The Best Xbox Series X|S Games to Play Now
After a whirlwind end to 2024 and a strong start to 2025 that included the best Call of Duty in years , a fantastic Silent Hill 2 remake, a new Dragon Age , a new Assassin's Creed , STALKER 2 , Metaphor: ReFantazio (AKA IGN's Game of the Year 2024) and a stunningly great Indiana Jones game , among others, it's about to get a lot tougher to pick your favorite Xbox Series X/S games. Here's our staff's list of the 25 best games on the Xbox Series X|S – meaning they were either released directly for this generation of Xbox consoles or have been updated to take advantage of their improved resolution, frame rate, and other features. Note that to avoid the scourge of recency bias, we’ve cut off new additions as of the end of September 2024, since anything more recent than that is still a bit too new to rank. But don't worry, they’ll be considered for future rankings! This is NOT an attempt at an “objective” ranking. But what do we mean by “best?” To be very clea...