This Xbox Mobile App AI Feature Gave Me Shockingly Good Game Recommendations

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AI has become the go-to shortcut for recommendations — whether you’re looking for your next favorite book, discovering new music that fits your vibe or finding YouTube creators who actually match your interests. When your backlog runs dry, asking a chatbot for suggestions now feels almost automatic.

I realized the same logic applies to gaming — even though I’d been overlooking it. Like most Xbox players, I regularly open the Xbox mobile app to check in on friends, skim through the occasional salty message from a match gone wrong, and see which deals are worth grabbing. What I never did was tap on the Gaming Copilot tab sitting right there.

Once I stopped ignoring it and actually put it to work, I was surprised by how well it understood my gaming taste — and how useful its recommendations turned out to be.

Here’s how Gaming Copilot inside the Xbox app ended up being far more helpful than I expected.

Gaming Copilot nailed my gaming taste with surprisingly good picks

ROG Xbox Ally — (Image credit: Microsoft / Asus)

As soon as I turned on Gaming Copilot, it greeted me with a warm message and made it abundantly clear that it sets out to be everyone’s new personal gaming sidekick. Its toolset includes helping gamers come up with winning strategies, recommending games, and diving into a myriad of other topics.

After reading through that brief overview, I was given the option to choose from eight vocal options that my personal Gaming Copilot would adopt from that point forward:

Vector
Pulse
Echo
Node
Core
Spark
Pixel
Matrix

I picked the “Vector” voice option mostly because it sounded cool, then asked Gaming Copilot to recommend character-driven action games similar to Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden. It immediately recognized the genre, describing it as fast-paced combat games with strong characters and cinematic flair, and returned a clean, easy-to-scan list of recommendations.

The picks were better than I expected. Gaming Copilot surfaced titles like Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Astral Chain, and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, along with brief explanations for why each matched my taste. It even flagged games not currently available on Xbox and cited the sources behind its recommendations, factoring in my recent play history along the way.

Gaming Copilot pulls smart Game Pass picks you can download right now

Xbox Game Pass Core — (Image credit: Microsoft)

Gaming Copilot didn’t stop at general recommendations — it also checked Xbox’s Game Pass library for games I could download right away. When I asked which of its suggested titles were included with my subscription, it flagged Wo Long and Hellblade. That wasn’t enough for me, so I asked for more character-driven action games available on Game Pass.

The follow-up list was even better. Gaming Copilot surfaced strong picks like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Control: Ultimate Edition and Yakuza 0, each paired with quick explanations for why they fit my taste. It also clearly noted Game Pass availability and whether I already owned the game, making the recommendations easy to act on.

Bottom line

I’ve long ignored the Gaming Copilot tab on the mobile Xbox app. But after putting it through its paces and testing it to see if its game recommendations are on point, I think I’ll be paying more attention from this point forward.

In the near future, I’ll be sure to ask it for worthwhile Game Pass picks across the fighting and arcade racing genres. Perhaps I judged you too harshly, Gaming Copilot.

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Elton Jones is a longtime tech writer with a penchant for producing pieces about video games, mobile devices, headsets and now AI. Since 2011, he has applied his knowledge of those topics to compose in-depth articles for the likes of The Christian Post, Complex, TechRadar, Heavy, ONE37pm and more. Alongside his skillset as a writer and editor, Elton has also lent his talents to the world of podcasting and on-camera interviews.

Elton's curiosities take him to every corner of the web to see what's trending and what's soon to be across the ever evolving technology landscape. With a newfound appreciation for all things AI, Elton hopes to make the most complicated subjects in that area easily understandable for the uninformed and those in the know.

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