The rush of popularity online multiplayer games have received in recent years is certainly beneficial -in most areas – to video game culture, but an often overlooked downside is the effect this popularity has had on single-player games.
With Bethesda going so far as to launch a campaign called ‘Save Player 1’, it’s understandable to fear for the future of gaming when it comes to single player experiences.
Even as nostalgia grips us with memories of trekking through the rugged Mojave in Fallout: New Vegas and submerging ourselves in the underwater city of Rapture in the first Bioshock, the future has our full attention.
So whether you’re currently skulking around Dunwall in Dishonored or eagerly awaiting the ability to possess other tormented souls in upcoming title Agony, single-player games are alive and well. For all the other lone wolves flying solo – here are 17 of the best single player games on the Xbox One.
17. The Turing Test (2016)
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Resilient female protagonist? Check. Menacing disembodied robo-voice? Check. A fancy looking gun that doesn’t fire bullets? Check. This isn’t Portal we’re talking about here, it’s The Turing Test.
Developed by Bulkhead Interactive and published in 2016 by Square Enix, The Turing Test is like a more “sci-fiey” Portal. Playing as Ava Turing players face a number of puzzle rooms and challenges with the accompaniment of T.O.M., Technical Operations Machine.
The game’s namesake is that of the real-life Turing Test, which tests a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligence on the level of a human being. Coming across multiple secret rooms in-between test chambers will reveal that T.O.M. is quite obsessed with the Turing Test. Using an energy gun to collect and fire energy spheres to unlock doors, and power objects, cool space researcher Ava Turing is on a mission to find her distressed crew-mates. Leading up to a subtly awesome finale, the Turing Test is a worthwhile first-person puzzler with a very interesting story.
16. Grand Theft Auto: V (2013)
Before the insanely popular Grand Theft Auto: Online, there was the fifth single-player instalment of Rockstar’s hit series Grand Theft Auto.
Basking in sun-baked Los Santos, GTA V introduced the player to the wonderful world of bank robbing. Deviating from the norm in previous titles, GTA V introduced not only one new protagonist but three. Eventually being able to switch freely between the world-weary, professional bank robber Micheal, the fatally unhinged Trevor, and young, cool-headed Franklin, players were given a whole new experience with each character switch.
Toting a compelling and intense story, GTA V is not just the foundation for an incredible multi-player experience, but a highlight in Rockstar’s catalogue of amazing games. Also, there are cats in-game, CATS! Obviously, that alone qualifies it as one of the best single-player games on the Xbox One.
15. Call of Cthulhu (2018)
Of course, we all await the revival of the Great Old One Cthulhu, but none of us will be lucky enough to have a front-row seat like private investigator Edward Pierce.
An adaption of the 1981 role-playing game and Lovecraft’s short story, Cyanide’s Lovecraftian themed psychological horror “Call of Cthulhu” will combine elements of traditional first-person horror and stealth mechanics to set players on the task of investigating the death of an entire family on Darkwater Island near Boston.
Lucky for Edward Pierce to experience the revival of the Great Old One, unlucky for us that we have to wait to greet the new day until an unspecified time in 2018.
14. Praey for the Gods (2018)
Anyone familiar with 2005 cult classic Shadow of the Colossus will feel right at home in the frigid, dying world of Praey for the Gods. No Matter Studio’s upcoming survival action-adventure is promising some pretty cool things.
Starting out alone and cold, you’ll have to scavenge equipment and gear to survive the freezing and dynamically-generated weather while tracking down giant bosses to climb up on and kill.
Originally starting out as Prey for the Gods, after a short dispute with Zenimax over their trademark of Prey in games the name was changed to Praey for the Gods. Development began in 2014 and a short trailer debuted in October 2015. The team moved to work on the game full-time in 2016. We’re hopeful that 2018 will mark the arrival of this enticing title for the Xbox One.
13. Quantum Break (2016)
Developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft, Quantum Break is a third-person action-adventure full of all the fun stuff that comes with being set in a high-sci-fi setting, like time manipulation!
