It’s safe to say that streaming game content is the next great stage of the gaming industry. Allowing gamers to download and stream games across the internet to their preferred gaming devices is faster, easier to manage storage and allows gamers to pay a monthly subscription rather than shell out up to $60 a game. One of the most prime examples of this is Xbox Game Pass.
For only $10, gamers can play a wide array of classic and new games for the Xbox One. Here are the 10 highest rated games on Xbox Game Pass according to Metacritic’s website.
10 Rocket League (Metacritic Score: 87)
The first prime example of a hit and highly acclaimed game on the Xbox Game Pass has to be the ever-popular Rocket League. Described by many to newcomers as soccer with rocket-powered cars, Rocket League has up to four players spread out across two different teams.
Using rocket-powered vehicles, players try to hit a large ball into their opponents net, until the match ends and the team with the highest score wins. The game includes both single-player and multiplayer, and recent updates have seen the rules updated to include ice hockey and basketball within the game.
9 Doom (Metacritic Score: 87)
The next best example of a prime AAA title on the Xbox Game Pass is none other than DOOM from Bethesda. Officially the fourth title in the franchise’s main series, DOOM is the first game in the main series since DOOM 3 premiered in 2004.
Following the story of the unnamed and silent Doom Slayer, the hero must traverse a facility on Mars that has unleashed the forces of hell in an attempt to find alternate sources of energy for an energy deficient Earth. This FPS is incredibly popular with a rich history with gamers, making it the perfect title.
8 Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Metacritic Score: 88)
This next game is described as an independent AAA game title, and the deep and emotional storytelling involved in this game speaks to that fact. In Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, gamers are put into the shoes of an 8th century Pict warrior who traverses the North mythological realm of Helheim in order to battle the goddess Hela and save the soul of her true love, who fell at the hands of Viking invaders.
The game is also a metaphor for those struggling with psychosis and trauma, and delivers a riveting story that truly resonates with gamers. It’s a remarkable AAA game.
7 Minecraft (Metacritic Score: 88)
One of the most popular gaming franchises in the whole world made its way not only to Xbox but to the Xbox Game Pass as well, when Minecraft for Xbox One premiered on the service. The game is a massive open world game that allows gamers to build the world around them using 3D blocks.
Having premiered initially eight years earlier, gamers also gather resources, explore, craft items and do battle with various block creatures in the game world. The game itself has won multiple awards and accolades and is considered one of the most popular games among gamers everywhere.
6 Ori And The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition (Metacritic Score: 88)
This next title is unique in that it is an original title to the Xbox One to begin with, having been developed by Microsoft Studios. The game Ori and the Blind Forest follows a white guardian spirit who fell from a tree as a newborn and was adopted and raised by a creature of the forest.
When the forest begins to wither and Ori is orphaned once more, the spirit and a blue orb named Sein must find a way to give life back to the forest before its too late. The game’s artistic style and story were a hit.
5 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Metacritic Score: 88)
One of the most popular games Bethesda Studios has on the Xbox Game Pass has to be the recently released title Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Following the events of the rebooted first game in the series, William J. Blazkowicz is saved from the facility he helped destroy and is sent once more into battle for the resistance against a world occupied and ruled by the Nazi regime.
This alternative history game features action-packed and ruthless gameplay, fantastic storytelling and themes that resonate a lot with modern day gamers. It’s a game of twists and turns all throughout.
4 Fallout 4 (Metacritic Score: 88)
Bethesda’s biggest hit in the Xbox Game Pass service has to be none other than Fallout 4. The hit franchise exploring a post-apocalyptic America in an alternate timeline, players are put into the shoes of their own customized vault dweller, who emerges hundreds of years after the war and must go on a perilous journey to find your infant son, who was stolen from you while you were frozen inside of the vault.
With customizable settlements and more advanced visuals, this game truly redefined the franchise and became an instant hit with newcomers and longtime fans of Fallout alike.
3 Monster Hunter: World (Metacritic Score: 90)
Another fan favorite franchise has seen its return to console gaming and now resides within the Xbox Game Pass service. In Monster Hunter: World, players are put into the shoes of a customizable hunter who works for the Fifth Fleet, one of several fleets sent to explore and research the New World.
This fantasy-driven narrative focuses on the hunter going into the New World and defeating powerful monsters, looting items and the monsters to craft weapons and armor, and establishing safer connections between bases in the game world. It is really easy to see why gamers love this game.
2 What Remains Of Edith Finch (Metacritic Score: 92)
Probably one of the most interesting narrative games in the Xbox Game Pass has to be What Remains of Edith Finch. A one of a kind exploration game that focuses solely on the story rather than action-packed gameplay, the story revolves around the modern-day player character going through the journal of Edith Finch, when she returned to her family home in 2016.
Being the sole survivor of her family, the Finch Family believes themselves cursed, with each generation leaving one survivor behind as the rest pass away. Exploring each family member’s demise is both unique and narratively intriguing.
1 Forza Horizon 4 (Metacritic Score: 92)
The highest rated game on the Xbox Game Pass from Metacritic is none other than Forza Horizon 4. Gamers are put into an open world racing environment within a fictionalized version of the United Kingdom.
Known as the 11th title in the Forza series, this game made a name for itself amongst fans of the franchise and gamers as a whole when it integrated a new gaming system that saw the seasons change, putting racers into environments that included rain-slicked highways, snow-covered mountains and hot summer days. This made the racing game truly a one of kind experience.