The Best Psychological Games for Xbox One

Update : Horrific Xanatorium added at rank #40.
Here are our 10 Best Psychological Games for Xbox One:
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Martha Is Dead (2022)

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Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows Xbox One

Martha Is Dead is a dark first-person psychological thriller, set in 1944 Italy, that blurs the lines between reality, superstition and the tragedy of war.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • thriller
  • narrative
  • narration
  • walking-simulator
  • war

2

Afterdream (2023)

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Get lost in a lucid dream, bending the lines between reality and fiction. Utilize the strange camera to navigate through the ghosts' mysterious residence. Find the purpose of your nocturnal visit in a vivid and dreamlike setting.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • emotional
  • walking-simulator
  • narration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • linear
  • story
  • surreal
  • fiction

3

Loretta (2023)

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Android Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.


  • thriller
  • choices
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • america
  • noir
  • multiple-endings
  • crime
  • visual-novel
  • fiction
  • pixel
  • narration
  • drama
  • adventure
  • interactive

4

Shape (2023)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One Android PC Windows

A minimalist style but inside a complex-minded With connecting word mechanism, you can make a rule for your rooms and solve the problem. Solve the puzzle and go to the door to the next room. explore new mechanism


  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • minimalist
  • surreal
  • exploration
  • psychological
  • narration
  • philosophical
  • walking-simulator
  • 2d
  • psychedelic
  • text
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • emotional

5

OMORI (2020)

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

Explore a strange world full of colorful friends and foes. When the time comes, the path you’ve chosen will determine your fate... and perhaps the fate of others as well.


  • psychological
  • horror
  • rpg
  • rpgmaker
  • pixel
  • multiple-endings
  • hand-drawn
  • turn-based
  • story
  • japanese
  • stylized
  • party
  • dream
  • colourful

6

Smile For Me (2019)

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

A heartbroken clown, wayward souls, and juicy mechanical lips. As “The Big Event" draws near, help the troubled residents of the Habitat and de-mask the mysterious Doctor Habit... before it's too late.


  • horror
  • lgbtq
  • fmv
  • point-and-click
  • conversation
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • linear
  • hand-drawn
  • multiple-endings
  • cute
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • comedy

7

Ikai (2022)

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

Fear and anxiety prevail after the darkest tales from Japanese folklore come to life in this first-person psychological horror game. Set in a feudal era, Ikai revolves around the priestess of a shrine struggling to defeat the spirits of her past and her present.


  • horror
  • psychological
  • walking-simulator
  • survival-horror
  • thriller
  • first-person
  • dark
  • drawing
  • exploration

8

The Signifier (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 Mac OS

This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.


  • surreal
  • psychological
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • tech-noir
  • horror
  • dark
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • choices
  • psychology
  • exploration

9

The Tartarus Key (2023)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

There’s no way out for Alex Young who wakes up to find herself locked in a strange mansion filled with puzzles, traps, and cameras following her every move. Whether she and her companions live or die, and find the truth behind their abduction, is up to you in this first-person mystery thriller.


  • horror
  • psychological
  • puzzle
  • room
  • thriller
  • escape
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • lovecraftian
  • detective
  • first-person
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • exploration

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GLASS (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Glass is a 3D, first-person psychological thriller that will lead you through an increasingly dark and volatile world in search of an enigmatic author and his mysterious, tragic past. What you uncover will change you forever.


  • narration
  • walking-simulator
  • dynamic
  • psychological
  • surreal
  • thriller
  • linear
  • atmospheric
  • hidden-object
  • 3d
  • first-person
  • dark
  • investigation
  • puzzle
  • mystery

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