The best Xbox One Games 2020/2021: Our Top 10 Games

What are the best games for Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S? This question should face each owner of the Microsoft consoles.

The rules for the top list : Here you will find at a glance the 10 Xbox games with the currently highest Xbox ratings from the years 2020 and 2021. Note that DLCs and extensions are not taken into account in this list. In addition, it is not exclusively exclusive titles. If there are several games with the same Xbox test score, we consider the most recent, so last game.

Note to the list :

At the beginning of 2021, we have revised this list extensively. All represented releases from 2019 were removed so that you now only find games from the years 2020 and 2021 in the list. Titles like Monster Hunter World: Iceborne and Resident Evil 2, of course, continue to retain our recommendation.

Last update on July 30, 2021: The Microsoft Flight Simulator has appeared but missed the top 10. Nevertheless, you will learn in our test, why the game is a first class flight.

10 . Resident Evil 8: Village - Score: 87

Genre: Horror Game Release date: 07 . May 2021 Xbox One X adjustments: Two modes for election - 4K / 30 fps or 1080p / 60 fps Xbox Series X adjustments: Two modes for select - 4K / 60 FPS or 4K with RayTracing / 45-60 FPS

That's why: Resident Evil 8: Village builds on the events from Resident Evil 7 and you experience a history again with protagonist Ethan Winters. After a fatal encounter with Chris Redfield, Ethan is looking for his daughter in an Eastern European village. There he is hunted by the resident monsters, such as the werewolves or the VampirLayd Dimitrescu.

This is special: Resident Evil: Village is the perfect horror entertainment, for those who want to scare you just a bit. Because you can always fight back the opponents with your arms Arsenal. In addition, a scary atmosphere comes in the mysterious village, which generates repeated moments.

Recommended for fans of : Resident Evil and light horror cost

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Resident Evil 8 in the test: Village is a "Best of" from 25 years Resi

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9 . Subnautica: Below Zero - score: 87

Genre: Survival Release: 26 . May 2021 Xbox One X adjustments: Dynamic 4K at 30 fps Xbox Series X adjustments : 4k / 30fps or 1440p / 60fps Xbox Series S adjustments : 1440p / 30fps or 1080p / 60fps

That's why: Subnautica: Below Zero is a standalone extension to subnautica. She explores the extraterrestrial underwater world of Planet 4546b, but this time it goes into a frosty ice area. As a scientist, we should examine alien artifacts there. However, the research station is destroyed in an incident and we suddenly have to fight for our survival.

This is special: Even if much was taken from the predecessor, Below Zero sets its own stimuli to take off. To do this, you explore a really vibrant world that attracts again and again with your sweet but sometimes dangerous residents. And if you do not feel like the survival aspects, you can easily turn off them.

Recommended for fans of: Survival games and the Antarctic

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Subnautica Below Zero In Test: A familiar dive, served only cold

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8th. F1 2020 - rating: 89

Genre: racing game Release date: 10 . July 2020 Xbox One X / Xbox Series X adjustments: Liquid frame rate (up to 60 fps), higher resolution (up to 4k)

That's why: F1 2020 is the annual racing game simulation based on the premier class of racing. The game takes the name very seriously as a simulation and is thus the most realistic picture of the races. Overall, waiting for you 31 routes and next to the self-created driver are also known stars, such as Max Stappen, Lewis Hamilton or Sebastian Vettel, to choose from.

This is special: F1 2020 is brilliantly brilliantly by its successful myTeam mode. In this career variant you are the managers of your own racing stalls. There are many, long-awaited comfort options that are meaningfully built into the game.

Recommended for fans: of Formula 1 and other racing types

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F1 2020 in the test - the king of the premier class

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7 . Mafia: Definitive Edition - Score: 89

Genre: Action Release date: 25 . September 2020 Xbox One X / XBox Series X adjustments: Higher resolution (up to 1440p)

The focus is on: At the center of Mafia: Definitive Edition stands the rise of Tommy Angelo, which works up from the taxi driver to a central figure of the organized crime of Lost Heaven, and of course also about the proverbial bodies.

This is the special: For the remake of the classic published in the early 2000, developer Hangar 13 has analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the game and improves the classic in almost all points. The story continues to be brilliant with its characters, history is given even more space thanks to more extensive intermediate sequences. Since optics and control were lifted to a modern level, the definitive edition is an excellent remake.

Recommended for fans of: Storylastic action games, the original.

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Mafia in the test: a remake that you should not reject

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6 . Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire rating: 90

Genre : RPG Release date : January 28 2020 Xbox One X adjustments : Liquid frame rate

It's about it : In Pillars of Eternity 2, you are pursuing a deity that has a huge statue and trampled on a destructive course through the Hellfire Archipelago. Who has played the first part, can import a corresponding memory level in the second part.

This is the special : The role-play designed for the PC was primarily ported on the console. The control is comfortable and goes as well as in the first part. Also texts and menus are readily readable.

