The Best Violent Games for Xbox One

Update : Cookie Cutter added at rank #2.
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Bloodroots (2020)

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

In Bloodroots, you're Mr. Wolf, a man betrayed and left for dead, seeking vengeance. Use everything around you to choreograph ultra-violent combos in a twisted Western revenge tale. Experiment with different objects as weapons, enjoy the smooth gameplay and amazing music, and compete for fame on worldwide leaderboards.


What we like:
  • Satisfying and fluid gameplay
  • Unique use of objects as weapons
  • Compelling story with deranged characters
  • Great music and visuals
  • Encourages creative problem-solving
What could be improved:
  • Limited player freedom
  • Can become repetitive towards the end

  • violent
  • western
  • top-down
  • fast-paced
  • action
  • platform
  • combo
  • isometric
  • blood
  • beat-em-up
  • gore
  • cartoony
  • hack-and-slash
  • animal
  • difficult

2

Cookie Cutter (2023)

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Xbox One Android Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Love turns to rage and chainsaws in Cookie Cutter, a totally unique hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania. Become Cherry, a violent android on a rage-filled quest to save her creator.


  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • blood
  • comedy
  • soundtrack
  • violent
  • gore
  • dystopian
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • gothic
  • rage
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • combat

3

Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)

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

A live-action, interactive action movie following Mia, a plucky barmaid whose life is thrown into chaos when a mysterious woman turns up at her workplace, on the run from a group of violent thugs and unable to speak English.


  • choices
  • fmv
  • interactive
  • drama
  • violent
  • immersive
  • cinematic
  • buddy-action
  • emotional
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • martial
  • simulation

4

Don't Be Afraid (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4

Don't Be Afraid” is an adventure horror game, that allows you to personate a boy, kidnapped by a psychopath. You have to survive, escape and find out how you were kidnapped. Exploring the gigantic, mysterious house of your torturer, you will soon reveal many secrets, hidden inside it’s walls…


  • horror
  • violent
  • survival-horror
  • walking-simulator
  • psychological
  • thriller
  • gore
  • survival

5

Welcome to Elk (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Xbox One stadia Nintendo Switch Linux

Welcome to Elk is a biographical adventure set on an island like no other, where every character you encounter has a story to tell. From the weird and wonderful to the dark and desperate, all the tales told on Elk are based on true stories of life on the road less traveled.


  • narrative
  • hand-drawn
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • documentary
  • local
  • story
  • drama
  • violent
  • pretend
  • golf
  • villain
  • colourful
  • trading
  • exploration

6

PERISH (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5

PERISH is a stylish 1-4 player FPS with a cross to bear. Slay hordes of creatures on the black sands of Purgatory and sell their gold-stained corpses to craven priests. Kill magnificent bosses and use the proceeds to gain entrance to Elysium, a place of cosmic revelations.


  • first-person
  • gore
  • fps
  • shooter
  • rogue-like
  • 1-4-player
  • cooperative
  • violent
  • demons
  • boss
  • pve
  • blood
  • four-player
  • card
  • mature

7

Mutant Football League (2017)

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Playstation 4 Xbox One PC Windows

Mutants and monsters unleash maniacal carnage on the gridiron in this crazy gore fest of arcade-style football. Packed full of humor, intense online multiplayer action, and strategy.


  • football
  • american
  • sport
  • violent
  • gore
  • local
  • blood
  • tongue-through-cheek
  • 4-player
  • arcade
  • god-game
  • cooperative
  • funny
  • multiplayer
  • over-the-top

8

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015)

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Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.


  • top-down
  • violent
  • shooter
  • gore
  • narrative
  • difficult
  • stealth
  • retro
  • crime
  • action
  • pixel
  • psychedelic
  • combat
  • cover
  • twitch

9

SturmFront: The Mutant War - Ubel Edition (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 wii u

Arcade action game in the vein of Commando, Ikari Warriors and Shock Troopers, mixed with bullet hell elements. You play as an experimental cyborg battle unit fighting against unrelenting mutant hordes to a soundtrack of aggressive heavy metal and psychedelic electronica.


  • gore
  • violent
  • all-action
  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • action
  • boss
  • old-school
  • retro
  • recreation
  • scrolling
  • aliens
  • top-down

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Circus Pocus (2021)

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Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows

Clowns are very strange characters. Many people like their funny performances in the circus, and someone is afraid of them like fire. Circus Pocus - will tell you a terrible story that unfolded in the walls of the old circus.


  • violent
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • top-down
  • action
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • obstacle
  • puzzle
  • difficult
  • exploration
  • arcade
  • open-source
  • privacy-policy
  • boss

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