The Best Anime Games for Xbox Series X

Update 16 November 2023: YOHANE THE PARHELION -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE- added at rank #5.

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Play as Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War ~Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth~, a thrilling 2D action-exploration game. Using your sword and bow, fight against enemies and level up your elemental spirits to gain new abilities. With beautiful graphics and an engaging story by the original creator, both longtime fans and new players will enjoy this Metroidvania-style adventure.

• Fantastic gameplay and puzzles
• Beautiful 2D sprites with great animations
• Good music
• Backtracking is not a chore
• Smooth and responsive controls with continuous influx of new weapons and spells

• Extremely short gameplay for completionists
• Grating music at times
• Potentially difficult fights

• anime
• boss
• action-exploration
• "
• exploration
• pixel
• novel
• metroidvania
• 2d
• boss-fight
• fantasy
• rpg
• beat-em-up
• platform
• ikaruga

Good match + 104 Bad match - 117

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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is an action RPG that allows players to explore a semi-open world and take part in power-soaked battles as one of several main characters. Players can level up their character and learn new special moves, as well as boost their stats by assigning characters to communities.

• Vibrant colors
• Engaging voice acting
• Incredible score
• Rhythm-based combat
• Never died once during battle
• Plenty of tools to make winning easier
• Lots of collectables and side missions

• Repetitive fetch quests derail momentum from story beats
• Occasional graphical stutter
• Some key moments and characters were omitted

• open-world
• fight
• rpg
• anime
• battle
• combat
• action
• combo

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Scarlet Nexus is a fast-paced action JRPG with visceral combat that follows an all-new story of humanity's struggle against a hostile alien race. You play as a special kind of soldier with the power and abilities to fight back, and you must master your psychokinetic control over objects, borrow your allies' powers, and outwit the enemies that stand in your way.

• Visceral combat
• Intuitive controls
• Dynamic visual novel-like cut scenes
• Stunning world design
• Evocative theme
• Entertaining characters

• 3D perspective can make placement difficult sometimes

• anime
• rpg
• japanese
• combat
• action
• jrpg
• battle
• fight
• narrative
• futuristic
• quick-time-event
• sci-fi

Good match + 102 Bad match - 197

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Get ready for an all-new adventure with River City Girls 2! Team up with friends for local or online co-op and pound punks with new abilities including guard-crush attacks and lift-off combos. Level up to earn new moves, buy items, and recruit defeated foes and hired heavies to help you along the way. With enhanced combat, bigger areas to explore, surprise cameos, and an epic soundtrack, you'll be brawling until your enemies yell "BARF!"

• Side quests include mini-games for diversity
• Multiplayer options available for local and online play
• Destructible background objects for added fun
• Offers solid beat 'em up mechanics with light RPG mechanics
• Unique enemy recruitment system that allows players to personalize their play style

• Unbalanced boss battles
• Lack of enemy variety
• Technical issues with FPS and multiplayer

• beat-em-up
• cooperative
• anime
• brawler
• pixel
• fight
• boss
• rpg
• local
• em-up
• collectathon
• boss-fight
• comic
• action
• arts

Good match + 40 Bad match - 38

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Yohane the Parhelion is an official spin-off of "Love Live! Sunshine". Yohane's fantasy world sets the stage for a 2D metroidvania in "Yohane the Parhelion: Blaze in the Deepblue"!

• '
• anime
• dungeon
• boss
• metroidvania
• 2d
• underwater
• action
• cute
• adventure
• hack-and-slash
• crafting
• fantasy
• pixel
• park

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Super Chicken Jumper is a hardcore retro platformer that offers an addictive and rage-inducing gaming experience. Play as a superhero chicken and help Mrs President take down huge bosses across 6 unique worlds, while avoiding an array of obstacles. Equip yourself with an array of tools and equipment to give you a fighting chance against the mutated bosses!

• Simple approach
• Colourful aesthetics
• Cute graphics
• Cooperative gameplay
• Flappy Bird-like gameplay
• Endless option
• Brutal and unfair challenges
• Basic concept with power-ups to change the course of the game

• Brutal difficulty curve and unforgiving mechanics that will make you wince with failure repeatedly
• Cinematic not for everyone
• Basic button layout can be fiddly to master at times

• anime
• cute
• action-adventure
• colourful
• cooperative
• local
• souls
• 2d
• pixel
• funny
• runner
• multiplayer
• arcade
• difficult
• procedural

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Echo of Starsong is a visual novel style adventure game. Eda, a girl who can hear mysterious sound waves known as starsong, crosses paths with a young man in search of their source. Together, they venture out to the heart of space to unravel an ancient myth.

• visual-novel
• emotional
• soundtrack
• japanese
• fiction
• 2.5d
• anime
• space
• walking-simulator
• interactive
• story
• jrpg
• exploration
• 2d
• atmospheric

Good match + 2 Bad match - 5

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SD Gundam Battle Alliance is a multiplayer Gundam action RPG where you can smash foes solo or with friends in thrilling mechanized combat. Acquire new mobile suits, power them up, and take them into battle in various missions!

• mech
• rpg
• modeling
• cooperative
• animation
• anime
• action
• robots
• lore
• historical
• hack-and-slash
• third-person
• 3-person
• beat-em-up
• pve

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River City Girls Zero is a spin-off of the Kunio-kun franchise where you play as Misako and Kyoko, fighting their way to rescue Kunio and Riki. Featuring great visuals, superb character designs, and a fantastic soundtrack, River City Girls Zero offers local co-op support with extras like manga-style animated self-aware cutscenes, an opening video, new music and more.

• Great visuals
• Superb character designs
• Fantastic soundtrack
• Local co-op support
• Extras like manga-style animated cutscenes
• New music

• No difficulty modes
• No online play
• Limited display options for aspect ratios

• beat-em-up
• cooperative
• brawler
• anime
• action-translated
• spin-kicking
• pixel
• fight
• local
• motorbike
• crime
• boss
• retro
• combat
• classic

Good match + 3 Bad match - 3

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Become the Blade that Destroys Demons!

• 3d
• anime
• demons
• fight
• cinematic
• foreign
• comic
• action-adventure
• emotional
• pvp
• cartoony
• book
• colourful
• drama
• 2d

Good match + 13 Bad match - 15

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