Items28The creator’s order
  1. 1Outer Wilds (2019)Outer Wilds (2019) 8.9/10 on IGDBReleased 28 May 2019Its ending is earned with nothing but what you've understood. There are no upgrades, levels or gear: the sun explodes 22 minutes into every loop, you wake by the same campfire, and only knowledge survives, kept in your ship's log. You fly a rickety ship between small handmade planets, reading the…0
  2. 2What Remains of Edith Finch (2017)What Remains of Edith Finch (2017) 8.4/10 on IGDBReleased 24 Apr 2017A family history told through its deaths, and more playful than that sounds. Edith returns to the Finch house, a crooked tower of sealed bedrooms on an island off Washington state, and each room opens one relative's last day as a short playable story with its own style and controls. The standout…0
  3. 3Before Your Eyes (2021)Before Your Eyes (2021) 8.2/10 on IGDBReleased 8 Apr 2021Your own blinks are the controller. A webcam watches your face as a ferryman draws out your life story, and every blink jumps the tale forward, often just as a scene you wanted to linger in gets good. Staying in a moment means fighting your body, and by the last chapters that struggle is the whole…0
  4. 4Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (2013)Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (2013) 8.1/10 on IGDBReleased 7 Aug 2013One gamepad, two brothers: the left stick and trigger move the older boy, the right stick and trigger the younger, and every puzzle on their journey to find a cure for their dying father needs both. For the first half-hour it feels like patting your head and rubbing your stomach; then it becomes…0
  5. 5Soma (2015)Soma (2015) 8.2/10 on IGDBReleased 21 Sept 2015The monsters are the least frightening thing in Soma. Simon Jarrett sits down for a brain scan in Toronto and comes round in PATHOS-II, a half-flooded research station at the bottom of the Atlantic, and Frictional Games, the studio behind Amnesia, uses its dark corridors and hiding to press one…0
  6. 6Life is Strange Remastered (2022)Life is Strange Remastered (2022) 7.5/10 on IGDBReleased 1 Feb 2022Most choice games make you live with a bad call. This one gives Max Caulfield, a photography student back in her Oregon hometown, the power to rewind time, so you redo every awkward conversation until it comes out right, and the final episode asks what that habit is worth. At its centre is her…0
  7. 7The Walking Dead (2012)The Walking Dead (2012) 8.6/10 on IGDBReleased 24 Apr 2012'Clementine will remember that.' The line flashes in the corner after a lie or a kindness, and it turns every conversation into something you're teaching an eight-year-old. Lee Everett is being driven to prison when the dead rise, and soon he has taken in Clementine, whose babysitter has turned.…0
  8. 8NieR: Automata (2017)NieR: Automata (2017) 9.0/10 on IGDBReleased 23 Feb 2017The first time the credits roll, you've seen roughly a third of the story. You play 2B, a combat android sent to win back an Earth overrun by machines for the humans who fled to the Moon, and PlatinumGames supplies fast, flashy action. A second playthrough retells events through another android's…0
  9. 9Undertale (2015)Undertale (2015) 8.6/10 on IGDBReleased 15 Sept 2015Every fight can end without anyone dying, and the game watches how you treat its monsters more closely than any RPG has a right to. A child falls into the Underground, a kingdom of monsters sealed beneath a mountain, and battles are bullet-hell dodging in which mercy, flirting and patience all…0
  10. 10OneShot (2016)OneShot (2016) 8.3/10 on IGDBReleased 8 Dec 2016It greets you by your computer's username, and that's only the first time it reaches outside its own window. Niko, a cat-like child, wakes in a world whose sun has gone out and must carry a glowing lightbulb to the top of a tower, while you play the person watching over them, and Niko knows you're…0