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Xbox admittedly hasn’t had a noteworthy 2022 in the case of first-party releases, however Microsoft’s gaming {hardware} greater than made up for its minimal number of Xbox-published exclusives by being among the best platforms for third-party video games. Mixed with its primary occasion Sport Cross subscription program and day one releases by way of it, Xbox had loads of gaming muscle to flex all through 2022.
On the exclusives facet, Xbox’s massive releases this yr comprised of a wonderful enlargement for Forza Horizon 5, the complete launch of Grounded, and fascinating Pentiment. Centered extra on high quality over amount forward of 2023’s massive releases within the type of Redfall and Starfield, Xbox avid gamers crammed the hole between console-exclusive releases with a number of wonderful third-party video games.
Sport Cross supplied wonderful materials equivalent to Persona 5 Royal, Deathloop, and A Plague Story: Requiem, whereas the current-gen facet of the equation noticed Gotham Knights and Marvel’s Midnight Suns arrive on Microsoft’s pair of highly effective consoles.
So which video games earned crucial acclaim this yr by way of that platform? We have crunched the numbers from Metacritic, GameSpot’s sister website, to see which titles had been incomes rave opinions, excessive numbers, and loads of reward, with the record beneath being a mix of each Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X|S titles.
