20. Grow Home
In a gaming landscape comprising high-octane explosions, mechanics designed to placate your ego through overblown set-pieces and the general notion being to slaughter everything in your way - its such a refreshing sight to play something so unapologetically joyous as Grow Home. Playing as the Botanical Utility Droid (BUD), its a third-person platformer with a killer physics-based edge, seeing you literally just having to do as the title implies by climbing your way to freedom on a giant plant, occasionally piloting a set of arching vines across the landscape to extend its reach. The best bit is the overwhelmingly tranquil feel of it all. Leaping deftly off the edge of a stalk and deploying a flower to glide across the skyline, before skydiving down and grabbing the next thread, it all factors into expanding the central plant one stem at a time. You do get access to an expanding set of moves to get you to the top, but the look of it all, the sheer scope seen in any screenshot and the overwhelmingly perilous scope of forever going higher and higher combine to create one hell of a rush regardless of whether youre teetering on the edge of a surface, or flinging yourself off in the hopes of catching the next.