18 Best Indie Games Of The Decade (So Far)

12. Fez

For some, alongside one other meat-based chap, this is the indie game.

Designed and coded almost entirely by the divisive Phil Fish, Fez is a labour of love to the platformers of old, with a damn-near perfect sensation of weight and movement to everything you do, alongside a world itself that tops off a killer premise with some of the most intricately designed structures in all of gaming.

Playing as one tiny creature Gomez who's seemingly forever been bound to living in a 2D plane (along with enduring some delightful jokes, "You're looking nice and flat today!"), he suddenly discovers a literal fez hat, which transports him and you into the 3D plane - albeit in game-terms that being a world rendered in 3D, seen from various angles in 2D.

Just this cool little concept makes you analyse any given world in an entirely new way, and suddenly you're leaping off towards unobtainable platforms only to swing the entire world around and land on where that item would be, had it been viewable from another angle.

Sound like a head-trip? It is for a short while, but in perfecting this simple skill the whole thing becomes the most delightful of brain-twizzlers, challenging you to collect various glowing cubes to progress as the world around you is literally always changing.