The Best Unforgiving Games for Xbox One

Update : Exophobia added at rank #2.
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Will You Snail? (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation.


  • platform
  • unforgiving
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • precision
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • scroller
  • short
  • comedy
  • puzzle
  • non-linear
  • funny
  • story

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Exophobia (2024)

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

Explore and fight your way through a crashed human spaceship infested with relentless hordes of aliens as you become more powerful with exciting weapon upgrades and powerups in this retro inspired first-person shooter.


  • first-person
  • shooter
  • unforgiving
  • metroidvania
  • fps
  • boomer
  • action-adventure
  • combat
  • retro
  • reflexes
  • aliens
  • stylized
  • pixel
  • space
  • colourful

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Help Will Come Tomorrow (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Linux

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.


  • survival
  • unforgiving
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • choices
  • narration
  • simulation
  • political
  • historical
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • story

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Knight And Mourning (2023)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Do you like 2D platformers? Are you constantly complaining about how bad you are at them? Well, continue to complain! Even if you think you are good at Knight And Mourning, you aren't.


  • unforgiving
  • precision
  • platform
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • pixel
  • tutorial
  • scroller
  • family-friendly
  • medieval
  • linear
  • difficult

5

Climber: Sky is the Limit (2022)

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Climber: Sky is the Limit is a mountain walking simulator game where you become a winter climber. To succeed you need to plan the trip, prepare appropriate equipment, face extreme weather conditions and survive. Only the sky is the limit!


  • immersive
  • unforgiving
  • experience
  • snow
  • survival
  • management
  • simulation
  • nature
  • resource-management
  • choices
  • walking-simulator
  • inventory
  • sport
  • replay-value
  • atmospheric

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Cracked (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Cracked is a difficult 2D Platformer. Dominate the leaderboards by completing the maps as fast as possible. Explore the abandoned Factory, the desert Pyramid and the jungle Temple.


  • unforgiving
  • attack
  • platform
  • precision
  • time
  • 2d
  • character
  • linear
  • historical
  • customization
  • cartoony
  • score
  • minimalist
  • funny

7

Beyond Doors (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Caleb woke up in a mystical dimension after experiencing burnout in his job. Door-to-door, guided by enigmatic musical notes, he needs to be reminded of his true calling. Immerse yourself in this mind-bending platformer.


  • platform
  • precision
  • hand-drawn
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • unforgiving
  • atmospheric
  • hand-craft
  • retro
  • colourful
  • fast-paced

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Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles (2020)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Linux

Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.


  • survival-horror
  • unforgiving
  • roguevania
  • pve
  • lore
  • tps
  • horror

9

Gravitators (2021)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Gravitators is a twin stick shooter game where you pilot ships and complete mission objectives to secure the future of humankind. Defend the Earth and travel through the galaxy to repel a relentless alien invasion.


  • twin-stick
  • unforgiving
  • shooter
  • space
  • top-down
  • sci-fi
  • flight
  • replay-value
  • physics
  • 3-person
  • futuristic
  • 2d
  • difficult
  • colourful
  • shoot-em-up

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.G (2022)

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PC Windows Xbox One

Avoid meteorites and survive until the end.


  • unforgiving
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • family-friendly
  • hidden-object
  • tutorial
  • linear
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • space
  • flight

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