Multiplayer is a mode in a video game, in which more than one player can play in the same environment simultaneously, either over the internet or locally. During the earlier history, games came with only single-player activity, in which the player competes against the preprogrammed AI opponent. Multiplayer games enable players’ interaction with other players from all over the world in partnership, rivalry or competition, offering them with social interaction absent from Single-player video games. In Multiplayer games, the player can compete against two other players, work as a team with other partners to complete the requirements of the goal, and more. Multiplayer video games usually need players to share the single game’s resource system or use the network to play over a long distance. There are two types of Multiplayer mode such as Non-Networked and Networked. Some earlier video games were offered two-player gameplay, including Sports, Fighting, Racing, and more. The first two-player game was developed in 1973 pm PLATO system. Network-based multiplayer games enable a specific number of players to participate in the same environment of the game, interact with each other, share resources, number of weapons and struggle to advance through the game by overcoming or defeating massive bosses. Looking for best Multiplayer video games, then try this list out.

18 Best Multiplayer Games for Xbox One

#1 Fortnite

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Fortnite offers the superb blend of Third-person Perspective, Battle Royale, Survival, and Sandbox elements and supports Co-op, Single-player, and Online Multiplayer modes developed and published by Epic Games for multiple platforms. The game is about exploration, scavenging items, crafting weapons, building different structures, and fighting against hordes of enemies and zombie-like creatures. There are different characters from which the player can select his favorite one to start his adventure. In Fortnite game, players need to work together to scavenge items that they can use to defend and build structures and complete a variety of objectives to progress through the game.

During the gameplay, the player can edit each wall of the structure with a 3×3 grid, roofs, lay downstairs, and more. The game contains two different modes, one of which is Fortnite: Save the World, offering a co-op shooter-survival gameplay for up to four players to battle against zombies and defend objects using fortification players can build. The second mode of the game is Fortnite Battle Royale mode which comes with free-to-play Battle Royale gameplay where up to 100 players parachute on an island to battle against each other to be the last person standing. There are four different character classes such as soldier, ninja, constructor, and Outlander each class has its unique abilities and personality.

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#2 Rayman Legends

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Rayman Legends is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platformer video game created by Ubisoft Montpellier and Ubisoft Casablanca. The game provides with a similar game-play to Rayman Origins and allows up to 4 players for a simultaneous game-play in which you can explore dungeons, haunted lands and fight against vampires, ghosts, and the living dead etc. Rayman Legends provides with 120 levels of pure awesomeness, additional Lums and Teensies. This super cool re-mastered version of the game actually is a war going on between the Teensies and their nightmares so you must get up from you 100 yearlong sleep, encounter the nightmares and the Dark Teensies and free the 10 princesses and the good Teensies. Rayman Legends is a great Action-Adventure, and Puzzle platformer video game, do try it out.

#3 XCOM

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XCOM is a Series Multi-genre video games and offers a versatility throughout the series. Strategy, RTS, turn-based tactics, Real-time Tactics, Simulations, Construction and Management, Military and War gaming, Space Flight, FPS, Third-person Shooting, Action, RPG, etc. are all the genres in which XCom offers games. XCom series was originally started back in 1994 by a company known as MicroProse. MicroProse published in total six games with two of them cancelled. The series rocked the markets but soon it lost the business until the series was rebooted in 2005 by 2K Games. The Series once again started with a mega hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown and broke all the previous records. With critically acclaim and commercial success, the company launched an Expansion pack named as XCOM: Enemy Within, back in 2013 and another title XCOM 2 in 2016. From the very beginning to the latest release of the series, XCOM has maintained the standard and the quality of content and is one of the most favorite series of games throughout the world. Players who typically love playing games with Sci-Fi and Action elements, can play the games in the series and enjoy.

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#4 Halo

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Halo is a Militaristic Sci-Fi First-person Shooter video game series created and published Bungie, Ensemble Studios, and 343 Industries. The whole series focuses on an Interstellar War between the two most brutal enemies in the Galaxy, Humans and a Theocratic Alliance of Aliens named as Covenant. The main focus of the series remains on one particular character named as Master Chief John 17, a Supersoldier from an advanced breed of Soldiers known as Spartans. An Artificial companion, Cortana companies the Master Chief throughout the series. Halo Series offers a lot of other characters of utmost importance in the games and provides with different interconnected stories, objectives and environments as well. The series offers multi-genre games as well as Novels, Graphic Novels, and loads of other products. Halo Series offers 3 main titles as the Original Trilogy including Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2 and Halo 3 along with Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians (As Reclaimer Saga releases), 5 Spin-offs Halo Wars, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach, Halo: Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike. Furthermore, Halo Series offers hardcore Action-packed video games, all packed up with different interconnected stories, different objectives, unique characters, and all the incredible Intergalactic conflicts over the possession of a Super Weapons called Halo Rings and of course to survive.

