Amidst the excitement of the Xbox games sale, we both know you’re not going to play all ten of these games right away. Some might sit quietly in your backlog, collecting existential dust. But here’s the truth: these are critically acclaimed, rarely discounted, and now sitting at their lowest price ever — at the time of writing, anyway, thanks to this incredible Xbox games sale.
1. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Genre: Narrative Adventure / Visual Novel
Why You Should Grab It: This trilogy is a legal drama fever dream starring a man who points more dramatically than a Shakespearean actor in a thunderstorm. Courtroom battles, plot twists, and absurd hairstyles — what more could you want? At its lowest price ever during the Xbox games sale, it’s a no-brainer for fans of over-the-top narrative storytelling.
2. Dragon’s Dogma 2
Genre: Action RPG / Open World
Why You Should Grab It: If Skyrim had a younger, angrier cousin who liked to toss NPCs off cliffs and fight cyclopes for breakfast, it’d be Dragon’s Dogma 2. It’s got massive beasts, weird pawns, and the kind of chaotic fun only Capcom could deliver. Now at its lowest price ever, it’s practically begging you to jump in.
3. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Genre: Narrative RPG
Why You Should Grab It: This is BioWare doing what BioWare does best: beautiful disasters of companions, lore dumps, and emotional gut punches. And it’s already out — contrary to what some folks seem to think. You won’t find a better time than during the Xbox games sale to get it at its lowest price ever.
4. Between Horizons
Genre: Metroidvania / Sci-Fi Detective
Why You Should Grab It: This one’s personal. Between Horizons is like Disco Elysium met Return of the Obra Dinn, then built a 2.5D spaceship and said, “Solve me.” Non-linear storytelling, ethics-based choices, and a surprisingly strong philosophical backbone — and it’s never this cheap.
5. Streets of Rage 4
Genre: Brawler / Beat-’Em-Up
Why You Should Grab It: A neon-drenched punch in the face. That’s what this game is. The revival of the classic Sega brawler is everything it needed to be: stylish, brutal, and gloriously co-op, especially now during the Xbox games sale. It hasn’t seen a discount like this since the ‘90s.
6. Gone Home
Genre: Narrative Exploration
Why You Should Grab It: Gone Home is short, sharp, and absolutely gutting. A slice of queer coming-of-age set in a spooky, empty house — this game practically birthed the “walking simulator” genre, and it still hits like a truck. If you somehow missed it, you owe yourself this.
7. Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Genre: Exploration / Wholesome Sim
Why You Should Grab It: This is the antithesis to your violent backlogs. Peaceful, pastel, and joyfully earnest, Alba has you saving animals and cataloging nature on a sun-drenched Mediterranean island. Think Dora the Explorer meets Firewatch, only with more birds.
8. Lacuna
Genre: Narrative Adventure / Sci-Fi Noir
Why You Should Grab It: Imagine Blade Runner fell asleep during a moral philosophy lecture and woke up with a nicotine addiction and a migraine. That’s Lacuna — a pixel-art detective thriller where you’re not saving the world, you’re just trying not to screw it up more. Short, tight, dialogue-heavy, and ethically uncomfortable in the best way. At its lowest price ever, it’s like buying a heavy existential crisis… but on sale.
9. The Gap
Genre: Psychological Thriller / Walking Simulator
Why You Should Grab It: Memory, grief, biotech, and alternate realities — all crammed into a minimalist, almost-too-stylish mind trip. The Gap isn’t here to coddle you; it wants you to think about neurons, family trauma, and parallel timelines while slowly peeling your emotional stability like an onion. It’s beautiful. And broken. And very, very cheap right now.
10. Draugen
Genre: First-Person Mystery / Atmospheric Narrative
Why You Should Grab It: From the minds behind The Longest Journey comes a moody walking sim about loss, unreliable narrators, and yelling the name “Lissie” into the fjord-swept abyss. Draugen is haunting, poetic, and just a little odd — which is to say, perfect. Especially now that it’s finally dipped to its lowest price ever.
In Closing: The Sale You Pretend You Didn’t Need
Xbox games sale ENDS ON 9 JUNE!
Whether you’re in it for the heartbreak, the pixelated noir, the emotional detours or the full-blown dragon-riding epics, there’s something here that hits harder than your caffeine dependency. So pick one. Or pick all ten. Just do it before the universe reboots the price tags.
Prices accurate at time of writing. Availability and discounts may vary by region.
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