10 New Video Games You NEED To Be Playing (But Aren't)

10. Bionic Bay

Let's kick this list off with the game probably most desperately in need of your eyeballs - the magnificent physics-based platformer Bionic Bay.

Players take control of an unnamed scientist as he fights to escape an ancient biomechanic world packed to the gills with traps, and while comparisons to iconic indie platformer Limbo are inevitable, Bionic Bay has some very distinct tricks up its sleeve.

Throughout the game the player will be able to manifest a number of abilities, such as slowing down time, hurling objects, flipping gravity, and most compellingly swapping places with an object in the environment.

Bionic Bay isn't hugely punishing as these sorts of platformers go - aided by a brilliant checkpoint system - but it's just-tricky-enough, while immersing players in an eye-wateringly beautiful pixel art world.

Oh, it's got hilariously wild ragdoll physics every time you die (which you will, a lot).

Yet despite receiving strong reviews, Bionic Bay peaked at a depressing 189 concurrent players on Steam and basically evaporated into the cultural void within days of its release, when it should really be part of the Game of the Year conversation.