#5 Forza Horizon 3

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Forza Horizon 3 is a Racing, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Studios. The game takes place in an open-world environment called Austria, and it is the ninth marvelous entry in the series of Forza video game. It offers the similar gameplay to its predecessors. There are many licensed vehicles available, and you can select one of them to start your race against AI controlled character or against another player in a variety of events including time trials, drifting and more. Explore the detailed environment from a third-person perspective and take a chance to show off your driving skills and abilities in front of friends to impress them. Earn reputation points and use them to upgrade your vehicles and unlock further cars in the game for an ultimate race. To win the race, you have to cross the finish line first before your opponents or eliminate your competitors from race using your racing abilities. With the superb detailed open world, new vehicles, challenging events, etc. Forza Horizon 3 is the best game as compared to other Racing games. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

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#6 Overwatch

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Overwatch offers a brilliant combination of Team-based Online Multiplayer and FPS (First-person Shooter) elements and allows the players to enjoy an incredibly Fast-paced gameplay. Developed and published by the top notch company, Blizzard Entertainment, Overwatch lets the players select any of the two teams, select any of the six pre-defined Players Characters and get into the already raging gameplay to enjoy it. The characters in the game ar all laced up with their own unique Movements, Skills and abilities that the players can use during the gameplay and earn some control points by defeating other players. There are four types of major Character Classes such as Defense, Offense, Support and Tank and players are allowed to select any one of them at the beginning. With a brilliant show of Squad-based Combat and all the bullet blazing fun, Overwatch offers four main character types, four different Map types (Assault, Control, Escort and Assault Escort). It offers several game modes as well including a brief Tutorial Mode, Practice Modes, Casual matchmaking Modes, Weekly Brawl Modes, Competitive Gameplay Modes and Custom Games, etc. With a fantastic and Futuristic game setting, a great backstory, beautiful graphics and enhanced game mechanics, Overwatch is a fun Multiplayer FPS video game to play and enjoy.

#7 Dark Souls 3

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Dark Souls 3 is recently released marvel and a fantastic new addition to the Dark Souls series. This amazing Single and Multiplayer Action-RPG offers gameplay similar to its predecessors but includes a lot of new weapons (Bows, Projectiles, Shields and Swords etc.), enemies, new attack types, new Combat features, new skills and abilities etc. Dark Souls 3 takes you to the Kingdom of Lothric where the First Flame is dying out and because of that the Age of Dark is about to come. Your task is to get into the character of an Undead known as the Ashen One, and stop the Age of Dark and the Apocalypse of Dead from happening. In order to achieve the goals, you must find and return the three Lords of Cinder and the Prince Lothric to the Firelink Shrine before it’s too late. The Lords of Cinder abandoned their thrones years back and they are all protected by the Watchers, a group of Warriors and are linked as one by the soul of Yhorm the Giant (Single Soul). You must fight off the Yhorm the Giant and the Lords of Cinder, collect their essences and powers, bring them back to the Firelink Shrine along with the Prince Lothric and finally return them all back to their thrones. The Lords will then be gone to fight of the Soul of Cinder and all of the Lords who linked the Fires previously, and save the Lothric. Dark souls 3 offers four different endings of the game all based up on the actions you perform during the gameplay. Dark Souls 3 offers a very well written storyline, amazingly addictive and immersive gameplay, enhanced game mechanics and visuals for you to enjoy the game.

#8 Sea of Thieves

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Sea of Thieves is an Action-Adventure, Pirate-themed and Multiplayer video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios. It takes place in an open world environment and brings a thrilling gameplay deals with exploration, steering, firing cannons and more. In the game, the team of players traverse and navigate the open-ended environment via a ship of a pirate to fulfill various tasks to score the points. The player can embark himself on epic quests to collect loot, score the points and engage in deadly combat with other players from around the world. During the gameplay, the player can interact with the environment and non-player characters to progress through the story and can explore the landscape from a first-person perspective. It offers a beautiful world and the player can team up with other players and can battle enemies to score the points to prove himself as the best pirate in the game. With the highly detailed environment, wonderful graphics, and smooth controls, Sea of Thieves is the incredible game to play and enjoy.

