The Best Souls Games for Xbox Series X - Page 3

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Morbid: The Lords of Ire (2024)

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

Risk insanity in the gruesome slash-em-up Morbid: The Lords of Ire, with brutal combat and souls-like elements. Defeat the five Lords of Ire as you fight for your life across tortured landscapes, rending the evil Gahars of their flesh-bound forms.


  • souls
  • dark
  • hack-and-slash
  • lovecraftian
  • lore
  • blood-soaked
  • blood
  • action-adventure
  • arpg
  • gore
  • isometric

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Mortal Shell (2020)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4

Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. Your adversaries spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision, and instincts. Possess lost warriors, track down hidden sanctums of the devout, and face formidable foes.


  • souls
  • boss
  • rpg
  • combat
  • dungeon
  • boss-fight

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Deathbound (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Deathbound is a one-of-a-kind party-based soulslike set in a callous world where Faith and Science clash. Dynamically transform between fallen warriors all with their own unique skill sets, combat styles, and rich history. Conquer a brutal reality where Life and Death were never more conflicted.


  • party
  • souls
  • 4-hero
  • medieval
  • dystopian
  • boss
  • combat
  • rpg
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • fight
  • post-apocalyptic
  • body
  • futuristic
  • violent

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Super Chicken Jumper (2021)

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

Super Chicken Jumper is a hardcore retro platformer that offers an addictive and rage-inducing gaming experience. Play as a superhero chicken and help Mrs President take down huge bosses across 6 unique worlds, while avoiding an array of obstacles. Equip yourself with an array of tools and equipment to give you a fighting chance against the mutated bosses!


What we like:
  • Simple approach
  • Colourful aesthetics
  • Cute graphics
  • Cooperative gameplay
  • Flappy Bird-like gameplay
  • Endless option
  • Brutal and unfair challenges
  • Basic concept with power-ups to change the course of the game
What could be improved:
  • Brutal difficulty curve and unforgiving mechanics that will make you wince with failure repeatedly
  • Cinematic not for everyone
  • Basic button layout can be fiddly to master at times

  • anime
  • cute
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • cooperative
  • local
  • souls
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • funny
  • runner
  • multiplayer
  • arcade
  • difficult
  • procedural

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ELDERBORN (2020)

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ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.


  • souls
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • swordplay
  • perma-death
  • fight
  • comic
  • hack-and-slash
  • pve
  • dungeon-crawler
  • first-person
  • book

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Eastern Exorcist (2021)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Eastern Exorcist is a stunning 2D side-scrolling action RPG set in a fantasy eastern world with the vicious spirits and monsters. Play as a skilled exorcist against chaotic evil to fight your way through the brutal world, and experience different stories of joy and sorrow.


  • souls
  • hack-and-slash
  • scroller
  • 2d
  • rpg
  • hand-drawn
  • side-scrolling
  • demons
  • parry
  • action
  • magic
  • violent
  • combat
  • arts

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Stray Blade (2023)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

The hyper-responsive combat system allows quick reactions and precise attacks to fully control the flow of battle. Explore towering throne rooms of giant god-kings and long-lost cities. Get ready to explore a world that is constantly altered by your discoveries and the waging forces.


  • souls
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • combat
  • metroidvania
  • crafting
  • hack-and-slash
  • rpg
  • fight
  • customization
  • character
  • action
  • fantasy
  • metroid

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Zapling Bygone (2022)

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

Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • nonlinear
  • scroller
  • platform
  • psychological
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • horror
  • boss
  • action-adventure
  • aliens
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • precision-platform

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Astronite (2022)

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70
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Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 PC Windows

Astronite is a 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Recover the planet where you and yours lived before it was invaded by strange creatures.


  • 8-bit
  • platform
  • souls
  • nonlinear
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • music
  • precision
  • action-adventure
  • open-world
  • pixel
  • sci-fi
  • exploration
  • shooter

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Hellpoint (2020)

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

Hellpoint is an intense action RPG taking place on Irid Novo, a derelict space station soaked in an intoxicating dark sci fi atmosphere. Fight dreadful creatures, face the Cosmic Gods and unravel their twisted story. Should the challenge be too great, play with a friend in local or online coop.


  • souls
  • sci-fi
  • lovecraftian
  • horror
  • rpg
  • campaign
  • split-screen
  • cooperative
  • hack-and-slash
  • dark

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