Below
While you may have fooled yourself into thinking this list would be all slick, eighth generation games wrapped in a shiny next-gen veneer, you would be wrong. I truly believe indie games are where the industry is heading.
Below looks insane visually and is reminiscent of old Nintendo and Super Nintendo games, yet with a modern look and style that you just would not have seen back then. The game is actually in open Beta right now, but I don’t fuck with Beta versions of games I truly want to play. As cool as it is to be a part of that process and help work something into art by helping the developers master it, I would rather wait for the perfect end result.
For those who aren’t familiar with the title, Below is an adventure game viewed from a top down perspective most of the time, and the environments will be randomly generated, making sure everyone has a unique experience every time. It is rumored to be quite difficult as well (like great games of yore) and is said to give old-school gamers like myself a real sense of nostalgia, which has me pretty damn intrigued.