#9 Roblox

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Roblox, developed and published by Roblox Corporation is an MMO (Massively Multiplayer online) and a Sandbox video game available to play on PC, Mac OS X, iOS and Android platforms. The game lets you be part of a virtual world by selecting and customizing an online avatar for yourself, explore an open world, interact with a lot of online players, play games together, make friends online and focuses on your creative and building abilities by manipulating the blocks and create whatever you want. You can talk over the mic or chat with your friends via an online text based platform. Everything you see in the game is basically situated inside the differently stylized, sized and colored bricks and blocks, and offers you a unique experience of Voxel based sandbox gaming. You get to visit different places, some provided by the game itself and some user created (Maps created by Lua 5.1 Programming Language), you can walk, run, jump, ride on skateboards, bikes, cars etc. and buy houses to live in. Roblox allows you to buy a structure and decorate it according to your likes and dislikes. If you don’t like a building or you want to destroy something you can totally bring it down and rebuild just according to your style and demands. The game provides you with best 3D graphics, two types of virtual currency (Tickets and Robux) to buy things, a lot of upgrades that you can buy with Tickets or Robux and a lot of other exciting things to do and enjoy.

#10 Bully

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Bully is an Open-World RPG Action game developed by Rockstar Games. The game’s main character is “Jimmy” who stands up against all the Bullies at Bullworth Academy. He puts his best efforts hard to bring peace and save all the weaker ones against all the bullies. Bully offers a Third-person perspective and allows you to navigate through the game world mostly on foot, Cycle or Skateboard. Your task is to get into the role of Jimmy, get admitted into the Bullworth Academy, Find out all the bullies and let them learn the hardest lessons to stop them from bullying.

Your main task is to bring peace to the Academy and be the one true savior of all the bullied. Besides your Bully hunting routines, you are also required to attend classes, hang out with your friends and be a normal student. Bully offers a multiplayer mode for the game in which you can compete with any of the players for higher rankings doDo give it a try if you haven’t yet and enjoy kicking bullies.

#11 The Jackbox Party Pack

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The Jackbox Party Pack mixes the Board, Trivia, Strategy, Co-op, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Jackbox Games, Inc. The game focuses on Party elements and introduces five different party games such as The Comedy Bluffing, The Bizarre Drawing, the Racy as you want to fill the blank word, and more. It offers easy to play, but hard to master gameplay. There are hundreds of new questions are available in trivia sensational. The player can invite his friends or family members to play with him and can show off his skills to impress them. There are different levels available with increasing difficulties, and the ultimate task of the player is to score the highest points compared to opponents to win the match. The player can enjoy hundreds of new questions and can test his knowledge and score the points. With superb gameplay, mini-games, and brilliant mechanics, The Jackbox Party Pack is the best game to play and enjoy.

#12 Zoo Tycoon

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Zoo Tycoon is 2001’s wonderful business Simulation by Blue Fang Games. The game tasks the players to manage a zoo, make profit and eventually by growing up, become a zoo tycoon and enjoy collecting wealth resources and enjoy. Zoo tycoon is available to play on Only XBox Platforms so it offers a bit of different gameplays for both of the devices. In the XBox Version of the game, it offers a 15 hour long campaign mode in which you can enjoy the freedom of exploration (Infinity Mode) and the game will task you to complete a number of small tasks. The XBox version of the game also features Kinect-based gameplay that offers more detailed gameplay and loads of fun. However, in the XBox 360 version of the game allows you to enjoy a bit of different gameplay in which you can have almost 65 different animals in the game world, and the game offer a bit of inferior visual details and it only features Single Player mode. Zoo ycoon with all the amazing environments, beautiful visuals, addictive gameplay and loads of other exciting things in totally worth playing. Do give it a try if you haven’t yet played it.

#13 Prototype

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Prototype is an Action-Adventure, RPG, Stealth and Third-person Shooter video game by Activision. The game offers an Open World Environment, and it is set in Manhattan, USA. Prototype follows the character of an Amnesic and powerful Shapeshifter named as Alex Mercer, who sets out to fight against the Blacklight, a deadly plague that consumes the humanity of Individuals and converts them into altered ferocious monsters. Alex keeps on fighting the monsters as well as finding the truth about his lost past. Struggling hard against the monsters, Alex also comes into massive conflict with the US military and the operatives of Blackwatch, a Black operation force. With the freedom to roam free, Alex keeps on getting farther into the enemy territory and finding the secrets while the player controls the character of Alex Mercer. Prototype offers plenty of room for gameplay along with sophisticated weaponry, fantastic graphics quality, and excellent combat mechanics. Prototype provides the ability to experience the game in Sandbox style while playing it and enjoy it even more. With its amazingly addictive nature, Prototype is one of the most played and liked Action-Adventure, Stealth, and Shooter video game. It also has a sequel named as Prototype 2 that expands the story to further distances and enhances the great experience. Do try it out.

