15 Best Video Game Levels Of 2016

1. The Escape - INSIDE

*Spoilers for INSIDE's final moments*

A large part of what makes INSIDE so affecting and flawlessly assembled comes from its bleak, Orwellian tone. The dilapidated structures you'll explore, the scrabbling, primal animations of the boy you control - it all builds to a finale where the tables are turned on your oppressors as you're consumed by a powerful amorphous 'blob', breaking free from some sort of public confinery.

You'll hear the shrieks and screams from the Victorian freak show-esque onlookers, all as you struggle to manouvre and control this wretched 'thing' you've unwittingly become. It's a real mix of body horror and vengeance as you do everything from crush various workers in the facility to cornering someone who looks like the boss in their own office - by pushing them through a window and vaporising them on the floor below.

Eventually you'll break out of the facility and end up in the warm glow of a distant sun, ready to reflect back and make meaning out of everything you just experienced.

It's beyond words, but that's entirely the point.

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