10 Subtly Brilliant Video Games You Wrongly Overlooked

4. Dying Light

ANOTHER zombie game? Seriously? It may sound like a cliché, but I swear that this one is different from the others. In Dying Light, players have some of the best manoeuvrability I've seen in any first-person game (on-par with Mirrors Edge), as well as brutal and detailed combat that gives players a great sense of satisfaction with perfectly timed hits to the head and plenty of opportunities to kick zombies off of cliffs.

Why it was overlooked: Dying Light seemed to be overlooked because many gamers had the same perspective as the first sentence of the previous paragraph. They felt that the zombie genre was already over-saturated, so Dying Light would prove to just be another game to ignore as it seemed to have few new concepts to offer.

The game also came from Dead Island developer Techland, so genre fans and gamers overall may have been concerned that the dev made another disappointingly-average game.

Why you need to check it out: The mix of parkour and combat is honestly superb and the combat is far smoother than Techland's previous efforts with Dead Island. There is still some repetition, but the amount of ways players are able to improvise and try new tactics is refreshing and allows for plenty of inventive ways to take down any zombie horde.

The nighttime gameplay maintains a massive amount of intensity regardless of what level you are and the progression system is based on what you do in combat and around the map, making it feel natural and well-designed. You may have played zombie games before, but you haven't lived until you dropkick a zombie off a mountain.