20 Most Under-Appreciated Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)

13. The Evil Within

There are modern horror games like Outlast and Resident Evil 7, and the over-shoulder bone-chillers of yore like Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space.

In something of a step backwards when it comes to stylisation and control, The Evil Within felt like it was ripped right out of the mid-2000s - in a very good way. Mostly because it was headed up by Shinji Mikami, The Evil Within feels like the followup to Resident Evil 4 we never got, as Capcom took RE in a far more action-oriented direction with 5 and 6.

Playing as a man in danger of being upstaged by his own name, Sebastien Castellanos has access to a crossbow that fires a multitude of different arrows like explosives and fire-imbued - though the real sense of old-school gaming comes from ammo conservation, exploding barrels and exploring one room at a time. There's even a RE4-style chainsaw-wielding, bag-headed miniboss.

Consistently overlooked thanks to being so militantly routed in a bygone era, The Evil Within plays and feels brilliant - you just need to give it a chance.