Stunt tracks in an editor, restarted a thousand times to shave a hundredth; Nadeo's speedrun racer.
Wobbly men solve physics puzzles badly; No Brakes Games.
A goat, ragdoll physics and a city; the joke that sold millions.
Be a horrible goose in an English village; House House's to-do list of mischief.
Jelly men wrestle each other off buildings; the physics party game.
Fencing tug-of-war in pixels; one hit, one death, run for the worm.
Four archers, one arrow each; the best local multiplayer game of its decade.
One player sees the bomb, the others read the manual; talk fast.
Quiplash and Fibbage with phones as controllers; the party game of every gathering.
Four cooks, ingredients thrown across the gaps, and online play added for the 2018 sequel.
Honey I Shrunk the Kids as a survival game in a backyard; Obsidian.
A corporate explorer on a sarcastic alien world; Typhoon's comedy Metroid.
Raz inside more heads; Double Fine's sequel sixteen years later, and better.
Toys for Bob's sequel with masks that flip gravity; harder than the originals.
The Genesis Sonic made by fans, officially; the best Sonic since 1994.
Wario Land at 200 miles an hour, drawn like a 1990s cartoon; the 2023 indie.
Retro Studios' hardest and best banana platformer.
A luchador Metroidvania in a Day of the Dead Mexico; DrinkBox.
A scientist wakes on an alien world; one man's Metroid.
Dark Souls in 2D on an island; Ska Studios.
A Metroidvania of Andalusian Catholic horror; the Penitent One.
One-hit kills, slow motion and a samurai on drugs; Askiisoft's neon.
A drifter with a sword and a cough in a pixel world; Heart Machine's wordless action.
A blob in a labyrinth of secrets within secrets; the 2024 Metroidvania of hidden layers.
Unpack boxes across eight moves and learn a life from what goes where.
A bird climbs a mountain to get phone signal; ninety minutes of kindness.
April Ryan between Stark and Arcadia; Funcom's 1999 epic adventure.
A lawyer follows a clockwork trail to a lost island of mammoths; Benoit Sokal's art.
An American in Paris and a bombed cafe; Revolution's 1996 adventure and the goat puzzle.
Guybrush finally finds the secret; Gilbert's 2022 sequel.
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