The Best Unforgiving Games for Xbox One

Update : Beyond Doors added at rank #5.
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Will You Snail? (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation.


  • platform
  • unforgiving
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • precision
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • scroller
  • short
  • comedy
  • puzzle
  • non-linear
  • funny
  • story

2

Help Will Come Tomorrow (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Linux

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.


  • survival
  • unforgiving
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • choices
  • narration
  • simulation
  • political
  • historical
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • story

3

Climber: Sky is the Limit (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!


  • immersive
  • unforgiving
  • experience
  • snow
  • survival
  • management
  • simulation
  • nature
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • walking-simulator
  • inventory
  • sport
  • replay-value
  • atmospheric

4

Cracked (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Cracked is a difficult 2D Platformer. Dominate the leaderboards by completing the maps as fast as possible. Explore the abandoned Factory, the desert Pyramid and the jungle Temple.


  • unforgiving
  • attack
  • platform
  • precision
  • time
  • 2d
  • character
  • linear
  • historical
  • customization
  • cartoony
  • score
  • minimalist
  • funny

5

Beyond Doors (2024)

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Caleb woke up in a mystical dimension after experiencing burnout in his job. Door-to-door, guided by enigmatic musical notes, he needs to be reminded of his true calling. Immerse yourself in this mind-bending platformer.


  • platform
  • precision
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • unforgiving
  • atmospheric
  • hand-craft
  • retro
  • colourful
  • fast-paced

6

Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles (2020)

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Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.


  • survival-horror
  • unforgiving
  • roguevania
  • pve
  • lore
  • tps
  • horror

7

.G (2022)

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Avoid meteorites and survive until the end.


  • unforgiving
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • family-friendly
  • hidden-object
  • tutorial
  • linear
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • space
  • flight

8

Flatland Vol.2 (2020)

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In this second episode of the series, Square crosses the most dangerous part of Flatland: the flooded wells. FLATLAND Vol. 2 is a fast-paced hardcore platformer featuring hand-crafted levels and lightning-fast respawns. Run, jump, die, learn, repeat.


  • unforgiving
  • precision
  • platform
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • abstract
  • fast-paced
  • minimalist
  • stealth
  • atmospheric
  • short
  • difficult
  • hardcore

9

SPITLINGS (2020)

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You know what the problem with multiplayer games is, right? The other players! It’s always THEIR FAULT if you lose! We’ve got the perfect game to blame your friends for their incapability: Spitlings! This chaotic action arcade game for up to four players is a modern take on the hardcore classics. You’re in control of a Spitling, a charming rectangular creature with teeth it can spit or use to jump! Makes no sense? Who cares, it’s FUN! Spitlings is a cute but hardcore Arcade game that’s made for playing its hundreds of levels locally/online with friends. Keep playing to unlock new music tracks, unique characters to play with and intense visual themes for certain levels.


  • unforgiving
  • cooperative
  • local
  • 4-player
  • campaign
  • multiplayer
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • arcade
  • colourful
  • party
  • 2d
  • tactical
  • funny

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