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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(#20) 82 Capcom Fighting Collection

(#19) 82 Grounded
(pictured above) The Microsoft-exclusive survival game, which finds you shrunk down to the size of an ant and stranded in a back yard filled with spiders and dangerous insects, emerged from a two-year early access period in September.

(#18) 83 Crusader Kings III

(#17) 84 Two Point Campus

(#16) 85 Tunic

(#15) 85 Destiny 2: The Witch Queen

(#14) 85 A Plague Tale: Requiem

(#13) 85 Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels

(#12) 85 Citizen Sleeper

(#11) 85 OlliOlli World

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