Action RPGs (also known as ARPG or Action Role-playing) are a subgenre of Role-playing video games. The game mixes the real-time combat, turn-based tactics, and menu-based combat elements. In real-time combat, the player can control the character directly and can attack enemies using various types of weapons. These games often use in action-based combat system similar to other shooter and hack-and-slash games. ARPGs may incorporate Action-Adventure games, which introduce a mission-based system and Role-playing mechanics, or MMORPGs focus on Real-time Combat Systems. In these games, the player manipulates the environment from isometric, first-person or third-person perspectives. Battle against enemies in turn-based combat in most of the games and take down to earn XP or experience points which the player can use to raise up his abilities and skills. There are other subgenres of Action RPGs such as First-person Dungeon Crawl, Point-and-Click, Role-playing Shooter, and more. Most of the game first-person perspective computer games up until the last 1980s were focused on turn-based elements, through the few had attempted to mix the real-time elements such as Alternate Reality: The City, Dungeons of Daggorath, and more.

20 Best Action RPGs for Xbox One

#1 Final Fantasy XV

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Final Fantasy XV is an Action Role-playing and Single-player video game created and published by Square Enix. The game takes place in the stunning open world environment called Eos and focuses on action-based battle system similar to Kingdom Heart. It is the fifteen main entry in the Final Fantasy series. The player can assume the role of the protagonist named Noctis and the story revolves around his struggle to retake his homeland and his magical crystal. There are other character who helps the protagonist during his journey such as Gladiolus, Prompto and Ignis. Final Fantasy XV uses real-time battle system focuses on action and lets the player navigate the open world consists of forests, mountains, villages, and more. Complete a series of quests, use a variety of weapons, battle against foes and their bosses to recover your homeland and it magical crystal. The game rewards the player with experience points and allows him to purchase different tools, equipment and more. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, excellent soundtrack, and lots of action, Final Fantasy XV is the best game to play and enjoy for those who love playing Role-playing games.

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#2 Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director’s Cut

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Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director’s Cut is a Cyberpunk-themed, Sci-fi, Action Role-playing, and First-person Shooter video game takes place in the dystopian open world environment. The game comes with a Single-player mode developed by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix. In the game, you assume the role of the protagonist named as Jensen, who is a former Swat Specialist and has been selected by the most experimental biotechnology firms of America to oversee the defenses. The ultimate goal of the player is to protect the complex secrets of the company. According to the story, the black ops team attacks and kills the team of scientists that you were selected to guard the secrets, then your job changes. The game offers near-future environment where you discover a time of massive technological advancement, but also a time of conspiracy and chaos. Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Director’s Cut includes prominent features such as Perfect Mix of Action and Role-playing, lots of Challenging Missions, Upgrades, a huge Arsenal of Weaponry, First-person Experience, and more. Check it out.

#3 Mystik Belle

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Mystik Belle is a 2D Action Role-playing, Side-scroll, and Metroidvania video game created and published by the Last Dimension. The game takes place in the stunning environment and introduces the pixel graphics. You take on the role of the protagonist, who is a student of mystical arts. The story revolves around the protagonist, who has few friends, the teachers and the staff of his school are such means. Puff in Dragonland, SlightlyMagic and the Dizzy series inspire the game. The game mainly focuses on adventure and point-and-click elements. The player can take on the role of the female protagonist and can manipulate the world from a side-scroll perspective. There are various levels available with increasing difficulty, and the player needs to face up to 10 challenging boss fight to progress in the story. During the game, the player can interact with non-player characters, solve inventory puzzles and score points by defeating enemies like other adventure games. With superb mechanics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant controls, Mystik Belle is the best game to enjoy and play.

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#4 Destiny: The Taken King

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Destiny: The Taken King is a Downloadable Content Pack for Destiny, and it serves as the 3rd expansion in the game developed by Bungie and published by Activision. The game mixes the First-person Shooter, Action Role-playing and Exploration elements and supports Multiplayer mode. In the game, the story focuses on Oryx, the Taken King and his struggle for revenge after the player slew his son named as Contra in the first DLC pack. During the gameplay, the player has to face the Tekken, and the army of corrupted aliens forced to battle for him. The DLC pack introduces new missions, awesome locations, PvE, and PvP maps, gear, weaponry, and more. As compared to previous expansion packs, the game features three new multiplayer missions and seven new maps. It has three new modes such as Capture the Flag, Zone Control, and Mayhem. A new faction of enemies known as titular Taken is present in the game. The player can explore the world from a first-person perspective, battle foes to fulfil the requirements of each level and earn points. With enhanced mechanics, brilliant gameplay, and superb graphics, Destiny: The Taken King is the best expansion pack to play.

