10 Video Games That Make You Rethink Time And Space

4. Ilomilo

Portal game
Xbox Game Studios

On the surface, Ilomilo is a pleasant little game about two friends, Ilo and Milo, who are separated at the start of every level. You're tasked with reuniting them.

Which is fine... until you realise that the laws of space and gravity are fiddled around with, resulting in some head scratching 3D puzzles.

You wouldn't think it by looking at that picture above, but Ilomilo will have you frowning at it not long after you start. For one, you don't stay on one plane and two, you flip between the friends to press switches for the other to progress.

Sounds simple enough, surely? Seriously, don't let the cuteness fool you.

There's no violence in here, but there are some adorable little adversaries that will block your path, making you backtrack up, down and all around to get past them.

Whilst you can't get mad at a game like this, you can get wound up by how devilish some of these puzzles get by the later stages.

If that fails, you can always go back to the menu and play the instruments there to calm down.

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