The review section for Xbox horror game One Leaves is filled with all kinds of bizarre reviews, including some offensive ones that have somehow never been removed. Xbox gamers are free to rate and review games through the Microsoft Store. Sometimes gamers leave genuine reviews that offer their thoughts about the games, while other times the review section is used to highlight serious technical issues in the hopes of getting the attention of the game's developers.
Other times still, the review sections for games listed on the Microsoft Store are used to mock the game or otherwise troll people. That's exactly what some Xbox gamers have been doing with the reviews for One Leaves, a strange, free-to-play horror game that tries to double as an anti-smoking PSA.
The reviews for One Leaves on Xbox range from people sarcastically showering it with praise to people trying to out-do each other with dirty jokes. The game came out in 2019, a product of developer Wahoo Studios and publisher Oath Inc, and the reviews have been published regularly since then. Many of them are filled with cancer jokes and are too offensive to publish here, but here's just one example of the strange reviews one can find on the One Leaves Microsoft Store page.
It seems those leaving reviews on the One Leaves Microsoft Store page have three big problems with the game. For one, they don't like that it is effectively a playable anti-smoking ad. Secondly, they aren't happy that the game asks for permission to get the user's info upon starting it up. And third, it's simply a bad game. One Leaves is a technical nightmare, with a sluggish frame rate, graphics that are multiple generations behind, bad lighting, and grating sound design.
As far as horror games go, the argument could be made that One Leaves is the worst game in the genre available on Xbox, and that could be a big part of the reason why fans have decided to fill its Microsoft Store page with troll reviews. Those who are still interested in playing it for themselves should note that it's completely free of charge, takes 30 minutes, and most of the Xbox achievements are bugged.
The premise is that the player character and three others have to make their way out of a labyrinth of horror game cliches, including generic haunted school and hospital settings. The puzzles are nonsensical. The game is just functional enough that players should technically be able to get to the end and see the anti-smoking PSA, though in our testing of the game the PSA flashed on the screen for just a few seconds and wasn't there nearly long enough for us to actually read what it said.
As more people play One Leaves for themselves, it's likely that even more wild reviews will be published about this rather strange game, though it wouldn't be surprising if Microsoft takes steps to moderate some of the more shocking ones.