Old school for Xbox One — top best games in the Old school genre

Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered - a game in the Old school genre

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Exploration, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 14 February 2024

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Remasters of the original Lara Croft games. The collection includes Tomb Raider I + The Unfinished Business Expansion, Tomb Raider II + The Gold Mask Expansion and...

LOVE

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Arcade, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 9 April 2020

A minimalist game with a retro aesthetic and an emphasis on challenge without being unfair. The game features an innovative revival system, 16 levels and an...

Mina the Hollower

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Top-down view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 29 May 2026

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 91/100

The game takes you to a dark gothic world where a cursed island hides behind a thick curtain of darkness. The main character is the agile and fearless Mina, who is...

Empty Shell

Shooter, Top-down view, Roguelike, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 23 July 2024

A dynamic shooter with black and white pixel graphics and randomly generated locations. The main character is one of the volunteers who explores a secret industrial...

Contra: Operation Galuga

Action, Arcade, Side view, Shooter, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 12 March 2024

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Reimagining of the original side-scrolling shooter Contra from 1987. The game includes new levels, enemies, game mechanics, and a weapon system. The story mode...

Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Exploration, Old school, Collection

Game released: Xbox One → 14 February 2025

VGTimes: 5.3/10

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 66/100

Remasters of the original Lara Croft games. The collection includes Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, Tomb Raider: Chronicles and Tomb Raider: The Angel of...

Chained Echoes

Role-playing game, Side view, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Exploration, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 8 December 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Old school RPG with turn-based combat. Events take place in a colorful fantasy world on the continent of Valandis. A group of heroes embark on a dangerous journey...

Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Arcade, Adventure, Comics, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 1 December 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Classic arcade action in the Marvel universe with pixel graphics and exciting command gameplay. Annigilus leads his deadly army and only the greatest heroes are...

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Warhammer 40K, Demons, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 23 May 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Old-school shooter in the Warhammer 40K universe, inspired by classic gory games from the '90s, such as DOOM (1993) and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. The...

Little Orpheus

Action, Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Science fiction, Side view, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 13 September 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Little Orpheus is an adventure platformer with puzzle and action elements in the science fiction genre. 1962 NASA is trying to land a man on the moon. Meanwhile, in...

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound

Indie, Platformer, Side view, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 31 July 2025

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Pixel game from the Ninja Gaiden series. Ryu Hayabusa goes to America, where he must fulfill the will of his father. At this time, an army of demons penetrates the...

Operation Wolf Returns: First Mission

Shooter, First-person view, Casual game, Old school, Arcade, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: Xbox One → 21 September 2023

Metacritic: 65/100

A re-release of the classic 1987 rail shooter. The player takes on the role of a special agent who fights a mysterious criminal organization. In addition to the...

Nightmare Reaper

Shooter, First-person view, Roguelike, Old school, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: Xbox One → 18 May 2023

Players: 3.2/10

Metacritic: 73/100

An old-school bloody shooter featuring a brutal mix of modern and classic 2.5D shooters. The game has open levels with crowds of enemies, secrets and treasures, 80...

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

Shooter, First-person view, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 25 April 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

A classic shooter designed to become the spiritual successor to cult games — Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Blood, Unreal and Hexen. The plot tells the story of a...

Killing Time: Resurrected

Shooter, First-person view, Old school, Horror, Adventure

Game released: Xbox One → 18 October 2024

Players: 10/10

Re-release of Killing Time with updated graphics. The game takes place in the early 1930s. An Egyptology student finds himself in a mysterious mansion where some...

Slave Zero X

Side view, Beat them all, Platformer, Action, Futurism (Future), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 21 February 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

This is a prequel to the original Slave Zero, released in 1999. The game's events take place five years before the events shown in the first part. Megacity S1-9...

Prison City

Side view, Platformer, Action, Science fiction, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 16 November 2023

Players: 8.2/10

The events of the game take place in 1997. The city of Detroit has become an impenetrable mega-prison. One day, a group of terrorist hackers seized control of this...

Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster

Shooter, Action, First-person view, Star Wars, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 28 February 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Remaster Star Wars: Dark Forces from Nightdive Studios, featuring enhanced graphics and updated gameplay. The original game narrated the early adventures of Kyle...

New Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja

Side view, Platformer, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 2 December 2022

Remake of the classic platformer Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja from 1991. One night, people from one tribe stole all the women from another tribe. Cro-Magnons Joe...

Shovel Knight Dig

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy, Old school, Medieval era, Procedural generation

Game released: Xbox One → 15 May 2025

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A fast-paced action platformer with roguelike elements set in the Shovel Knight universe. Shovel Knight embarks on a new adventure, digging ever deeper in search of...