#14 Elite Dangerous

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Elite Dangerous combines the elements of Space Trading, Adventure, Combat, and Simulation. It offers both Single and Multiplayer modes developed and published by Frontier Developments. The game takes place in the fictional galaxy called Cutthroat and offers an open environment to explore. It lets the player create and customize his own starship and explore the realistic 1:1 Scale Galaxy focused on Milky Way. It has three different factions such as the Federation, the Empire, and the Alliance. To get into the game world, the player must select his faction and complete a series of challenging missions and earn fabulous prizes. He can trade with other to earn money and use to unlock further content. Protect the galaxy from rival factions and fight against enemies using weapons. The game unlocks other galaxies and milky ways as the player complete the series of objectives. He can upgrade his ship with different items and weapons using the money. Elite Dangerous offers key features such as a variety of Missions, different Ships, Unique Game Experience, over 400 Billion Star Systems, and more. Elite Dangerous is the wonderful game to play and amuse.

#15 Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm

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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (known as Naruto: Narutimate Storm in Japan) is a Single-player and Multiplayer Fighting video game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai. The game serves as the first entry in the series of Ultimate Ninja Storm video game available to play on multiple platforms. It retains most of gameplay components from previous installments of the series, enabling the players to battle in 3D environments, as opposed to the 2D planes in earlier games. It comes with one of the few features is Awakening Mode, that the player can activate when the player loses his certain amount of health during the competition. During the gameplay, the player unleash the powerful the jutsu attacks, perform stunning acrobatic moves, and even run up walls and more. There are multiple playable characters available from which the player can select his favorite one to participate in game where he has to battle against opponent. The player can interact with non-player characters, and use the combination of attacks to take down enemies. With superb gameplay, addictive graphics, and Third-person Action, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm is the best game to play and enjoy.

#16 Dead Space

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Dead Space is a 2008’s Sci-Fi, Horror-Survival, and Third-person Shooter video game published by EA (Electronic Arts). The game is set in the future in the year 2508 and features the character of the protagonist named Isaac Clarke who works as an engineer. The game kicks off with a distress signal from one of the Mining Ships USG Ishimura, harvesting the Ore from a Planet named as Aegis VII. After getting the Distress Signal, CEC (Concordance Extraction Corporation), sends in another Ship USG Kellion to investigate the matter. The Protagonist Isaac along with Commander Zack Hammond and Computer Expert Kendra Daniels gets forwarded to the Ship and upon their arrival at the USG Ishimura, USG Kellion crashes on the docks of USG Ishimura due to some technical issues. After boarding off, Isaac Clarke starts to investigate the malfunctions in ship’s systems and soon encounters the Necromorphs, The Monstrous Reanimated Human Corpses. This is where the player gets in and controls the character of Isaac Clarke. Player’s task is to find the causes of ship’s systems malfunction, repair the system and send the distress signal to USG Valor to get rescued. Finding the Hive Mind (A creature that controls all the Necromorphs) and creating the “Dead Space” is one of the primary objectives of the game as it helps make all the Necromorphs dormant and it is the only way to survive the infestation. With a very story-centric and action-packed gameplay, brilliantly portrayed narrative and all the incredible thrill, Dead Space offer a great Sci-Fi experience of the game. Dead Space offers loads of various types of weapons to kill the Necromorphs, loads of items to collect and upgrades to enhance the efficiency as well as tons of entertaining aspects. For all those who love playing Action, Horror and Survival games with a Sci-Fi touch, Dead Space would definitely be a great entertainer.

#17 Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain

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Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain is a Downloadable Content Pack for original game Forza Horizon 3 published by Microsoft Studios. The DLC Pack brings snowy, ice, elevations and blizzards to challenge players in their epic quests to become the mountain’s king. There are lots of vehicles available from which the player needs to select his favourite one to participate in the game and struggle to navigate the ultimate playground. It offers eight new cars and trucks such as 2016 Ford and more. During the gameplay, the player needs to compete in stimulating new environments like Descent, Hill Climb, and Blizzard Races. He can discover new Buckets, Rival Events, Live Achievements, a new Card. and more. The player can explore the environment in both from either a first-person view behind steering or a third-person viewpoint. The game comes with improved physics, mechanics, gameplay, and graphics. Forza Horizon 3 Blizzard Mountain includes prominent features such as 8 New Vehicles, Snowy Environment, Become the King of Mountain, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

#18 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth combines the elements of Rough-like, Dungeon Crawling, Shooter, Action-Adventure and Horror developed and published by Nicalis. The game supports both single and multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story of the Binding of Isaac inspired by the childhood of McMillen growing up in a religious family. You take on the role of the young boy known as Isaac whose mother locks the protagonist in his room and convinced she is doing the job of god. His mother wants to sacrifice Isaac to prove here faith, Isaac becomes scared and escapes to the basement and lock himself. The game takes place in the fictional underground world full of monsters, and strange creatures. Explore the game world, fight against monsters, and other creatures to complete several missions and earn points that you can use to unlock upgrades. You have to gather items and power-ups to enhance your abilities and take down foes. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant visuals, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.