Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xenoblade Chronicles X is an action role-playing video game and a part of the Xeno series of video games, serving as a spiritual successor to Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii. In a similar fashion to the…
Xenoblade Chronicles X is an adventure developed by Monolith Soft, released 29 April 2015 on Wii U. The main story takes about 100 hrs to finish.
What Xenoblade Chronicles X is
Xenoblade Chronicles X is an adventure game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Xenoblade Chronicles X opens as humanity, warned of its impending destruction in the crossfire between two warring alien races, constructs interstellar arks to escape Earth. However, only a few arks escape the destruction, including the White Whale ark. Two years after launching, the White Whale is attacked and transported to Mira. During the crash-landing, the Lifehold—a device containing the majority of the human colonists—is separated from the White Whale, with lifepods containing colonists being scattered across Mira. The avatar is awoken from a lifepod by Elma and brought back to New Los Angeles. While suffering from amnesia, the avatar joins BLADE, working with Elma and Lin to recover…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Xeno series
Xenoblade Chronicles X is the 12th of 35 entries we hold in the Xeno series. The next entry was Xenoblade Chronicles X: Special Edition in 2015. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 87. The highest-rated entry is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition at 100.
How it was received
Xenoblade Chronicles X holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 76 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 100 hrs.
What it launched against
Xenoblade Chronicles X launched on 29 April 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Mortal Kombat X, Kerbal Space Program and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Mortal Kombat X, Kerbal Space Program, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Xenoblade Chronicles X yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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