Top Xbox One Action Games of All Time

Welcome to VideoGamer.com's top Xbox One Action games of All Time, a list of the best videogames, created from editorial reviews on the site. It's the perfect tool to find that great game you haven't played yet, or even to find a gem for a friend or loved one as a gift.

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LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

LEGO Batman 3 starts slow and then gets a lot better, and then overwhelms with so much content it's hard to be disappointed. I don't think I've ever played a game so clearly made with hardcore fans in... more

Reviewed on: 14 November 2014 Platforms: Xbox One
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Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions

Geometry Wars 3 makes big changes, but retains the excellent core gameplay and delivers another addictive blaster. I stuck my middle finger up at my TV within five minutes of playing Geometry... more

Reviewed on: 05 December 2014 Platforms: Xbox One
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Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin

A worthy technical upgrade, but changes to enemy spawn locations serve to add frustration and highlight issues with the original release. I've often felt that Dark Souls 2 follows the misguided notion that more... more

Reviewed on: 02 April 2015 Platforms: Xbox One
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Disney Infinity 3.0

The Disney Infinity 3.0 Starter Pack is a great introduction that will keep kids and kidults alike entertained for a long time. Disney Infinity has, to me at least, always felt like a great idea that... more

Reviewed on: 03 September 2015 Platforms: Xbox One
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The Flame in the Flood

The Flame in the Flood is beautiful, desolate, and it will kill you again and again. The Flame in the Flood is a roguelike survival game, but given that... more

Reviewed on: 24 February 2016 Platforms: Xbox One
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Quantum Break

Quantum Break is a glorious use of current-gen power, with the visual fireworks on show making the combat feel positively joyous. A few years ago Quantum Break was a dead cert to become the game most likely... more

Reviewed on: 01 April 2016 Platforms: Xbox One
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Dark Souls 3

Dark Souls 3 relies too much on former glories to reach the heights of Bloodborne or the original Dark Souls, but that doesn't stop it being another superb adventure. Editor's Note: Now that Steve has had some time with the multiplayer side of... more

Reviewed on: 03 April 2016 Platforms: Xbox One
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Hitman: Summer Bonus Episode

An interesting and imaginative remix. Playing these bonus missions, it's hard not to wonder how many of the Hitman... more

Reviewed on: 20 July 2016 Platforms: Xbox One
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Watch Dogs 2

Watch Dogs 2 is missing a bit of refinement, and has had issues with multiplayer, but joining DedSec is still a riot and a half. It's high energy fun with engaging characters, and you can make an entire city your playground. Watch Dogs 2 has launched without full multiplayer functionality. While you... more

Reviewed on: 18 November 2016 Platforms: Xbox One
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The Sexy Brutale

The secret stories Father Lafcadio uncovers are lovely, but you won't always enjoy the process of uncovering them. Still, a series of elegant murders, with elegant stories, in an elegant mansion is enough to show anyone a good time. Time and time again... Lafcadio Boone is a mysterious man. He's trapped playing out the same 12... more

Reviewed on: 11 April 2017 Platforms: Xbox One
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Middle-earth: Shadow of War

It's a shame the story is so strangely paced, but you hardly need it. Fortress Assaults are great set pieces, and there's a lot of fun to be had with the upgraded Nemesis System alone. When someone goes on Dragon's Den, clutching a sheet of five year... more

Reviewed on: 05 October 2017 Platforms: Xbox One
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Assassin's Creed Origins

Assassin's Creed Origins has vastly improved combat and an astoundingly beautiful world to explore, but it felt a little afraid of going all in with its new direction. I have now spent many hours in Assassin's Creed Origins, and I will probably... more

Reviewed on: 01 November 2017 Platforms: Xbox One
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Control

Control is Remedy at its best: pulpy, weird, and immensely satisfying to play. Its setting is a potent concoction of '60s brutalist style and wacky sci-fi. Performance issues hamper the shootouts, and the characters are a little cold, but it's the setting and atmosphere that win the day. The first words in Alan Wake, intoned by its eponymous hero, are... more

Reviewed on: 26 August 2019 Platforms: Xbox One
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has a string of wisely chosen influences, and it delivers on the long-overdue promise of a fun Jedi action-adventure. Bugs and design wrinkles irritate. The trouble with Star Wars is that it is no longer a long time ago, nor is... more

Reviewed on: 21 November 2019 Platforms: Xbox One
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Okami

