Best Xbox One games: 10 best games for Xbox One you can play right now

3. Dirt Rally 2.0

One of the most pleasant surprises of this generation has been Codemasters’ pivot away from the loud-mouthed exploits of old towards more considered racing sims.

The F1 series has moved further and further towards geekery, and has become all the better for it – if you’re looking for one of the best single-player racing games on any console, you can’t go wrong with F1 2019 – and the shift in style all started with the original Dirt Rally, a pleasingly hardcore game that had a good claim to oust Richard Burns Rally as the best ever take on off-road driving.

Initial release date: February 26, 2019
Developer: Codemasters

2. Titanfall 2

If good directing is good writing and good casting, then Titanfall 2 suggests good game design is often a suite of empowering traversal abilities and a bunch of interesting things to do with them. Titanfall 2’s multiplayer was always going to work, its mech-battling, wall-running gauntlets refined over the course of the first game’s lifetime.

Initial release date: October 28, 2016
Developer: Respawn Entertainment

1. Minecraft

The Xbox 360 was the first console you could play Minecraft on, and Xbox still feels like this game’s home-from-home – even through, after acquiring it, Microsoft declined to make it exclusive, and you can play it on pretty much anything. It remains a unique and total original, a fountain of fun and creativity for a whole generation of players, and a deceptively simple sandbox that it’s all too easy to get completely lost in.

Developers: Mojang, Markus Persson, Telltale Games, Xbox Game Studios, 4J Studios