

In The Witcher 3, you play as a silver-haired sex pest who spends the majority of the game shagging his way up and down the land, occasionally taking a break to fight monsters and, on even rarer instances, engage with the main plot. It’s probably fair to assume that most people reading this list on the best Xbox One RPGs have played The Witcher 3 already, but for the benefit for the 5-6 of you who haven’t, here goes. What more is there to say about The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, potentially one of the greatest games ever made, that hasn’t been said already? Hopefully at least another paragraph and a half for the benefit of this article. Plus, if you really feel like torturing yourself, you can play the Xbox 360 version of DS1 through backwards compatibility, and watch the framerate die as soon as you reach Blighttown. With Dark Souls: Remastered, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin and Dark Souls 3 all available on the Xbox One, all three games should keep you occupied for a long time, even if that’s purely because the bosses keep kicking your arse.

Just look at games like The Surge, Lords of the Fallen and even Darksiders 3 which sought to imitate the Dark Souls formula, to mixed success. Often used as the measuring stick of in-game difficulty, or as a redundant and irrelevant comparison point (“it’s like the Dark Souls of blah blah”), Dark Souls has had an undeniable impact on the world of role-playing games. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
