10 Best Xbox One Games Of 2018

2018 may have been PlayStation's year for its sheer amount of excellent exclusives, but that doesn't mean Microsoft took the year off. Instead it was largely dedicated to the future, with the company purchasing six separate developers that will surely offer stellar titles for their platforms across the rest of the generation and beyond.

In between these big acquisitions, the company was able to release several quality titles. Games like Forza Horizon 4 further illustrate Microsoft's dominance of the racing genre, while Sea of Thieves gave players a multiplayer pirate experience that had all the openness and Rare-style quirkiness you could want.

All exclusives dropped on both Windows and Xbox, opening up the market considerably for those who wanted to get their hands on these games. Some may say that it lessens the appeal of getting an Xbox, but the 'free to choose how you play' mentality that Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has championed will always be a win for the gaming community.

There was a wide array of options for Xbox and Windows players, offering anything from RPGs to online Battle Royale-focused shooters. Don't let anyone make you believe that players on Microsoft platforms were hard done by - the Xbox One had a great year, but only one game can come out on top.

Have you been craving the chance to craft your own death machine for some hard-hitting Robot v. Robot battles? Robocraft Infinity has your back then. A strongly-intuitive building system that will help make the creative process more fun than busywork followed by 5v5 between fellow creators.

Picture making your own Warthogs, Ghosts, or Banshees (among other things) from Halo and playing bumper cars with them, all while everyone is shooting rockets at each other. Creativity is undoubtedly encouraged and it could even give you a secret advantage over those who elected to build something far more familiar/standard.

Team Deathmatch and the capture-point-focused Battle Arena are the central modes offered here, and even if it doesn't seem like it, there's a substantial amount of variety match-to-match. Without the faintest idea of what battle rigs you're going up against beforehand, these fights will always offer something unexpected.