#5 The Escapists 2

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The Escapists 2 is an Action-Adventure, Role-playing, Online, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Mouldy Toof and published by Team17 Digital Ltd. The game takes place in the toughest prisons in the world and lets you assume the role of the protagonist, who must find a way to escape by crafting items, stealing objects and more. There is chance to navigate the massive prisons, with several floors, vents, tunnels and roofs. During the event, you have to follow the prison rules, doing prison jobs, follow strict jobs and attending the roll calls, while mysteriously finding a way to escape. In the beginning, you can select the huge variety of customization and can enhance your character’s abilities. You can team up with three friends and create escape crew and engineer. As a prison, you can use a limited tools at your disposal. To craft ultimate tool or equipment, you have to unleash your creativity, use your wits and create an amazing tool which assist you in your escape. The Escapists 2 includes core features such as Craft your Escape, Prepare for a Fight, discover new Ways to Escape, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

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#6 Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2

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Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 is an Action, Role-playing, Fighting, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Dimps and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game serves as the sequel to Dragon Ball: Xenoverse and offers the similar gameplay to its predecessor. It takes place in the three-dimensional world called Canton City. There are several characters available from which you can select one of them to start your battle against powerful enemies like Frieza and more. You can navigate the environment from a third-person perspective and can use special moves to take down enemies within no time. Each character in the game has its unique skills and abilities that you can use to defeat foes. The story starts after two years of the first title, and the primary character receives a severe mission from Elder Kai, which involves retrieving history after it has altered. As the story progresses, the game becomes tough to accomplish. With prominent features, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Dragon Ball: Xenoverse is the best game to play and enjoy.

#7 Hyper Light Drifter

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Hyper Light Drifter is an Action Role-playing, 2D, Single and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Heart Machine. The game offers an exciting gameplay and takes place in the beautiful ruined world invaded by unknown dangers. The story revolves around the protagonist, who is a Drifter and get access to a lost technology that has been vanished and is suffering from illness. The character is equipped with a powerful sword and can get access to other weapons as he completes a variety of quests. The protagonist needs to expand the world to find rate batteries around the globe and unlocks the ability of weapons and arsenal. It includes a Role-playing game with area attack and long-range weapons. The game lets you get into the role of the protagonist and your ultimate aim is to explore the world from a top-down perspective, fight against enemies and defeat them using a variety of weapons and progress through the game to survive longer. It offers a beautiful and vast world to manipulate. Upgrades, different Weapons, New Skills, Traverse a Dark World, detailed Environment, Background Elements, Hand-Animated Characters, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Try it out.

#8 Fallout 4: Far Harbor

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Fallout 4: Far Harbor is a Downloadable Content Pack for the video game Fallout 4 released in 2015. The game is a mix of Action Role-playing, Exploration, First-person Shooter, and Adventure developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Games. The game offers an exciting gameplay and takes place in the three-dimensional world aftermath of nuclear war in the year of 2287. In this DLC pack, a detective agency selects the protagonist to investigate the disappearance of a young girl in a fictional area. The player can manipulate the environment in both First and Third-person Perspectives. The game is about solving puzzles, completing quests, earning experience points and interaction with NPCs. To start the game, the player requires to take on the role of the protagonist, and his ultimate task is to explore the post-apocalyptic world full of challenging quests. The game rewards the player with experience points that he can use to unlock further content in the match. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, superb visuals, and smooth controls, Fallout 4: Far Harbor is the best game to play and enjoy.

#9 Tom Clancy’s The Division: Survival

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Tom Clancy’s The Division: Survival is a Downloadable Content Pack for Tom Clancy’s The Division and introduces new hostile environment with brutal weather conditions. The DLC pack features a new mode called Survival mode. The game is a mix of Action Role-playing, Third-person Shooter, and Survival elements and supports Multiplayer mode. It takes place in the fictional Manhattan, offering the open world with destructive environments. The player can assume the role of the protagonist, who must investigate the virus which turns the people into zombie-like creatures. The player can carry three different weapons, mines to battle against enemies and explosives like bombs. Using stealth elements, the player can hide behind objects during firefights to avoid bullets. He explores the environment from a third-person perspective, and the game rewards him with experience points, as the player completes an objective. The game becomes challenging, as the player progresses. Tom Clancy’s The Division: Survival offers prominent features such as breathtaking Environments, NPCs, a variety of Weapons, and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain the player.