In principle, Pillars of Eternity 2 also enthuses with its branched history, the game world on the island group Deadfire, where there are new cultures, flourishing trade and unscrupulous pirates. The console detection already contains all DLCs and updates of the PC version.

Recommended for fans of : real-time role-playing games and fans of Pillars of Eternity 1.

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Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire in the test - Grandious role-playing game for patient

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5 . Doom Eternal - score: 90

Genre: Shooter Release date: 20 . March 2020 Xbox One X adjustments: Higher resolution (1800p) Xbox Series X adjustment: Still unknown

That's why it's: In Doom Eternal, the earth is overrun by a demon army. Only her as the Doom Slayer can give the stop and the nasty Khan Makyr and his three hell priests offer the forehead.

This is special: Like its predecessors, Doom Eternal uses fast and brutal ego action: her tatters and chattering demons and other fieslings, the movement now plays a much more important role.

In addition to firearms, the Slayer now has a sword blade and a gripping hook at the forearm, which can be used for cool motion maneuvers and melee attacks. Thus, Doom Eternal feels like a brutal puzzle, which once again a significant boost again.

Recommended for fans of: fast and demanding shooters.

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Doom Eternal in the test - more brutal, bloody, better

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4 . It Takes Two - rating: 90

Genre: Action Adventure Release date: 26 . March 2021 Xbox One X adjustments: Higher resolution, improved frame rate (up to 60 fps) Xbox Series X adaptation: Higher resolution, improved frame rate (up to 60 fps), almost no loading times

It's about it: The couple May and Cody lived so apart in recent times, which is why they want to divorce themselves. Since her daughter Rose does not want to allow that, she asks the book of love for help. Short-hand the parents are turned into small dolls. From now on, you will be forced to work together from the annoying book of love, so as not only to return to your bodies, but also save your marriage.

That's the special: IT TAKES Two is only playable in the split screen coeP locally or online. So you always need players: inside. With the help of the Friends Pass only one has to buy the game and the teammate or the teammate can happen for free.

But is the hurdle overcome await you a varied cooperative adventure, which offers new gameplay elements until the end. These surprises make the charm of the game enormously and since the two characters take different roles, a playback value is also offered.

Recommended for fans of: Koop games

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It Takes Two In Test: A Koop Masterpiece for PS4 and Xbox One

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3 . Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Rating: 90

Genre: Roleplay Release date: 14 . May 2021 Xbox One X adjustments : 4K / 30 FPS or 1440P / 60 FPS as a target Xbox Series X adjustments : 4k / 60fps or 1440p / 120fps as a target Xbox Series S adjustments : 1440p / 60fps as a target

That's why it's: Mass Effect: Legendary Edition units the popular Sci-Fi trilogy to a package after nine years. In the Remaster, it experiences the story about Commander Shepard and his crew on the Normandy, traveling varied planets and fights for enemy Aliens.

This is the special: In addition to the history of course, with many decision-making opportunities, it is mainly the technique of Remaster, which convinces. Above all, Mass Effect 1 is now slightly dusty but experienced a second spring through the technical adjustments.

Recommended for fans of: Sci-Fi stories and action role games

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition in Test: An RPG masterpiece in its best version

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2 . F1 2021 - rating: 90

Genre: racing game Release date: 16 . July 2021 Xbox One X / Xbox Series S adaptation: 1080p / 60fps Xbox Series X adaptation : 1440p / 120fps, dynamic 4k / 60fps

It's about it : F1 2021 is the latest offshoot to the popular royal class of racing. In the simulation you can experience a career mode, which is a bit based on the Netflix documentary "Drive to Survive". There is also a co-op career that can be experienced online with another teammate or another teammate.

That's special : F1 2021 is also very interesting away from racing fans. Through the felt endless adjustment options, newbies and experts equally adapt the races to their own skill.

Recommended for fans of: racing games, simulations and fast cars

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F1 2021 in the test: even better than the fantastic predecessor

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1. Ori and the Will of the WISPS - Rating: 92

Genre: Jump & Run Release date: 11 . March 2020 Xbox One X adjustments: Higher resolution (4K) Xbox Series X adaptation: Higher resolution (up to 6K), higher frame rates (up to 120 fps)

That's why: Waldgeist Ori crashes with his owl friend Ku over the mysterious Niwen area. The two are separated from each other and the subsequent search for Ku will soon become your much larger adventure.

This is special: Ori And The Will of the Wisps creates the feat, the most important criticisms of the already terrific predecessor and is thereby becoming an even larger overall artwork as Ori and the Blind Forest. The fighting now feels much better, the upgrade system looks more elegant and also the game build-up offers more variety with co-missions and smaller tasks.

The almost perfect playability remained, the scanny dense atmosphere with the striking graphics style and a soundtrack, which is one of the best current video game scores for us at all. Ori 2 should have played every Xbox owner.

Recommended for fans of: Outstanding platforms and great technology

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Ori and the Will of the Wisps in Test - Master Metroidvania

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These were the best Xbox One Games of the years 2020/2021.

More reviews from 2020/2021 and the Hall of Fame with five games we always recommend reading on page 2.