Nominees for Destructoid’s Best Xbox game of 2023

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It’s the end of the year, which means we’re rolling out our nominations for the best-in-category for various different platforms and denominations here at Destructoid. Today, we’re taking a look at our list of nominees for the Best Xbox game of 2023, and it’s an interesting pack.

To reiterate our guidelines, we kept nominations to one apiece for each game. Meaning, if one game doesn’t show up here, it can still show up in another. And our eligibility window runs from December to December. Sorry, Avatar.

For Xbox, it was an interesting year. Some high-profile games hit troubled waters, making the first-party field a bit interesting. (If you’re wondering where Starfield is in our GOTY field, well, stay tuned!) But Xbox Game Pass remained an excellent way to play a bunch of cool games for comparatively less, making our Xbox nominees really feel more like a Best Of Game Pass lineup.

Here’s our list of nominees for Best Xbox game of 2023.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor may have had some PC woes, but it was a generally enjoyable experience for our reviewer and other players on the console side. Even considering the technical troubles, fans do seem pretty positive on Respawn’s follow-up to its single-player Jedi story.

It’s strange to think that Hi-Fi Rush, a music brawler from Tango, was one of the more notable launches from Xbox this year. But like Pentiment before it, the smaller and more focused projects from the Xbox studios have had a lot of charm to them. It could just end up being the standard-bearer this year.

One of a few games that felt like it fell by the wayside this year, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty made some waves as the latest Team Ninja action game, tackling the Three Kingdoms setting. Several folks at Destructoid were