#10 Marvel Heroes Omega

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Marvel Heroes Omega is an Action Role-playing, Massively Multiplayer Online, and Free-to-play video game created by Gazillion Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers the extensive variety of iconic superheroes, villains, and locations from the Universe of Marvel in the history of the match. There are a variety of superheroes available, and the player chooses his favorite hero to engage himself in fighting against villains and enemies. It takes place in the open world environment threatened by villains, and the primary objective of the player is to navigate the world from isometric view and pits against enemies using his special abilities. In the game, each character has its unique abilities, super powers, and a set of attributes. The player can move freely in any direction and can slay enemies to earn XP points to level up. There are other players available from all around the world to interact with the player controlled by you, and you can team up with them to face off massive enemy faction. Marvel Heroes Omega offers core features such as Action Role-playing, Team up, Gather favorite Characters, Customization, Story Mode, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

#11 Final Fantasy Type-0 HD

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Final Fantasy Type-0 HD is an Action Role-playing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game created and published by Square Enix. It offers the similar gameplay to Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, in which the player assumes the role of the protagonist to participate in real-time combat during mission around the stimulating environment of Orience. During the gameplay, the player can engage himself in massive strategy battles on the map of the world. The story centers on the class zero, a team of fourteen students from the Vermillion Peristylium. The fourteen students are sent on an epic mission to explore the landscapes, fight against enemies and crush them before they spread chaos everywhere. The game introduces two different types of missions such as Story-based Missions and Practice-based Missions. The player explores the world from a third-person perspective and can use ranged weapons to kill monsters and enemies to save the world. Final Fantasy Type-0 HD includes core features such as Command, a Team, Kill Enemies, Side-quests, Navigation, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#12 Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition

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Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition is an Action Role-playing, Tactical, Real-time Combat, and Adventure video game published by Paradox Interactive and developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The game takes place in the thrilling environment of Eora and brings a wonderful gameplay with memorable characters, and tactical element. The player takes on the role of the protagonist and can explore the environment from an isometric perspective. The primary objective of the player is to navigate the procedurally generated map, and battle against enemies using ranged weapons to kill them and earn experience points. It offers the similar character classes and game mechanics to Dungeons and Dragons. Fighter, Barbarian, Wizard, Priest, Cipher, Rogue, etc. are prominent character classes in the game and the player can select one of them to start his epic adventure to fulfill the requirement of each quest. The player can use epic spells to slay monsters and can interact with environment and NPCs to progress through the game. Other features will be unlocked as the player progresses through the game. Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition includes enhanced mechanics, improved gameplay, and wonderful graphics. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#13 Darksiders Warmastered Edition

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Darksiders Warmastered Edition combines the Action Role-playing and Hack and Slash elements and brings a thrilling gameplay for hardcore players who love playing hack and slash games. The game supports Single-player mode only developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ Nordic. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse inspires the game, and the game puts you in the role of the horseman war and explores the environment form a third-person perspective. The atmosphere of the game is split into different locations with multiple areas initially locked until later in the game. The protagonist equips with a mighty sword that he can use to kill monsters, enemies and strange creatures to earn points and collect power-ups to maintain the health bar and raise the power. The team of evil is struggling to take over the world and destroy the humanity, but you are standing like a mountain in their way to control the land. Engage yourself in a real-time battle, and cut down enemies using your sword. Darksiders Warmastered Edition includes prominent features such as Apocalyptic Power, Extreme Arsenal, Epic Quests, Character Progression and more.

#14 Super Dungeon Bros

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Super Dungeon Bros mixes the Action Role-playing, Hack and Slash, and Dungeon Crawling elements developed by React Games and published by Wired Productions for multiple platforms. The game focuses on Multiplayer combat and takes place in the fictional realm called Rokhem consists of different worlds such as Boeheim, Chillheim, and Cryptheim. Each land features a procedurally generated layout that offers different play style. It offers the similar gameplay to Diablo and lets the player select his one of four different characters and travel the labyrinth, explore the dungeon, kill monsters while collecting treasure. The game rewards the player for each completed objective, and he can use to upgrade his equipment and abilities. The player can navigate the land from an isometric perspective along with his other three friends, face monsters, and slay them to using special weapons to earn points. As the player advances through the story, the gameplay becomes tough to master. With addictive gameplay, excellent mechanics, and smooth controls, Super Dungeon Bros is the best game to play.

#15 The Technomancer

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The Technomancer is an Action Role-playing, Third-person Exploration and Single-player video game developed by Spiders and published by Focus Home Interactive. The game takes place in the similar Universe like Spider and set two-hundred year after the event of human colonized Mars known as the War of Water. The player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Zachariah, who must explore the world from a third-person view, interact with environment and non-player characters to progress through the story. During the gameplay, the player can involve companions to his party, who is capable of leveling up. The player can improve his combat abilities and can make different choices about how to accomplish each quest. There are five different possible endings, depending on the decision taken by the player. Using crafting feature, the player can create his armor and weapons to use against foes during real-time battle. Four different skill trees available and the player must earn experience points to unlock additional content. Science Fiction Mars Environment, Dynamic Combat, Post-apocalyptic Red Planet, Three Combat Styles, Unleash Abilities, etc. are prominent features in the game. Try it out and enjoy.

