You play as the nameless hero, navigating the Eastern European-inspired valley of Mordavia.

Fewer still manage to make his job a compelling investigation into the deaths and disappearances of 60 people.

It is not just a 60-person whodunnit, but a howdunnit, wheredunnit, whendunnit, and whydunnit.

Gollum holds a chick in his hands in The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum

But you sort of get what I mean right?

One thing I really love about BOI is its frightening replayability.

Into The Breach

Graham:Into The Breachis perhaps the best turn-based tactics game ever made.

A man holds a torch in a twisty dark cave in Quest For Glory 4.

Controlling small squads of mechs, it’s your job to defend cities from invading aliens.

Doubly so when you consider we also droppedFTL: Faster Than Light.

Subset Games, we have failed you.

Sea men look up on the deck of a ship in Return Of The Obra Dinn

Its also the game that stops you going outside again that summer.

The feeling is pure controlled vertigo.

Or when an Engineer misjudges a platform jump and faceplants the rock below.

Isaac is surrounded by mutant Isaacs in The Binding Of Isaac: Rebirth

And without having the option to down pints at the space-tavern after a mission.

I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on this game, for pete’s sake.

Transistor is a marvel, and as much a joy to play now as it was in 2014.

A row of enemies are lined up in Into The Breach

You play as Jin Sakai, a samurai who must defend his people against the invading Mongol empire.

The combat allows you to perform combos which change depending on your samurai ‘stance’.

It’s so satisfying and gruesome.

Sprinting through vaporwave Heaven in a Neon White screenshot.

How deeply do the dead sleep?

Moments like these are the highlights of Failbetters alt-Victorian space sim, as far as Im concerned.

The lowlights, rather.

Core Spawn Crawlers attack during a Core Stone event in Deep Rock Galactic Season 5.

Your space train trundles over the surface like a pond skater braving a lake of pike.

Its the only space game Ive ever played that triggers my thalassophobia.

In the skies of Albion, time itself is smelted in factories by rapidly ageing labourers.

A red-haired woman wields a big sword in a futuristic battle arena in Transistor

In the Reach, there are nebulous oakwoods and cosmic winds that cause your food supplies to sprout.

The last part is easier in Sunless Skies than in Sunless Sea, but this remains a gruelling experience.

Absolutely worth the trouble though.

A warrior stands in a field overlooking a vista in Ghost Of Tsushima: Director’s Cut.

If you like lush words, weird places and pervasive creepiness, theres no game like Sunless Skies.

Except that one guy, obviously.

However, I will never pass up a good opportunity to shamelessly appeal to the algorithm.

A steam train-like spaceship moves around the gothic horror world of Sunless Skies, which boasts pixel-esque graphics.

So what about you, dear readers?

Which single game are you MOST ANGRY at us for not including?

Say it with your whole chest, and at least one of your lungs.