20 Most Addictive Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)

8. Super Meat Boy

Trials definitely carried the torch for trial and error gaming, but Super Meat Boy felt like the Second Coming when it dropped in 2010.

Like some glorious revival of NES and SNES platformers, Team Meat crafted something that was very minimal aesthetically, putting the focus on controlling Meatboy himself, in all his physics and momentum-dependant ways.

It's hard to really convey just how perfect Team Meat got this feeling down - it's like trying to explain why a jump in Super Mario feels more 'right' than say, Rayman. There's just an inherent quality to the level design and obstacle layouts the devs came up with that's infuriating one minute, and euphorically, sky-punchingly fantastic the next.