5. Inside

Inside is the latest game by Playdead, the indie game studio behind the superb Limbo video game which came out in 2012. And although that game wasn’t particularly long or offered much replay value, it still was one of the year’s gaming highlights, with its great atmosphere, art style and puzzle-based gameplay.

And Playdead newest game Inside is that game’s spiritual successor, with a similar dark and atmospheric visual style, and gameplay focused on environmental puzzles like its predecessor. Like in Limbo, players control a young boy who must deal with all manner of threats in the game’s hostile world, while being hunted by the sinister forces behind a dark project he finds himself becoming part of… And Inside not only looks beautiful but is also superb fun to play, and haunting like few games manage to be, making it one of the top games to have come out in 2016 so far.