18 Best Indie Games Of The Decade (So Far)

3. Super Meat Boy

Need a game to separate the men from the boys? Perhaps something to remind that one person who always exclaims that Dark Souls "Isn't hard when you know what you're doing"?

Give them Super Meat Boy - they'll be weeping into their purple cravat (or something equally alternative) in no time, as aside from the first few opening levels that'll ease you in fairly inoffensively, SMB quickly proves itself as one of the most well-designed and downright infuriating platformers out there.

The very embodiment of something that provokes the "But I pressed the button!" reaction, once you're done with the first world of levels, there's a whole other bunch of Dark variants, throwing spikes, buzzsaws and more in the mix if you thought things were going that little bit too easy.

SMB has the record for the rarest completion stat in gaming history according to Raptr.com, with only 0.8% of players actually making it through to the end - and when you consider the levels all finish with a montage of your previous deaths, you can tell Team Meat hoped and planned for such a thing from the very beginning.