20 Best Indie Games Of The Decade

20. Fez

Phil Fish's one and only game, Fez was a major runaway success back in 2012.

Whilst I'll stay away from the fact Fish had some beef with game fans and certain press outlets (leading to him quitting the industry altogether), Fez remains an incredibly innovative platformer with a killer hook: Rendering 2D landscapes in 3D.

Besides weighty movement and a general sense of momentum that means exploring the luscious environments is a blast, at any time you can rotate the entire world on a central axis, opening up scores of possibilities in terms of how to progress.

Mantling around "corners", unearthing secrets formerly stuck on "walls" - Fez fundamentally demands you think about game spaces differently, and uses this to pivot into a whole other mind-breaking twist involving various glyphs you've could've totally missed.

From top to bottom, Fez is one hell of a package.