11 Severely Underrated Xbox One Games You Must Play

10. Ori & The Blind Forest

Platfomers should hopefully make something of a return with both the Ratchet and Clank movie arriving next year and Rare's kickstarter for Yooka-Laylee getting backed within seconds, proving people are hungry for the genre. For now though, outside the occasionally over-pixellated indie scene, they're few and far between. Enter Ori & the Blind Forest, an impeccably well-designed 2D release that twins an indie design philosophy (it was made by small team Moon Studios in various places around the world) with a gorgeous art design that sits somewhere between Studio Ghibli's characters and Guillermo del Toro's gothic world-building. There's a killer difficulty in there too, predominantly coming from all sorts of levels that require split-second timing, but also in the fact that checkpoints need to be created of your own accord by 'cashing in' energy you'd otherwise use to attack enemies. It establishes a solid sense of risk/reward you're in direct control of, as if it looks like you're on the cusp of a particularly taxing section, simply plonk down a checkpoint and any future deaths will instantly spawn you back to it, Super Meat Boy-style. A slick frame-rate, memorable characters and a sense of progression that'll make you a forest-dominating master by the time it's all over, Ori & the Blind Forest is easily the best platformer in years.