Xbox Game Pass: 10 Must-Plays You Should Try

10. The Talos Principle

The Talos Principle was universally lauded by both reviewers and the public. A narrative-driven puzzler, it's an eccentric fusion of the ancient and the futuristic, as if the set designers for The Crystal Maze got confused and amalgamated two of the zones.

You control an android awoken in a world void of humanity; the story toys with philosophical issues such as AI self-consciousness, several years before Detroit: Become Human would tread similar waters.

Whilst the puzzles are at the core of the gameplay, you have the power to make choices and influence the storyline in ways which other titles don't; at no point in Portal could you decide that all GLaDOS needed was a bit of WD-40 and intensive robot therapy, instead of blowing her up.

The ability to influence the outcomes makes The Talos Principle far more involving than your average puzzler, and may even prompt players to turn into makeshift philosophers as they consider the ethics behind the story.

It might share similar geometric puzzle pieces, but it's a far cry from the comparatively superficial addictiveness of Tetris. The music is far less of an earworm, too.