
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...

Haste: Broken Worlds
Landfall
Landfall has built the best pure-movement game since *Neon White* — a downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's...

Varney Lake
LCB Game Studio
Varney Lake is a lean, beautifully composed slice of vampire pulp that proves interactive fiction can still feel cinematic. It's short, it's more nove...

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...

Monster Train 2
Shiny Shoe
Shiny Shoe took a near-perfect roguelike deckbuilder and made it deeper, denser, and more demanding without breaking what worked. **Monster Train 2** ...

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...

Mixtape
Beethoven and Dinosaur
Beethoven & Dinosaur's follow-up to *The Artful Escape* is a gorgeous, needle-drop-driven ode to the end of adolescence—but it asks you to feel more t...

Absolum
Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks
Absolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of *Streets of Rage 4* and welds it to *Dead Cells*-style roguelite structure — the result is the most mechan...

Mr. Sun's Hatbox
Kenny Sun
A roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, *Mr. Sun's Hatbox* is one of the most inventive physics sandboxes on Steam and Switc...

Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Lizardry
A quietly radical little RPG that reads your character by watching what you *do*, not what you *say*—and the results land closer to home than any Buzz...

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...

Freedom Planet 2
GalaxyTrail
GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the finest momentum-platformers in a decade — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally overlong love let...

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 ...

Grimvalor
Direlight Oy
Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

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 ...

Overcooked! 2
Ghost Town Games Ltd., Team17
A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's the highest praise I can give it. Overcooked! 2 f...

Persona 4 Golden
ATLUS
A decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden remains the gold standard for how to make 80 hours feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG wh...

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...

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...

Death Road to Canada
Rocketcat Games, Madgarden
A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...