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Gone Home (2013)

£38.90

You arrive at your family’s new house following a trip overseas. No one is home. A note from your little sister on the door begs you not to look for her. Where is everyone? What happened here? That’s the premise of Gone Home, the spectacular debut game from the Fullbright Company. No guns or swords, no puzzles or quests, no henchmen or monsters—just you and a house and the story told by what you find inside.

Shenmue II (2001)

£36.90

The Shenmue series transformed adventure games into an open-world 3D experience with a cinematic, story-driven game. Shenmue II picks up after the events of the first game, as Ryo Hazuki continues the search for his father’s murderer. Gameplay involves a combination of city-exploration, detective-style investigation, interrogation, and combat—a mixture of real-time action and quick-time-events.

Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012)

£32.90

The factor that set Fire Emblem: Awakening apart from its predecessors is the inclusion of a robust relationship system. The more your characters fight alongside each other in battle, the closer they become. If they spend enough time together, some will even get married and have kids, passing along stat bonuses and movesets.

The super-charging of your troops with an army of beefed-up youngsters is nice, but the real show-stealer is the extensive dialog interactions that come from your characters’ burgeoning relationships. It’s all the charm of a dating sim, but less “buying flowers and trips to the mall,” and more “the family that slays together, stays together.”

Oh, and the game is also an entertaining turn-based tactical RPG.

Silent Hill 2 (2001)

£35.10

Silent Hill 2 succeeds in creating an atmosphere of pure terror by focusing more on the psychological and thematic elements of horror rather than simply battling against big scary monsters.

You play as James Sutherland, a man searching for his deceased wife in the fog- and monster-riddled town of Silent Hill. His quest is a journey through both the town and his own psyche, where he faces taboo topics such as domestic abuse, rape, and incest.

Day of the Tentacle (1993)

£35.10

Games like this just don’t come around very often anymore. Back in the CD-ROM days when LucasArts ruled, DOTT was the time-traveling puzzle game that far surpassed its predecessor Maniac Mansion.

Guide Hoagie, Laverne, and Bernard on their journey to stop the purple tentacle from taking over the world. The puzzles range from getting Betsy Ross to design a new flag to dressing up a mummy to win a beauty contest. It’s still just as fun to play more than 25 years later.

Zork (1980)

£31.20

In the late ’70s and early ’80s, while the golden age of arcades made its way into shopping malls and bowling alleys, a different kind of game began to thrive at home. Text adventures offered worlds of imaginative depth, whether through an interactive fantasy novel or an electronic game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Zork was one of the first of these games, but it differentiated itself by its depth of both story and design. The game’s text parser was more sophisticated than its predecessors, able to understand short but more complex strings of commands as opposed to basic noun-verb statements. This made the game more engaging from both a narrative and gameplay perspective, giving us the first glimpse at what would be possible in the fantasy RPGs of the future.

Star Fox 64 (1997)

£34.30

There’s a moment in the first level of Star Fox 64 where, if you fly through a series of seemingly innocuous arches, your wingman Falco tells you to follow him. He leads you through a waterfall and into an alternate end of the level, unlocking a whole new path of locations to visit. You could have beaten the game via the basic path countless times without ever knowing these places existed.

Mega Man 2 (1988)

£33.30

Critics loved the original Mega Man, but nobody bought it. Lucky for us, Capcom decided to move forward with a sequel, and Mega Man 2 was a smash. The game sold more than 1.5 million copies and launched the franchise into the gaming stratosphere. The second game is played like the first, as you control the eponymous Blue Bomber through a series of robot-ridden levels, defeating them to earn their abilities. But Mega Man 2 brought a series of upgrades, not the least of which was making the game less crushingly difficult.

Dungeon Master (1987)

£32.90

Dungeon Master pioneered and popularized many elements that would become staples of the role-playing game genre. Those include real-time gameplay, an immersive 3D world, character inventory, skills that improved through use rather than by spending skill points, and more. Individually, these features had appeared in earlier games. But Dungeon Master’s packing of them into a cohesive, enjoyable package in the model that games since then have emulated.

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