Neon Inferno

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 20 November 2025

Metacritic: 74/100

Old-school cyberpunk action that combines elements of a side-scroller and a "target" type shooter, where the action unfolds simultaneously on multiple planes of the...

Slaps And Beans

Action, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 24 July 2018

Metacritic: 63/100

Slaps And Beans is a retro-style game about Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, Italian actors who together made many action-packed comedies and spaghetti westerns...

Lords of Exile

Side view, Platformer, Arcade, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 14 February 2024

Players: 7/10

In ancient times, as a result of the war in the Far East, the lands of Exilia were captured by creatures of the night and samurai. In this brutal conflict, only a...

River City Girls Zero

Arcade, Side view, Fighting, Anime / Manga, Music game, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 13 September 2022

Metacritic: 68/100

River City Girls Zero is a cooperative Beat 'em up action game with 16-bit graphics, which tells the story of four characters: Kunio, Riki, Misako and Kyoko. In the...

Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons

Side view, Arcade, Platformer, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 27 July 2023

Metacritic: 72/100

The game takes place in the 90s in New York, which survived a nuclear war. The streets are filled with looters and bandits fighting for power. The main characters...

Bloodshed

Shooter, First-person view, Roguelike, Fantasy, Old school, Demons

Game released: Xbox One → 23 October 2025

Players: 6.8/10

The main character battles endless waves of enemies and confronts an ominous cult whose members want to resurrect an ancient deity to bring about the apocalypse...

Quake 2 - Enhanced Edition

Shooter, First-person view, Science fiction, Online, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 10 August 2023

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Humanity is embroiled in a war with the Strogg, a hostile alien race that has attacked Earth. In response, people decided to strike the Strogg planet. The attack...

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Cyberpunk, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Shooter, First-person view, Horror, Science fiction, Role-playing game, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 10 July 2025

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Remaster of the role-playing shooter System Shock 2 from 1999. The game's action takes place in the distant future on a spaceship. The main character is an...

PO'ed: Definitive Edition

Old school, Shooter, First-person view, Space

Game released: Xbox One → 16 May 2024

An updated version of the 1995 retro space shooter, inspired by the cult Doom and Quake. The main character of the game is a crew member of the military starship...

Clock Tower: Rewind

Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Old school, Gothic, Survival horror

Game released: Xbox One → 29 October 2024

Metacritic: 68/100

Re-release of the 16-bit horror [url=https://vgtimes.ru/games/clock-tower-1997/] Clock Tower[ /url]. The game tells the story of orphan Jennifer. She ended up in...

MULLET MADJACK

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Old school, Indie, Cyberpunk

Game released: Xbox One → 13 March 2025

Players: 6.9/10

Metacritic: 87/100

The game takes place in a future world controlled by artificial intelligence, and the main character is a person who has merged with the network. The goal of the...

Wizordum

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Fantasy, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 23 September 2025

Players: 8.2/10

A retro game about a magician who goes in search of the source of Chaos. Using a wide arsenal of spells and magical items, the main character makes his way through...

Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy, Platformer, Slasher, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 10 December 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Updated version of the cult action-adventures Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2. Both classic projects have received significantly...

Scott Pilgrim EX

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 3 March 2026

Metacritic: 75/100

An action adventure based on the comic book series of the same name and made in the format of a pixel beat-em-up. Players have to save Toronto from chaos caused by...

Bahnsen Knights

Visual novel, Detective, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 14 December 2023

The game takes place in 1986 in Tornado Alley, USA. The main character is an undercover agent who has infiltrated a religious cult known as the Knights of Banzen...

Bloomtown: A Different Story

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 24 September 2024

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game takes place in a pleasant American town in the 1960s. Emily and her younger brother Chester come here for the summer holidays. Something strange begins to...

Anarkade

Action, Platformer, Side view, Online, Fighting, Old school, Comedy, Futurism (Future)

Game released: Xbox One → 24 September 2024

A multiplayer shooter with pixel graphics and intense battles in the style of platformers. To defeat opponents, players use a variety of tricks and an arsenal of...

Demonic Supremacy

Shooter, First-person view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Old school, Demons

Game released: Xbox One → 28 July 2023

A whirlwind old-school shooter set in the year 3481. An infernal tower arose on the surface of the planet, and with it hordes of bloodthirsty demons and monsters...

ChainStaff

Action, Platformer, Side view, Science fiction, Old school, Metroidvania

Game released: Xbox One → 8 April 2026

A hardcore action-platformer with an unusual spear-hook, powerful weapon upgrades, and a cool soundtrack. The events of the game take place on Earth, which has been...

Space Roguelike Adventure

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike, Action, Futurism (Future), Indie, Old school

Game released: Xbox One → 11 October 2022

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Best Games in the Old school genre for Xbox One