Most sci-fi locales in video games are prosaic, but this game's titular spaceport is a truly alien place, and the game is worth buying just to wander its alleys and meet its residents.

Deep Rock Galactic combimes the mining of Minecraft and the co-op horde combat of Left 4 Dead while foreground a sense of worker solidarity and comradery. The least toxic online game in ages.

The walking simulator reimagined as a game of survival and infrastructure building, Death Stranding has a messy narrative but is never short of ambition or symbolic resonance.

TABS is simultaneously a throwback to the software toys of the '90s multimedia era and a brave new take on real-time strategy, with directl control stripped out in favor of sandbox hijinks.

One if the first true detective video games, the forces you to use deductive reasoning and intuition to unravel a complex mystery, rather than just picking dialog options. Makes you feel brilliant.

A work about waiting and longing that couldn't exist in any other medium, The Longing among the most distinctive art and sound design I’ve ever played.

A brilliant combination of, and ode to, classic point-and-click adventures and puzzle platformers; meta-humor is easy to do badly, but Lair of the Clockwork God knocks it out of the park.

An unusually narrative-oriented cooperative adventure, focusing on the play and discovery of childhood, the awesomeness of bikes, and the power of punk. Accessible for all ages and experience levels.

A celebration of banality, Infra focuses on the hidden infrastructure that undergirds modern life, using it as a platform for solid environmental puzzles and a strange sort of beauty.

The rare game that casts you as a scientist, this uses oceanography and biological sciences as the background for a novel, hard SF story. Interface and controls make this distinct from a visual novel.