The Best Xbox Games of 2022

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – January 2, 2023

Which Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One games impressed professional reviewers the most during the past year? We rank the best-reviewed titles released between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022 by Metascore. Games must have at least 7 reviews from professional critics to be eligible for inclusion. If a game appears on both Xbox platforms, only the version receiving the higher quantity of critic reviews (typically the Xbox Series X/S version) is eligible for inclusion. (All scores listed here are from December 31, 2022.)

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92 Cuphead in the Delicious Last Course

(#4) It may only be DLC (see what they did there with the title?), but when the Delicious Last Course is as tasty as the original serving, it's hard to quibble. The first (and likely only) expansion to the award-winning 2017 cartoon platformer introduces a new playable character (Ms. Chalice) and just under five hours of new content, all with the same quality as the original game.

“Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course presents everything we liked the game for but with more finesse, challenge, and attention to detail.” —TrueGaming

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