13 Hugely Under-Rated 2014 Video Games

13. Octodad: Dadliest Catch

Metacritic Score: 69 One of the weirdest games to arrive last year or in fact in any year, Octodad has players controlling (or at least attempting to control) an octopus who is trying to convince everyone around him that he is, in fact, a human. The gameplay revolves around having Octodad perform relatively routine tasks like shopping at the supermarket, but the game's control scheme, in which players must maneuver each limb separately, makes it enormously, hilariously difficult. Though it would be easy to dismiss Octodad as a lazy game with terrible controls (as many critics did), Young Horses, Inc. have taken a potential flaw in their game and totally run away with it. The frustration in how hard it is to move Octodad around is what makes the game so genuinely challenging: complete with a ton of self-aware slapstick humour, the developers turned poor coding into an actual gameplay mechanic, and the results are oddly satisfying. With its agreeable indie game price and short length, there's no reason not to give this barmy caper a go.