
Storyteller
Daniel Benmergui
Storyteller is one of the most genuinely original puzzle games of the decade — a drag-and-drop narrative machine that makes you feel like a mischievou...

Mothmen 1966
LCB Game Studio
A gorgeous, sharply written pulp-horror visual novel that turns 1980s computer graphics into pure atmosphere — brief, occasionally padded, but well wo...

Is This Seat Taken?
Poti Poti Studio
A featherlight logic puzzler that hides a real emotional payload behind its minimalist charm. It's short, it's gentle, and it never once raises its vo...

Kaizen: A Factory Story
Coincidence
Kaizen is a masterclass in optimization puzzle design that will delight the Opus Magnum faithful and quietly humble everyone else. Its 1980s Japan set...

Squirrel with a Gun
Dee Dee Creations LLC
A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

Where Cards Fall
The Game Band
A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

Chess.com
Chess.com
Chess.com is the most complete chess product ever built for a phone — a sprawling, brilliant, occasionally exhausting ecosystem that will make you a b...

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Eidos-Montréal
Eidos-Montréal made a smart, funny, genuinely heartfelt single-player adventure that respects your time and your wallet—then watched it get buried by ...

Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady Studios
Fifteen years on, Rocksteady's open-world Gotham remains the gold standard for what a licensed game can be — a brawler with real teeth, a stealth sand...

Titanfall 2
Respawn Entertainment
Titanfall 2 pairs the most exhilarating movement in the genre with a campaign that outclasses games ten times its budget. It was buried at launch by c...

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Ninja Theory
The most technically staggering game you can run on a PC right now, and one of the most cautiously interactive. Hellblade II is a masterpiece of craft...

A Plague Tale: Requiem
Asobo Studio
Asobo Studio's follow-up to *Innocence* is a gorgeous, gut-punching piece of interactive theater that reaches for greatness and mostly gets there — he...

Broken Age
Double Fine Productions
Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

Herdling
Okomotive
Okomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of *FAR* for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...

Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
Miro Haverinen
*Termina* is one of the most punishing, uncompromising, and genuinely unsettling RPGs ever built in RPG Maker — a masterwork of dread that will either...

Slime Rancher 2
Monomi Park
Monomi Park doubled down on the wobbly, dopamine-drip charm that made the original a cult hit, and Rainbow Island is the most gorgeous playground the ...

Highwater
Demagog Studio
Highwater is a gorgeous, sharp-witted narrative adventure that wears its low-poly heart on its sleeve—but its turn-based combat is a rowboat with one ...

Carto
Sunhead Games
Carto turns cartography into its core verb, and the result is one of the most inventive puzzle ideas in years—wrapped in a cozy, gorgeous package that...

The Gardens Between
The Voxel Agents
A wordless, wistful puzzle-box about the moment two childhood friends realize they're growing apart. It's short, gentle, and gorgeous—and its most rad...

Röki
Polygon Treehouse
Röki is a hand-painted Nordic fairy tale that trades combat for compassion and mostly wins, held back only by pacing that occasionally makes you walk ...