20 Best Video Games Of The Generation (So Far)

19. Pokémon GO

Niantic's out-of-nowhere phenom genuinely took over the Summer of 2016 - and not in the way a new game does. More like the sort of reception Jesus himself would wish he'd get.

It was literally everywhere, and although gameplay boiled down to swiping Pokéballs and hoping for the best, Niantic's fancy geo-mapping technology made the real world feel like it was filled with all sorts of actual Pokémon. Rivers housed Magikarps and Gyarados, fields were teeming with Caterpies - the second you caught a Charmander in your living room, that became a memory for life.

Sadly, in one of the most cack-handed moves in entertainment history, the developers completely removed the tracking feature necessary to play, citing third-party websites who pinpointed precisely where the Pokémon were, as 'spoiling the fun'. By the time they implemented a suitable replacement (which took months) the entire fanbase had dwindled, but as a point in time, as a game of a generation in every respect, Pokémon GO is way up there.