The Best Philosophical Games for Xbox One - Page 2

Update : The Eightfold Path added at rank #12.
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The Master's Pupil (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Explore the eye of master artist Claude Monet and experience a unique biographical adventure! Test your skills and perseverance as you overcome the progressive disease that threatened Monet’s eyesight and solve puzzles to help the painter complete some of his greatest masterpieces!Throughout the game, you will encounter and overcome increasing challenges as Monet experiences loss, like the passing of his wife Camille, and struggles with the cataracts that threatened his artistic skill. Consider color, space, and timing as you traverse the world of his eye - as one wrong color combination or move can end your journey.


  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • philosophical
  • emotional
  • stylized
  • 2d
  • linear
  • scroller
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • physics
  • adventure
  • surreal

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The Eightfold Path (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Linux Mac OS PC Windows

The path of a Buddhist monk is a path of enlightenment. Find your way through the mystical forest, encounter beautiful creatures, magical places, evil spirits and puzzling challenges that will test if you have what it takes to become a buddha.


  • philosophical
  • psychological
  • nature
  • demons
  • nonlinear
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • surreal
  • retro
  • open-world
  • puzzle
  • 2d

13

Manifold (2021)

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

The game takes place in a "universe with a different set of physical laws" where the player can manipulate gravity, being able to "turn walls into floors".[6] The player must solve puzzles using the world's geometry in addition to devices within the architecture of the world.[6] To aid the player, the world's tone takes on one of six colors depending on which direction they have manipulated gravity. Several facets of the game's world may only be interacted with when the gravity is oriented directly, with these objects sharing one of the six colors.


  • puzzle
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • 3d
  • nonlinear
  • platform
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • psychedelic
  • atmospheric
  • experimental
  • cinematic
  • scroller
  • artificial
  • intelligence

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Hitchhiker - A Mystery Game (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

As a hitchhiker with no memory or destination, you catch a series of rides across a strange and beautiful landscape, tracking the mysterious disappearance of a person close to you. • Hitchhike across a strange and beautiful landscape in five rides with five total strangers who will challenge your grasp on reality... And maybe your philosophy on life. • Solve environmental puzzles, and keep an eye out for clues, in order to uncover your mysterious past.


  • well-written
  • mystery
  • philosophical
  • narration
  • short
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • emotional
  • mature
  • story
  • conversation
  • first-person
  • puzzle
  • drama
  • surreal

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Dreaming Sarah (2015)

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

Dreaming Sarah is a surreal adventure platformer game with puzzle elements, an engaging environment, an incredibly diverse cast of characters, and of course, a young girl named Sarah. Sarah has been in an accident and is currently in a coma. It's up to you to help her wake up by exploring her dream world. Features: * Explore mysterious psychological areas * Collect, equip and use items * Interact with a vast cast of weird characters * Solve brain-teasing puzzles


  • surreal
  • philosophical
  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • abstract
  • supernatural
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • adventure

16

Afterglitch (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows Xbox Series X

Afterglitch is an experimental third-person exploration sci-fi video game. The player is an astronaut whose multidimensional journey to find an extraterrestrial civilization is more important than the destination!


  • time
  • philosophical
  • travel
  • sci-fi
  • surreal
  • futuristic
  • aliens
  • atmospheric
  • space
  • manipulation
  • retro
  • procedural
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • third-person

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Aery - Heaven & Hell (2023)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Discover the passions and fears of the human race as a flying god-like creature.


  • flight
  • philosophical
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • surreal
  • atmospheric
  • god
  • simulation
  • family-friendly
  • casual
  • abstract
  • adventure
  • story

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The Sojourn (2019)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

The Sojourn is a first-person puzzle game set in an immersive colour-drenched world of light and darkness. Think your way through dozens of puzzles as you traverse parallel worlds, awaken mysterious artifacts and overcome challenging obstacles on an unforgettable journey.


  • philosophical
  • stylized
  • puzzle
  • surreal
  • walking-simulator
  • dark
  • family-friendly
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • first-person
  • colourful
  • 3d
  • cookie
  • mystery
  • chess

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Metal Black S-Tribute (2023)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

Collect NEWALONE to level up your beam, then release energy! The home console version of the incredible side-scrolling shooter Metal Black is back with online rankings. Two players can play together!


  • 2d
  • philosophical
  • space
  • arcade
  • satire
  • military
  • futuristic
  • shooter
  • action
  • shoot-em-up
  • platform
  • war

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Memories of East Coast (2021)

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

A debut game of an immersive visual novel experience that brings you on a journey through memory, nostalgia and guilt. Will you accept your fate?


  • psychological
  • visual-novel
  • philosophical
  • immersive
  • emotional
  • drama
  • romance
  • conversation
  • hand-drawn
  • minimalist
  • text
  • thought-provoking
  • fiction
  • atmospheric
  • interactive

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