16 Essential Video Games Worth Buying An Xbox One For

2. Ori & The Blind Forest

Ori's incredible presentation and overall feel makes it one of the best platformers in decades. Just putting that out there as a blanket statement, because it released and was suitably buried in 2015 - otherwise known as, The Year Microsoft Hit The Reset Button.

As such, it was far too easy to simply slip under our collective radars, and that's a damn shame, because Ori's Studio Ghibli-meets-Guillermo del Toro presentation is just gorgeous. Gameplay-wise, platforming is tight and acrobatic, a Metroidvania progression governing your path through the world as you unlock a ton of new abilities and attacks to defeat foes and explore even further.

The best part comes with the tying of your energy allowance to a checkpoint system, meaning you can 'cash in' a full bar to create a custom checkpoint, dictating which chunks of the environment may need a spate of trial and error to get through. Think of it as a custom difficulty spike; one you can smooth over as and when you like.

Assembled by MOON Studios, a team of developers split across the world, Ori & the Blind Forest is the total embodiment of a hidden gem.