The Best Manipulation Games for Xbox One

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Touhou Luna Nights (2019)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Touhou Luna Nights is a metroidvania game with stunning 2D graphics and a unique time manipulation mechanic. You play as a maid fighting through a magical world. The game's puzzles and enemies are challenging and imaginative. The game also offers upgrades and new abilities for exploration. Despite the lack of detailed item information and backtracking, Touhou Luna Nights is a top-notch Metroidvania that genre fans should not miss.

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Pros:

• Beautiful graphics
• Smooth gameplay
• Challenging boss fights
• Engaging story
• Impressive sound design

Cons:

• Short playtime
• Familiar game mechanics
• Frustrating save system

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• metroidvania
• faith
• manipulation
• bullet-hell
• beat-em-up
• time
• exploration
• scroller
• anime
• boss-fight
• pixel
• platform
• action-adventure
• 2d

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Good match + 2 Bad match - 3

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COGEN: Sword of Rewind (2022)

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73

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Rewind, rethink, redo. COGEN is a brand-new kind of 2D action game where there's no time for death.

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• dynamic
• 2d
• souls
• swordplay
• manipulation
• tutorial
• time
• attack
• score
• metroidvania
• scroller
• futuristic
• narration
• platform
• mech

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Good match + 3 Bad match - 2

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Iron Danger (2020)

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75

Review score

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

Iron Danger is a tactical combat game with a unique time manipulation mechanic. A never before seen combination that blends the tactical depth of turn-based games with the exciting action of real-time games.

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• tactical
• manipulation
• turn-based
• combat
• steampunk
• real-time
• rpg
• fight
• fantasy
• time
• role-play
• action
• mythology
• puzzle

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Good match + 8 Bad match - 6

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Lemnis Gate (2021)

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86

Review score

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Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5 Xbox Series X PC Windows

Lemnis Gate is the revolutionary turn-based combat strategy FPS taking place in a time loop. Master the unique abilities of powerful deep-space operatives and compete in mind-bending four-dimensional battles.

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• time
• shooter
• manipulation
• first-person
• pvp
• fps
• tactical
• character
• travel
• arena
• class
• 3d
• competitive
• real-time
• customization

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Good match + 4 Bad match

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A Day (2021)

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wii u PC Windows Xbox One

In A Day you'll be able to control 8 different characters in a 2D side-scrolling open map: give them life by chaining their actions, rewind the time and reach for the highest score possible! This day is yours to make!

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• time
• manipulation
• puzzle
• horror
• attack
• score
• relaxing
• funny
• action-adventure
• platform
• time-management
• hidden-object
• perspective
• romance
• casual

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Good match + 1 Bad match - 4

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Rayland 2 (2022)

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59

Review score

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

Welcome to Rayland. The inhabitants of this island use the energy coming from the laser beams to survive and to transport this energy they use the repeating cubes.

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• puzzle
• clicker
• futuristic
• manipulation
• point-and-click
• minimalist
• casual
• isometric
• strategy
• logic
• relaxing
• 3d
• sci-fi
• grid
• family-friendly

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Clocker (2019)

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Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

Clocker is a time themed puzzle game. The game narrates the story by using dual protagonists. Players can advance the story in the perspectives of both the Father and the Daughter and the mystery will be unfolded step by step. Unique time-based puzzle solving mechanics, fancy hand drawn art style and innumerable interesting puzzles with a gripping story. All these elements are waiting for you in Clocker.

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• time
• manipulation
• emotional
• hand-drawn
• puzzle
• multiple-endings
• short
• platform
• 2d
• cartoony
• travel
• thought-provoking

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Taimumari (2015)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Linux PC Windows

Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

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• time
• manipulation
• platform
• pixel
• anime
• 2d
• character
• retro
• fantasy
• scroller
• action-adventure
• single-player
• action
• subscription
• cute

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Good match Bad match - 1

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Eternal Threads (2022)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.

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• time
• manipulation
• investigation
• choices
• emotional
• travel
• thriller
• story
• fiction

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Evergate (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Xbox One

Enter the afterlife. Overcome fate. Reclaim what was lost. This challenging puzzle platformer weaves a heart-warming story through stunning artwork, emotive music and genre-bending mechanics.

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• platform
• 2d
• hand-drawn
• soundtrack
• music
• emotional
• time
• manipulation
• linear
• puzzle
• child
• colourful
• story
• boston
• atmospheric

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Good match Bad match - 1