10 Video Games That Don’t Deserve Their Masterpiece Status

7. The Witness

Earlier this year people started going crazy over Jonathan Blow's open-world puzzler The Witness. Gamers revelled at getting themselves stuck into the often painfully difficult challenges, with reviewers and critics everywhere waxing lyrical about how it's changed the way they see modern games.

And when you get into it, The Witness does what it sets out to very well. The puzzles are devilish at times, and the freedom with which it lets you approach them and explore the island is refreshing for a while. That being said; it's not without its flaws.

Like a parent trying to reason with an unruly child, I find myself preaching about the benefits of guidance. The Witness is great if you have the patience of a saint, but such an approach that appeals to some will ultimately alienate many others: it's often too pretentious for its own good.

Rather like a multi-faceted book that reveals the only story it was telling was actually about you leafing the pages in the first place, The Witness is more cult-classic than worldwide phenomenon.