Xbox Reviews

The Survivalists is an island survival game in which players mysteriously wash-up onshore in tattered clothes and must reap the resources of the island to survive. You must stave off starvation and equip yourself with weapons and tools so that you build a shelter and protect yourself from enemies. Or,

We’ve all heard retellings of the horrors of World War One. Muddied ditches, barbed wire fields, land mines, disease… Millions suffered and died. World War One was also the first major war to heavily involve military aircraft, and the soldiers in the sky were not immune to the death

Downloading Vigor felt like a risk – it had more one-star reviews than five-star reviews on the Microsoft Store. But it’s free to play, so I had a feeling that it was just receiving so much criticism because it was being downloaded by a lot of people who don’t

From developer Headbang Club comes Double Kick Heroes, another rhythm-based game this year that’s quite different from your usual rhythm games. That is, it is a rhythm-based zombie shooter. Double Kick Heroes follows a literal band of rogues fresh off an apocalypse surviving only through the power of rock

Death, Taxes, Madden. I know we can lump plenty of other games here like Call Of Duty or any sports franchise, but Madden is a staple not just of each year, but of the season. Madden is our beginning to fall gaming releases, so starting with a bang is always

Cinders, a hip, contemporary, but kind of lazy nickname for “Cinderella,” is… a hip, contemporary, but kind of lazy re-telling of the classic fairytale in visual novel form. It tells the story of Cinders – a beautiful young woman with big ambitions who lives with, and is held down by, her

After 26 years in obscurity, referenced only as a game no one was able to beat or as a meme you could pre-order at Gamestop, Rare has finally reached into the vault and brought back Zitz, Pimple, and Rash to create Battletoads (2020). While the original Battletoads was notoriously difficult

It’s a bit on-the-nose that developer Cold Symmetry’s attempt to hijack the beloved soulslike genre and make it their own is a game where you literally possess the bodies of other people. Tortured metaphors aside though, Mortal Shell actually pulls off the act quite well, with some interesting