20 Underrated Hidden Gaming Gems Of The Current Generation You Need To Play
17. Furi
Think you're 'good at games'? Play Furi. It'll slap the pride right out.
The Game Bakers' timing-intensive indie offering is a great mix of twin-stick arcade shooting one minute, before the camera zooms in your samurai-warrior protagonist and suddenly you're tackling enemies one-on-one, Soul Calibur-style.
Granted the whole thing is based on honing your reflexes to respond to everything from coloured warning flashes to memorising counters you'll need to pull-off in the middle of your opponent's animations, but once you get your roster of abilities down, battles start looking like those punch-flurry scenes from Dragon Ball Z.
Progression-wise, the game is an abstract tale of escape where your character goes up against a series of bosses on their way out of a prison (of sorts). There aren't enemies in between, as this time is more reserved for breathing in Samurai Jack artist Takashi Okazakian's excellent backdrops, combining as a sumptuous synthwave soundtrack thumps and pulsates underneath.
Together it forms a brilliant push and pull of intensity and breathing room - a phenomenal combo that'll separate the dedicated gamers from the rest.