The game centres around protagonist Jack Joyce who is granted time manipulation powers, thanks to a shoddy time machine accident. As Joyce, you’re up against a variety of intimidating enemies where you can enjoy turning time into a more potent weapon. Incorporating platforming elements, as well as live-action scenes that adapted to the choices you make throughout the game make for an interesting story with pretty good replay value.
Think of all the amazing things you could do with time powers, like filling an enemy with a couple hundred bullets in the blink of an eye. Maybe we could develop some time manipulation powers to get a sequel to Quantum Break.
12. Agony (2018)
Developer Madmind Studios truly is mad with their upcoming survival horror game Agony.
Starting out in the depths of Hell as a poor, tormented soul, players will sneak around demons and solve puzzles that feel like they were made by Satan himself. At the beginning, you’re a lowly soul who recently found themselves in the land of fire and brimstone, but lucky for you being a tormented soul has some advantages.
In the game, players will receive the ability to possess another lesser, and eventually higher level demons, and navigate to the mystical Red Goddess.
Originally planned for release in 2017, players waited in anticipation for this new spin on survival-horror, but the release was pushed back and out of 2017. Lucky for us, Agony now has an official release date of March 30, 2018, and soon we’ll be taking control of various demons and slogging it through Hell on the Xbox One in what looks to be a promising single-player experience.
11. Dishonored 2 (2016)
The sequel to Knife-in-the-dark stealth adventure Dishonored, 15 years have passed since Royal Protector Corvo Attano sought revenge for the death of his empress, Jessamine Kaldwin, and saved the young empress-to-be Emily from the usurpers.
Players have the choice between returning as Corvo or playing an entirely different way as now-current Empress Emily Kaldwin. Both characters are equipped with a unique set of abilities and supernatural powers- should you choose to accept them- creating a vastly different play-style for each.
Either way, you will be forced to leave the lush confines of Dunwall Tower and explore the eastern-European inspired city of Karnaca.
Praised for it’s more challenging and rewarding stealth mechanics, and improved AI, Dishonored 2 is a total overhaul of the original Dishonored’s core foundation. Players will see either Corvo or Emily fighting against the malevolent witch and usurper to Emily’s throne, Delilah Copperspoon, in a beautiful and engaging experience on the Xbox One.
10. Beyond Good and Evil 2 (2018)
It’s hard to hide our excitement when Beyond Good and Evil 2 is mentioned, owing to the fact that the first game teases us with a glimpse into a universe full of diverse cultures, societies, and species. We have held high hopes for a sequel for many years now, with barely any news on development, the future was looking grim but the possibilities seemed endless.
Now, we have a fairly good idea of what the sequel to Ubisoft’s 2003 hit will look like.
Changing things up from the first game, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is going to feature extensive space travel, with the ability to land on a multitude of different worlds so you can help people and discover things you’ve never seen before.
Set long before the events of Beyond Good and Evil, players will assume the role of a character of their own creation and set out to find a trusty crew and explore the universe.
Looking quite ambitious, the main goal of BG&E 2 seems to be focused on travel and exploration, landing on distant worlds and experiencing the unique customs and culture of every varied society. Only time will tell if this prequel is as amazing as the first game in terms of story and characters, but we believe justice will be done and the game will be an amazing tale of space adventures when it hopefully launches this year.
9. Metro: Exodus (2018)
Following the events of Metro: Last Light and Metro: 2033, Metro: Exodus will take players beyond the underground tunnels and into the world of the post-apocalyptic Russian Federation. Facing mutated enemies and hostile humans, players assume the role of Artyom from the first two games, as he ventures out towards the east and a new life.
Offering up both linear and not-so-linear levels, Metro: Exodus is looking to be as exciting as the first two Metro games, with a few new features added in.
One of the most interesting of the new features is the sense of time you’ll experience while watching the story span over the course of a year. Seasons change and dynamic weather will play a part in the new first-person shooter from 4A Games. Development began in 2014 and a fall 2018 release date is planned for this brand-new, yet familiar story set in the terrifying world of tomorrow.
8. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)
You can’t have an amazing game series and skimp on the grand finale that wraps it all up. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is the proverbial bow on top of the glorious present that is the Dishonored series. Playing as Billie Lurk, former professional assassin and right-hand of the infamous Daude, Empress Jessamine Kaldwin’s killer, players will find themselves back in Karnaca on a touching adventure that neatly wraps up any loose ends left by the previous games.
While shorter than the two main games, Death of the Outsider wants for nothing in terms of story and game-play mechanics, with Billie boasting her own unique powers and abilities, players set out to end the one responsible for so much of the strife and turmoil of the world, the mysterious and supernatural Outsider himself.
With a decent amount of lore to learn and baddies to kill, players will feel the weight of this task while they explore as Billie, fighting or sneaking through enemies and tracking down the cult that worships the black-eyed Outsider, who you’ll face in the jarring dimension of the Void.
7. We Happy Few (2017-18)
The happy visage of mid-1960’s English city Wellington Wells seen by it’s delightful and upbeat residents is actually a dark and gritty place. In Compulsion Games’ survival action-adventure title currently in the Game Preview Program on Xbox One, players will assume the role of a real downer.
While the population prances about high as a kite on a hallucinogenic drug called Joy, your character decides to stop buying into the lie and quit taking their medication. Unfortunately, this doesn’t sit well with the local populace and law enforcement, all eager to forget the current war and live in a fabricated reality. Your disruption of their idyllic life is a crime punishable by death and you will surely be noticed and killed if you fail to blend in with the people of Wellington Wells’ various districts.
The world of We Happy Few is procedurally-generated, meaning each new attempt to escape the inevitable societal collapse in time will feature a different world layout, nothing will be the same twice. Keeping an eye out on your hunger, thirst and exhaustion meters are just a fragment of the complex and enjoyable experience Compulsion Games offers us in We Happy Few, which will see a full polished release mid-2018.
6. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017)
Returning to the series’ survival-horror roots, there is a grand sense of exploration in the heart-pounding Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. As Ethan Winters, players will face a family of cannibalistic, infected psychos and mutated horrors called the Molded.
The first game of the series to feature a first-person perspective, the mission to save your wife from the Baker’s is a harrowing experience. In this game, you’re no S.T.A.R.S. agent, you’re a regular person who is often bad at using firearms, and good at dying easily.
The superhuman, nearly invulnerable Baker family isn’t your only foe, players will face a new kind of enemy called the Molded. The Molded are victims of a vicious virus the source of which you will uncover, and try to stop, in this amazingly terrifying game. Having been released January of 2017, story-expanding DLC has since been released to finish up the story of the vile Bakers and all the horror associated with them, thanks in large part to Chris Redfield and the S.T.A.R.S. forces, branded with an Umbrella logo now. Resident Evil 7 is still the subject of many of our nightmares, making it one of our favourite single-player experiences.
5. Skyrim: Special Edition (2016)
When Skyrim was released for the Xbox 360 it was an instant hit, so when it landed on the Xbox One as an enhanced Special Edition bringing with it the ability to use community-created mods, the reception of the 2016 special edition of Skyrim was overall positive.
Returning to the rich world of Tamriel, you’ve found yourself destined for death on the executioner’s block in the Nordic homeland of Skyrim. While the RPG elements are super-solid providing an engaging character creation and advancement system, one of the most amazing parts of Skyrim is the sprawling open-world.
Filled with interesting characters, plenty of side-quests for the procrastinating Dragonborn to go on, and random encounters, the land is a living place made for you to explore every nook and cranny.
With player-made mods only adding to the already improved experience, with just a few select mods you could create your personal best version of Skyrim, and with passionately-created quest mods like the Forgotten City, you’ll be spending even more of your time in Tamriel.
4. Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
Developed by Obsidian and published by Bethesda in 2010, the fourth major instalment of the retro sci-fi RPG series Fallout, Fallout: New Vegas begins with a bullet in your head.
As a courier in the ruthless Mojave Wasteland, you find yourself in possession of a special poker chip that initially costs you your life in the introduction. Once you get back on your feet and dust your shoulders off from the usually fatal interaction a bullet has with one’s head, you’re off to explore the sun-scorched desert around New Vegas (formerly Las Vegas before all the nukes and what-not).
