Review aggregator Metacritic published today another TOP of the best games of 2022 – this time the best games for Xbox consoles were named. This is a list of the best games for the period from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022.
To get into the TOP, games had to get at least 7 reviews from professional critics. At the same time, if the game was released on both Xbox platforms (Xbox One and Xbox Series X | S), only the version that received more reviews from critics (usually the version for Xbox Series X | S) was allowed to be included in the TOP.
The TOP 40 best games of 2022 for Xbox look like this, 17 of them are available in Game Pass (highlighted in bold):
Elden Ring – 96/100Persona 5 Royal—94/100The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe — 93/100Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course (DLC) — 92/100Rogue Legacy 2 — 90/100Deathloop — 89/100Immortality — 88/100Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge — 87/100Repentance — 86/100Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection — 86/100OlliOlli World — 85/100Citizen Sleeper — 85/100Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels (DLC) — 85/100A Plague Tale: Requiem — 85/100Destinty 2: The Witch Queen — 85/100Tunic — 85/100Two Point Campus — 84/100Crusader Kings III — 83/100Grounded — 82/100Capcom Fighting Collection — 82/100LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga — 82/100Signaled – 82/100Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection — 81/100Weird West — 81/100MotoGP 22 — 81/100Marvel’s Midnight Suns — 81/100F1 22 — 81/100MLB The Show 22 — 80/100Windjammers 2 – 80/100NBA 2K23 — 80/100FAR: Changing Tides — 80/100No More Heroes III — 80/100FIFA 23 — 80/100Young Souls — 80/100Them’s Fightin’ Herds — 80/100F1 Manager 2022 — 80/100The King of Fighters XV — 79/100Metal: Hellsinger — 79/100South of the Circle — 79/100Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series — 79/100