (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Journey through a cyberpunk setting of neon-lit corruption. Meet 20+ characters with personal histories woven into the narrative. Make key choices that impact the story and lead to multiple endings. Includes the full "SUNRISE" expansion.


  • cyberpunk
  • dystopian
  • romance
  • visual-novel
  • war
  • multiple-endings

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Gearshifters (2021)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Steer, drift, spin, smash and gun through waves of enemy vehicles. Go to war against extreme machine bosses. Build up and tune your tactical loadout of car mods, defences and weaponry for each treacherous transport mission. Drive. Destroy. Get Paid. Upgrade!


  • rogue-like
  • dystopian
  • driving
  • post-apocalyptic
  • performance
  • perma-death
  • shoot-em-up
  • vehicle
  • scroller
  • racing
  • bullet-hell
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • combat
  • boss

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We Happy Few (2018)

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Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 4

From the independent studio that brought you Contrast, We Happy Few is an action/adventure game set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England. Hide, fight and conform your way out of this delusional, Joy-obsessed world.


  • survival
  • stealth
  • dystopian
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • narrative
  • alternate
  • story
  • combat

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Solace State (2023)

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Can you retain your humanity while fighting against a corporate biotech conspiracy? Play as the young hacker Chloe who confronts political plots as she fights for her friends and her neighbors. Your choices in building up relationships and communities can revolutionize into hope or heartbreak.


  • transhumanism
  • lgbtq
  • cyberpunk
  • life
  • dystopian
  • visual-novel
  • choices
  • simulation
  • point-and-click
  • multiple-endings
  • story
  • political
  • fiction
  • sci-fi

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The Surge (2017)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.


  • souls
  • sci-fi
  • boss
  • rpg
  • dystopian
  • combat
  • horizontal
  • robots
  • crafting
  • arpg
  • action
  • boss-fight
  • fight
  • vertical
  • futuristic

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The Dark World: KARMA (2023)

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

This is a first-person story-driven psychological horror game. Delve into this dark and strange world with an investigation officer from Roam to find traces of lost memories and fulfill your destiny.


  • horror
  • dystopian
  • walking-simulator
  • psychedelic
  • immersive
  • psychological
  • experimental
  • vision
  • thriller
  • cold
  • multiple-endings
  • lore
  • atmospheric
  • first-person
  • 3d

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