10 Amazing Video Games You Should Only Play Once
1. To The Moon
If you haven't played To the Moon yet, go do that now. Also, where have you been the last 10 years?
This adventure game's familiar retro aesthetic belies the fact that it's one of the most emotionally intelligent and heartbreaking video games of all time.
It's absolutely game a best played without much prior knowledge of its plot - which centers around themes of memory and mortality - and its narrative is so tremendously affecting as to become an emotional scab that players likely won't wish to pick at with a second playthrough.
More to the point, the writing is strong enough to compensate for the game's admittedly ropey gameplay - To the Moon was created by an incredibly small team using the RPG Maker XP engine, and to that end its central mechanics are both incredibly basic and bug-riddled.
Here the gameplay is a means to an end - a necessity to experience the story but not something you'll likely wish to do again.
And given that To the Moon's emotionally shattering story will sear itself in your memories forever more, there's really little to be gained from revisiting it.