New Vegas stands in high regard among single-player RPG fans, and not just for the vast and varied amount of weapons and armour to choose from. From the setting to the story and the amazing DLC content added-on, Obsidian gave players one of the most memorable gaming experience in the current decade.
While it is certainly important to fulfil your role as either the harbinger of the slave-trading and radical Legion or as a protector to the civil government operated NCR or turning on both sides to guide the Mojave as you see fit, you’ll find yourself constantly side-tracked by numerous interesting side-quests.
Imbuing their characters with colourful personalities, and telling a story that has stuck with us for the past eight years, with DLC content such as Lonesome Road and Old World Blues setting the example for what additional content should aspire to be. Despite having no re-mastered version the game is backwards-compatible on the Xbox One, and Fallout: New Vegas remains a much beloved single-player experience worthy of recognition and a spot in our favourites for a long time to come.
3. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
The highly anticipated sequel to Rockstar’s wild west action-adventure, Red Dead Redemption 2 will drop players back into the American frontier to play as Arthur Morgan, a member of Dutch van Der Linde’s gang playing as an outlaw set before the events of Red Dead Redemption, we’ll most likely see the familiar face of John Marston as we cause chaos across the old west.
With rumours circulating about a first-person mode and various features like using a bow and arrow and dual wielding weapons, it’s easy to get excited for Rockstar’s first release since Grand Theft Auto V in 2013.
While we all eagerly awaited RDR2’s spring 2018 release, the beautiful looking game has been pushed back but has a solid release date of October 26th, 2018.
2. Bioshock: The Collection (2016)
Bioshock changed the first-person shooter genre with its amazing plot and engaging combat experiences. Arriving via violent plane crash in the underwater city of Rapture, there are no gods and no kings, only the spliced-up madmen warring in the once beautiful underwater utopia. Gone mad from their overuse of Plasmids, which alter your DNA to grant you magical powers, Splicers are one of the inhabitants of Rapture to fight as Jack unravels the city’s fall.
A few thousand feet above the Ayn Rand-esque societal downfall happening in Rapture, and few decades in the past, the floating city of Columbia sits as a bastion of religious fanatics and white supremacy.
Booker DeWitt is employed by mysterious figures to travel to Columbia and rescue a girl named Elizabeth, where it is discovered she has the ability to open tears into alternate universes and different times. Both games blend a compelling storyline, amazingly designed setting and complex characters to create an experience like no other FPS.
Coming back with sparkling new Hi-def graphics, the Bioshock Collection contains Bioshock 1 & 2, and Bioshock: Infinite, to give you the perfect reason to jump back into the jarring world the series portrays. For old players, it will bring back memories and for all the new players of the franchise, it will create some wonderful, if not slightly dark memories.
1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
The brilliant world of The Witcher series was truly brought to life in CD Projekt RED’s 2015 mega-hit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Returning to play as the renowned monster-hunting Witcher Geralt of Rivia, players will set out across a brutal world to find Ciri, Geralt’s adopted daughter, before the other-worldly Wild Hunt can take her and destroy all life.
Taking in the high-fantasy setting of a dark and dreary world, players will find the atmosphere heavy with death and disease, poverty and war. Exploring the various areas of cities like Novigrad and Oxenfurt, and roaming the plains of Velen’s No Man’s Land, the setting itself tells a story.
Between slaying monsters like Griffons and Trolls for rewards, exploring the lovingly-crafted world, and completing totally enthralling side-quests, it’s far too easy to sink nearly 200+ hours into the Witcher 3. Considered to be one of the best games of all time, Wild Hunt is the epitome of excellence in single-player RPGs. Various weapons and skills come into play with a leveling system that actually makes you feel like you’re improving with every level-up, the combat is fluid and even when you’re literally slicing a man in half, it’s done in such magnificence and with such grace it’s far too easy to become a fan of bodily separation. This is the game other single-player RPGs should be taking notes from. Having stolen the hearts of many a gamer, the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt deserves its spot as our number one favourite single-player game on the Xbox One.
That’s our top 17 favourite single-player games for the Xbox One, did we leave one of your favourites out? Tell us about it in the comments!
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