The world of Okami is so lush, visually stunning and complete within itself that you just want to lose yourself in it. One of the last great games for the PlayStation 2. It seems a shame that the release of such a beautiful game as Okami should... more

Reviewed on: 06 February 2007 Platforms: Xbox One
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Shadow Complex

Shadow Complex is a triumph, a new standard for downloadable games. Shadow Complex is Super Metroid for the Gears of War generation. Its 2D... more

Reviewed on: 17 August 2009 Platforms: Xbox One
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9

Skylanders: Swap Force

A brilliant, imaginative game for kids of all ages In the face of strong competition from Disney Infinity, Skylanders really... more

Reviewed on: 21 October 2013 Platforms: Xbox One
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Grand Theft Auto Online

GTA's online offering lives up to its billing. With a launch so devastatingly crippled by server issues, it's fair to say... more

Reviewed on: 25 October 2013 Platforms: Xbox One
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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

The strongest Lego title yet, and the best Marvel game ever made. Lego Marvel Super Heroes is, for the most part, plastic proof that... more

Reviewed on: 14 November 2013 Platforms: Xbox One
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Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

A triumph of emergent gameplay, slightly let down by a heavily scripted ending. Forget the Tolkien association, and put aside its similarities with... more

Reviewed on: 26 September 2014 Platforms: Xbox One
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DmC Devil May Cry

DmC Definitive Edition's customisation tools that allow the player to tweak gameplay to suit their own style is what makes this an excellent remaster for newcomers and veterans alike. Remember back in 2013 when all the internet had to get mad about was a... more

Reviewed on: 10 March 2015 Platforms: Xbox One,Xbox One
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Rise of the Tomb Raider

An awesome adventure that delivers an epic sense of discovery. On PS4 Rise of the Tomb Raider is just as gorgeous as ever and packed full with some excellent bonus content. Tom and Colm discuss what's new in Rise of the Tomb Raider on PS4.What... more

Reviewed on: 10 October 2016 Platforms: Xbox One,Xbox One
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NieR: Automata

NieR: Automata has more creativity and self-awareness in its little finger than most games have for their entire run time. Don’t miss this because it’s sandwiched between other, bigger games. This review was kindly done for us by Adam Cook. Find other cool stuff he's... more

Reviewed on: 06 March 2017 Platforms: Xbox One
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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is beautiful, discomforting, and compelling. It might challenge what you like about games, but challenge is good. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't try it. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is the sort of game that you'll either really... more

Reviewed on: 10 August 2017 Platforms: Xbox One
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Monster Hunter World

This long standing series makes an outrageously good current gen debut. The size and scope of the environments, and the monsters in them, is awe inspiring, making Monster Hunter: World a true (lizard) king of games. There will probably, whilst playing Monster Hunter: World, come a moment... more

Reviewed on: 25 January 2018 Platforms: Xbox One
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Red Dead Redemption 2

Few worlds are as well-realised as the one Rockstar has created for Red Dead Redemption 2. Thanks to some wonderful scripting and stellar performances, the characters you randomly meet in the wild are captured as well as the ones you spend most of your days around camp. How do you follow Red Dead Redemption? You make Red Dead Redemption 2. Loyalty is important to everyone in the vast open world of Rockstar... more

Reviewed on: 25 October 2018 Platforms: Xbox One
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Devil May Cry 5

Devil May Cry 5 revels in its own gleeful stupidity, presenting a world in which the most valuable commodity is style. At the beginning of Devil May Cry 5, the city of Red Grave – which... more

Reviewed on: 06 March 2019 Platforms: Xbox One
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon

This is the crux of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It is fascinated by the way that games lurk at the soft verges of life, vesting our days with dreams. Fifteen years on from the first Yakuza, after five sequels, a prequel, two... more

Reviewed on: 04 November 2020 Platforms: Xbox One
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Grand Theft Auto 5

The definitive version of Rockstar's biggest world to date. Editor's Note: Below is a rundown of the technical accomplishments of GTA 5... more

Reviewed on: 20 November 2014 Platforms: Xbox One,Xbox One,Xbox One
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Batman: Arkham Knight

Batman: Arkham Knight is the best Batman game ever made and a classic in its own right. 'The Batman games wouldn't be any good if Batman wasn't in it' is a long... more

Reviewed on: 19 June 2015 Platforms: Xbox One

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