The Best Thriller Games for Xbox Series X - Page 2

Update : A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead added at rank #5.
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The Rewinder (2021)

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The Rewinder is an adventure puzzle game based on Chinese mythology. You play as Yun, the last known Rewinder, who can communicate with spirits and explore other people's memories to alter the past.


  • pixel
  • point-and-click
  • drama
  • detective
  • mythology
  • thriller
  • puzzle
  • mystery
  • 2d
  • lore
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • horror
  • comedy

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Gray Dawn (2018)

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l j Xbox Series X PC Windows Android Xbox One Playstation 4 Playstation 5

You will be entangled in a terrifying adventure of a priest on a quest to prove his innocence. Guilty or not, you find yourself trapped in the middle of strange events involving a demonic possession and divine apparitions. Each time you remember the boy or hear about being accused of murder, you go into a trance fueled by fear. These moments of madness depict gore, repulsion towards God, and sometimes even the voice of the devil himself trying to convince you of things that may or may not be lies...Gray Dawn takes place around the year 1920, in a remote village in England. Throughout the game, you will often be transported to the beautiful world of Romania, which is inspired by the mysticism of Eastern Europe.


  • horror
  • thriller
  • lovecraftian
  • psychological
  • gore
  • walking-simulator
  • violent
  • story
  • adventure
  • religiously
  • supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • surreal
  • first-person

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Desolatium (2023)

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

DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.


  • horror
  • point-and-click
  • psychological
  • lovecraftian
  • mystery
  • narration
  • multiple-endings
  • detective
  • choices
  • investigation
  • visual-novel
  • thriller
  • adventure
  • first-person
  • exploration

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Last Days of Lazarus (2022)

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

After their mother's suicide, Lazarus returns home to his sister Lyudmila. But unexplained events make the world and even reality collapse around him. Looming death, a spreading malediction and the supernatural threaten his sanity, yet Lazarus pushes forward to find the truth about his family.


  • investigation
  • first-person
  • politics
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • walking-simulator
  • faith
  • narrative
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • drama
  • demons
  • gore
  • dark
  • exploration

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Acceptance (2023)

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

A story-driven psychological thriller about the horrific consequences of a loved one's suicide.


  • psychological
  • thriller
  • horror
  • story
  • romance
  • surreal
  • 2d
  • philosophical
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • psychedelic
  • minimalist

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Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory (2024)

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

A choice-driven RPG thriller set in the World of Darkness universe. Step into the shoes of Samira, a young werewolf refugee in Poland, as she battles dark forces and loneliness, caught between rage and despair. How will your story unfold?


  • choices
  • werewolves
  • thriller
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • lore
  • text
  • multiple-endings
  • fiction
  • surreal
  • replay-value
  • fantasy
  • dark
  • interactive
  • hand-drawn

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Deep Beyond (2024)

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

Deep Beyond Is a first-person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery behind her father’s disappearance.


  • walking-simulator
  • thriller
  • emotional
  • investigation
  • dog
  • underwater
  • stylized
  • sailing
  • mystery
  • 3d
  • story
  • puzzle
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • first-person

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The Forest Cathedral (2023)

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

The Forest Cathedral is a first-person environmental thriller set on a remote island. Playing as scientist Rachel Carson, players will slowly uncover the effects of DDT by using advanced environmental technology to solve 2D/3D connected puzzles in this dramatic reimagining of Silent Spring.


  • platform
  • thriller
  • mosquito
  • exploration
  • simulation
  • science
  • augmented-reality
  • environmental
  • 2d
  • narrative
  • sci-fi
  • adventure
  • true-to-life
  • puzzle
  • metroid

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RE: CALL (2023)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Memories are malleable and changing them will modify the present. Tackle mind-bending puzzles that rely on altering your own recollections to shape the future.


  • dynamic
  • detective
  • conversation
  • logic
  • choices
  • narration
  • thriller
  • investigation
  • emotional
  • japanese
  • pixel
  • illuminati
  • crime
  • psychological
  • jrpg

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Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue (2023)

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Inescapable: No Rules, No Rescue is a social thriller set in a tropical island resort: you’ve been kidnapped and forced to participate in a twisted reality TV show with 10 strangers. At the end of their stay, they’ll each receive $500,000... If they survive.


  • choices
  • investigation
  • thriller
  • visual-novel
  • time-management
  • detective
  • dark
  • anime
  • drama
  • 2.5d
  • multiple-endings
  • mystery
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • horror

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