10 Underrated Recent Video Games That Deserve A Second Chance

3. The Witness

From tactile on-the-fly decision making, to cerebral, take-as-long-as-you-need puzzling. The Witness is the long-awaited followup to Jonathan Blow's Braid; another complete mindf*ck of a game that only a handful of those with the appropriate IQ could get through.

Overall, The Witness is a thoroughly enjoyable affair, one who's every puzzle is based on the idea of getting a dot from one side of a grid to another, whilst accounting for modifiers along the way. You're tasked with figuring what these modifier symbols mean through experimentation and trial and error, and it's this idea of learning without words or tutorials that frames the game's entire intention.

Blow wants you to question the very notion of knowledge, of learning, of our place in the cosmos and of wider thinking overall. It's heavy, pretentious stuff, but if you subscribe to any of the messages he and his team are putting across, The Witness is as fun to unravel as it is to get lost in.