
The Wolf Among Us
Telltale
Telltale's neo-noir fairy-tale detective story is one of the most atmospheric, best-written adventure games ever made—right up until you realize your ...

Super Mario Odyssey
Nintendo
Nintendo took the 3D platformer, a genre it invented, and detonated it. *Super Mario Odyssey* is the rare sequel that makes everything before it feel ...

Sanitarium
Dotemu
A 1998 psychological horror classic reborn on touchscreens with just enough polish to matter — Sanitarium remains one of the most disturbing, intellig...

Neo Cab
Chance Agency
A sharp, empathetic narrative adventure that turns the emotional labor of gig work into its core mechanic. The mystery underwhelms and the ride ends t...

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Unknown
A landmark of narrative ambition wrapped around a traversal system that actively fights you — the writing and voice work are among the best the medium...

Miasmata
IonFx
A hauntingly original survival game built around a cartography system so demanding and so satisfying that it retroactively exposes the crutches every ...

Vangers
K-D Lab
A 1998 voxel fever-dream that treats player comprehension as optional and rewards obsession like nothing before or since. Brutally opaque, mechanicall...

BOKURA
Outlaw Game design, James Scott
BOKURA weaponizes miscommunication into a puzzle mechanic, delivering one of the most genuinely cooperative games ever made—provided you have a patien...

Gemini Rue
Joshua Nuernberger
A meticulously crafted sci-fi noir that proves great writing and mood beat a triple-A budget every time. The clunky gunfights are the only thing keepi...

Stories Untold
No Code
A masterclass in dread that turns dead technology into a haunted house, **Stories Untold** is one of the most inventive horror games of the last decad...

CATO: Buttered Cat
Malastin
A daft internet meme becomes one of the smartest cooperative puzzle-platformers in years. Malastin builds an entire mechanical language around a dumb ...

Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
LEONIVEYGAMES LTD
Pocket Trap took a childhood toy, bolted it to a Zelda skeleton, and somehow invented a subgenre worth naming. "Yoyovania" isn't a marketing gimmick —...

Until Then
Polychroma Games
Polychroma Games has built one of the most emotionally precise narrative adventures of the decade—a game that disguises a devastating meditation on gr...

Coromon
TRAGsoft
Coromon isn't content to cosplay as a Game Boy Advance-era Pokémon clone—it interrogates the genre's oldest habits and fixes most of them. A stamina-d...

Rune Factory 4 Special
Marvelous Inc.
A remaster that wears its 3DS origins on its sleeve, but underneath the dated polygons sits one of the most generously packed action-RPG-slash-life-si...

Sally Face
Portable Moose
Portable Moose's five-episode occult mystery is one of indie horror's most emotionally punishing achievements—a game that weaponizes its clunky puzzle...

Unavowed
Wadjet Eye Games
Wadjet Eye Games has crafted the smartest point-and-click adventure in a decade—a party-based, choice-driven urban fantasy that treats you like an adu...

Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Ubisoft Montpellier
A gorgeous, gut-wrenching illustrated elegy for the men and women ground up by World War I. The puzzles are featherweight, but the storytelling hits l...

Lucifer Within Us
Kitfox Games
Kitfox Games built one of the smartest deduction systems the genre has seen in years—then handed you only three murders to use it on. What's here is s...

Silt
Spiral Circus Games
Silt is a gorgeous nightmare — a monochrome plunge into the deep that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its genre, but stumble...