The Best Cinematic Games for Xbox Series X

Update : Puppet House added at rank #13.
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Harold Halibut (2024)

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

Harold Halibut is a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean. Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world in his quest to find the true meaning of ‘home’.


  • narrative
  • walking-simulator
  • cinematic
  • interactive
  • lore
  • fiction
  • adventure
  • sci-fi
  • story
  • well-written
  • platform
  • mystery
  • third-person
  • city-sized
  • retro-future

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Hindsight (2022)

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What if the physical objects of everyday life, the possessions we hold close, were actual windows to the past? Peer into distant memories and unseen futures in Hindsight.


  • narrative
  • narration
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • exploration
  • point-and-click
  • story
  • hidden-object
  • interactive
  • drama
  • stylized
  • fiction
  • puzzle
  • relaxing
  • colourful

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Bramble: The Mountain King (2023)

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80
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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Bramble The Mountain King is a grim adventure set in a world inspired by dark, Nordic fables. Explore the beautiful yet dangerous and twisted land of Bramble in your endeavour to rescue your sister. Traverse a wondrous landscape and survive deadly encounters with Bramble's many hideous creatures.


  • horror
  • platform
  • dark
  • exploration
  • narrative
  • puzzle
  • boss-fight
  • cinematic
  • adventure
  • mythology
  • action-adventure
  • fantasy
  • story
  • emotional
  • lore

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This Bed We Made (2023)

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This Bed We Made is a third-person mystery game in which you play as a maid in a 1950s hotel and snoop around strangers' rooms to uncover their deadly secrets. Discover what links guests together in this tale of love, heartbreak and murder!


  • mystery
  • noir
  • detective
  • cinematic
  • lgbtq
  • third-person
  • walking-simulator
  • investigation
  • 1950s
  • crime
  • fiction
  • choices
  • historical
  • story
  • romance

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Goodbye World (2022)

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

"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.


  • platform
  • visual-novel
  • linear
  • text
  • cinematic
  • pixel
  • fiction
  • narrative
  • story
  • atmospheric
  • scroller
  • emotional
  • puzzle
  • interactive
  • adventure

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De-Exit: Eternal Matters (2023)

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

Discover the secrets of the broken and mysterious Plane of Memory. Explore a wonderful voxel world with an intense cinematic approach. Dive into this profound experience, meet the Plane's inhabitants, and save the day.


  • voxel
  • cinematic
  • emotional
  • stealth
  • linear
  • narration
  • minimalist
  • family-friendly
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • 3d
  • platform
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • story

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Atlas Fallen (2023)

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

Rise from the dust and glide the sands of a timeless land, filled with ancient dangers, mysteries and fragments of the past. Hunt legendary monsters with powerful sand-infused weapons and abilities in spectacular, super-powered combat.


  • cinematic
  • cooperative
  • loot
  • rpg
  • action-adventure
  • demons
  • magic
  • fantasy
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • action
  • supernatural
  • combat
  • mystery
  • drop-in

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Funko Fusion (2024)

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Experience a festival of fandom like never before in Funko Fusion! Play through iconic worlds and mashup characters inspired by some of your favorite franchises in an action-adventure game with uniquely authentic, irreverent humor from the creative minds of 10:10 Games.


  • tps
  • action-adventure
  • collectathon
  • cinematic
  • third-person
  • memes
  • nonlinear
  • cooperative
  • combat
  • puzzle
  • boss-fight
  • funny
  • boss
  • character
  • comedy

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Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles (2021)

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

Become the Blade that Destroys Demons!


  • anime
  • 3d
  • demons
  • fight
  • cinematic
  • foreign
  • comic
  • action-adventure
  • emotional
  • pvp
  • cartoony
  • book
  • colourful
  • drama
  • 2d

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Motesolo: No Girlfriend Since Birth (2020)

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On a late afternoon in Seoul, you discover two people talking at a local cafe, and you spy on their conversation.


  • choices
  • nostalgia
  • fmv
  • god-game
  • conversation
  • cinematic
  • dating-sim
  • music
  • experimental
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • procedural
  • narration
  • fiction
  • interactive

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