10 Video Games That Ignored The Industry (And Became TIMELESS)

And finally we have Minecraft, which was released in 2011 during the peak of the PS3/360 era, where just about every hit video game adopted the sludgy grey-brown aesthetic of a rusty screw.

Why, then, would this ultra-colourful sandbox game with a blocky, unpolished visual style that has no real story nor any proper gameplay goals be anything more than a fleeting distraction solely "for kids"?

But Minecraft was one of the first video games to benefit majorly from streamer culture, with Let's Plays from prominent YouTubers allowing it to progressively become a word-of-mouth hit.

The game's hands-off approach to encouraging creativity evidently struck a chord with players of all ages, and 14 years later, Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time by a colossal margin, while its recent movie adaptation is closing in on $1 billion at the global box office.

For a game that could've so easily been a passing flavour of the month, initially created by a solo developer no less, its enduring pop-culture dominance is something nobody could've seen coming.