The Best Nonlinear Games for Xbox One - Page 2

Update : The Mobius Machine added at rank #11.
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The Mobius Machine (2024)

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j PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.


  • metroidvania
  • nonlinear
  • shooter
  • scroller
  • twin-stick
  • pve
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • space
  • action-adventure
  • aliens
  • robots
  • 3d
  • open-world
  • local

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Oliver (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android

You are a Crash Test Dummy. Your goal: pass a test simulation that no other dummy has survived before. Move through a nonlinear world filled with though challenges, dangerous enemies, tricky puzzles and epic bosses. And please don't die like the others, would you?


  • underground
  • nonlinear
  • metroidvania
  • 2.5d
  • scroller
  • underwater
  • retro
  • cooking
  • platform
  • stylized
  • abstract
  • 1990s
  • minimalist
  • space
  • education

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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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Bot Gaiden (2022)

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

Bot Gaiden is a vibrant 2D platformer built for speed. Take control of ninjabots Robyu and Bytron as they seek to recover the golden skulls from the hands of the mysterious Giorqio and his band of hench-bots. Race to the finish, because bosses get stronger with time.


  • comic
  • swordplay
  • nonlinear
  • cartoony
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • ninja
  • platform
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • family-friendly
  • robots

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Manifold (2021)

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

The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.


  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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Forest Grove (2023)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

In Forest Grove, a teenage heiress has gone missing. Foul play is suspected. Uncover a cast of characters, collect evidence, and find the truth in this futuristic detective game!


  • detective
  • silent
  • mystery
  • protagonist
  • crime
  • lore
  • nonlinear
  • investigation
  • logic
  • crime-fighting
  • walking-simulator
  • immersive
  • exploration
  • drama
  • story

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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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Skeletons (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Regurgitated back into a cursed and dying world, you must fight and explore to ascend the tower. But be warned, time and life isn't on your side.


  • perma-death
  • nonlinear
  • action-adventure
  • first-person
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • exploration
  • magic
  • fps
  • medieval
  • horror
  • shooter
  • mystery

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Xbox Series X/s

Discover the vast Chernobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chernobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.


  • post-apocalyptic
  • first-person
  • nonlinear
  • lore
  • open-world
  • immersive
  • shooter
  • fps
  • survival-horror
  • cinematic
  • survival
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • atmospheric
  • sci-fi

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Even the Ocean (2016)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Mac OS PC Windows

The game includes platforming and story elements, putting the player in the role of Aliph, a Power Plant engineer working for the game's central city of Whiteforge.


  • 2d
  • platform
  • beautiful
  • philosophical
  • nonlinear
  • capitalism
  • scroller
  • lgbtq
  • stylized
  • nature
  • hand-drawn
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • action-adventure
  • story

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