The Best Retro Games for Xbox Series X - Page 3

Update : Tri Breaker: A Sacred Symbols Odyssey added at rank #2.
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The Karate Kid: Street Rumble (2024)

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

Dominate the dojo in The Karate Kid: Street Rumble, a pixel art beat ‘em up adventure. Grab your friends for local co-op multiplayer and dive into the classic The Karate Kid journey with retro-style gameplay, dynamic combat, and epic boss battles.


  • side-scrolling
  • martial
  • retro
  • 2d
  • beat-em-up
  • cooperative
  • brawler
  • chiptune
  • arts
  • scroller
  • 1980s
  • fight
  • arcade
  • local
  • action

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Ratyrinth (2023)

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

You are drastically separated from your family in a scary forest with dangerous creatures, and you have to find them again! Ratyrinth is a cute and challenging precision platformer.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • precision
  • retro
  • pixel
  • casual
  • cute
  • adventure
  • linear
  • side-scrolling

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Breakout: Recharged (2022)

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

The original brick breaker returns with its toughest challenge yet. Survive as long as you can in arcade or take on one of 50 challenges picking up game-changing power-ups along the way.


  • arcade
  • retro
  • cooperative
  • psychedelic
  • modern
  • 1980s
  • multi-ball
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • attack
  • score
  • linear
  • local
  • classic
  • 2d

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Dungeonoid 2 Awakening (2024)

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

Classic dungeon crawling gets a block-busting twist in Dungeonoid 2 Awakening, a top-down adventure presented in retro pixel art style!


  • classes
  • rpg
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • retro
  • arcade
  • dungeon-crawler
  • fantasy
  • action
  • 2d
  • casual
  • family-friendly

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Cattie (2023)

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

Cattie is a platform game with retro graphics.


  • 8-bit
  • cats
  • platform
  • pixel
  • retro
  • music
  • precision
  • parkour
  • cute
  • mmo
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • multiplayer
  • 2d

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The Fall of Elena Temple (2023)

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

Fall from a ledge, collect the coins below, then undo back to where you fell from, with the coins in your pocket! An old-school puzzle platformer in which you explore rooms, avoid perils and collect all coins to progress. Missed some coins? Fall, collect, undo! Falling into some spikes? Undo!!


  • platform
  • 2d
  • logic
  • puzzle
  • retro
  • collectathon
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • metroidvania
  • minimalist
  • 1980s
  • funny
  • comedy
  • park
  • family-friendly

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Steel Racer (2023)

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

Steel Racer is a 2D pixelated old school racing game, inspired by classics from the 80s and 90s era, featuring great chiptune music, arcade gameplay style and high speed cars! Are you ready to become the "Steel Racer"!?


  • racing
  • pixelated
  • retro
  • old-school
  • 1990s
  • arcade
  • auto
  • 2d
  • sport
  • driving
  • pixel
  • 2.5d
  • simulation
  • chiptune

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Unichrome: A 1-Bit Unicorn Adventure (2022)

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

Run-and-gun platforming single-player arcade action mixed with off-kilter comedy. Horn-dash, Triple-Barrel-Shotgun-Blast, Molotov-Cocktail, and Rainbow-Bazooka-Blast your enemies to their death. Homing bullets, automated turrets, and ice-beams spice up the rainbow-colored carnage.


  • platform
  • soundtrack
  • retro
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • precision
  • pixel
  • old-school
  • comedy
  • atmospheric
  • scroller
  • story
  • 2d
  • single-player
  • funny

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Alisa (2021)

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Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Linux Xbox Series X j Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Alisa is a classic late-90s style horror-themed action adventure game set in a fantasy universe inspired on the 1920s. You play as an Elite Royal Agent called Alisa, who wakes up in a strange Victorian mansion and must find her way out while being haunted by materialized / mechanized doll-like humanoids. Explore classic survival horror gameplay with real pre-rendered backgrounds, eccentric currency and item shop, unique player stats boosts, weapon load-outs, a large variety of enemies and locations and surprises around every corner.


What we like:
  • Nostalgic survival horror experience
  • Sound and graphical design inspired by classic titles
  • Interesting story and characters
  • Optional side missions and collectibles
  • Varied enemy designs and difficulty levels
What could be improved:
  • Unintuitive currency system reliant on killing enemies

  • 1990s
  • survival-horror
  • retro
  • gothic
  • historical
  • alternate
  • old-school
  • military
  • horror
  • mystery
  • action-adventure
  • 3d
  • pixel
  • pve
  • atmospheric

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Superola Champion Edition (2022)

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

A challenging runner-style platforming adventure, in which you’ll have to guide a burger loving llama in its quest to defeat the Hotdog Aliens and recover the stolen hamburgers... before they get cold!


  • platform
  • runner
  • retro
  • split-screen
  • precision
  • character
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • pvp
  • challenging
  • multiplayer
  • boss-fight
  • action-adventure
  • customization
  • funny

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