#16 Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of War is an Action Role-playing, Third-person Perspective, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Monolith Productions. The game serves as the sequel to Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, released in 2014. The game starts the previous title’s narrative based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium and takes place after the events of The Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit. The game starts with the story of Talion and the elf lord’s spirit named as Celebrimbor, who shares the body of the protagonist, as they battle against Sauron. It offers open world environment played from a third-person view and cast you in the role of the protagonist who has unique natural athletic and combat skills, offering by the elf lord’s spirits. There are a variety of missions, and each mission contains a set of quests that you must complete at any cost using your parkour, stealth and combat abilities. The game features the hack and slash elements and lets you cut your foes into several pieces using your unique abilities and earn points. Middle-Earth: Shadow of War brings prominent features, highly detailed environment, advanced master, and more. Try it out.

#17 Portal Knights

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Portal Knights is an Action Role-playing and Survive video game with Building elements like Terraria and Minecraft developed by Keen Games and published by 505 Games. The game supports both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and mixes the elements of exploration and building with the role-playing aspects. It takes place in the sandbox environment and offers the freedom to the player to manipulate the world and gather resources to build different structures while fighting enemies to earn points for each kill. Like Minecraft video game, the player can craft multiple items such as swords, pickaxes, and tools to smash objects, battle monsters and build elaborate construction, weapons, and armors. In Single-player mode, the player explores the world alone while in Multiplayer mode, the player can explore and battle with up to four friends simultaneously. The player participates in tactical combat, dodge their attacks in fast-paced action and third-person perspective battles. There are different character classes available, including Mage, Warrior, and Ranger, etc. It has several landscapes available, and each offers new quests and exclusive items in multiple events. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

#18 Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle

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Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle is a Downloadable Content Pack for Dying Light: The Following: Enhanced Edition developed and published by Techland. The game mixes the Action Role-playing, First-person Shooter and Single-player video game available to play on multiple platforms. The DLC pack introduces a new buggy paint job, outfits for your character, armors, four new blueprints, and more. You assume the role of the protagonist with a task to explore the thrilling environment from a first-person perspective to solve multiple objectives. The game takes place in the open world detailed environment, consisting of mountains, jungle, and rivers. You explore the broad landscape either on foot or by vehicle. Fight enemies and take down them to earn experience points that you can use to unlock additional content. The game becomes tough, as you advanced. Immerse yourself in Role-playing gameplay experience and raise up your rank throughout the game. Craft multiple weapons and change the appearance of your character using customization features. Dying Light: Harran Ranger Bundle includes core features such as New Outfits, Weapons, Upgrades, and more. Try it out.

#19 Destiny 2

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Destiny 2 is an Action Role-playing, Online and First-person Shooter video game produced by Bungie and published by Activision for multiple platforms. It serves as the sequel to Destiny, released in 2014. The game offers similar gameplay to the previous title, which was described as FPS (first-person shooter) that incorporates Massively Multiplayer Online and Role-playing elements. It takes place in the exciting environment and introduces new character classes, perks, special abilities, upgrades, and more. After selecting the character, the player needs to explore the land, where he communicates with other players from around the globe and effort to complete a series of missions using a variety of weapons. The game takes the player on an epic and breathtaking journey around the solar system. In the campaign, the player will enter a world populated with compelling characters and battle enemies to come back home. Destiny 2 offers prominent features such as Customization, Find Lost Sectors huge Space to Explore, Social Fun, multiple Modes and more. With improved mechanics, impressive gameplay, and customizable controls, Destiny 2 is the best game to play.

#20 Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an Action Role-playing, and Single-player video game developed and published by Warhorse Studios. The game takes place in the medieval Kingdom of Bohemia in Roman Empire and revolves around realistic content and historical accurate. It will be a Single-player experience with a variety of quests and a detailed world and emergent gameplay. Period armor and clothing, real world castles, combat techniques with the help of historian and architects, etc. features in the game. It offers an exciting story, in which the King has died, and his heirs to save his throne. The brother of the king get an opportunity to kidnap the new king and conquer the Island. The game revolves around the blacksmith’s son, whose family has been slaughtered by a brutal army. The protagonist attempts to take the revenge from the cruel army and struggle to restore the throne to rescue the land. It offers open world environment and includes different character classes. The player can select one of them and customize it skills to assume the role of the bard, warrior, thief and other. With prominent features, exciting gameplay, and brilliant mechanics, Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the best game to play and enjoy.