20 Underrated Hidden Gaming Gems Of The Current Generation You Need To Play

10. Dragon Quest Builders

Pegged by many critics as "a Minecraft game for people who hate Minecraft", DQB is a bloody gorgeous little game. For decades now, Akira Toriyama's joyful art style has brought a few hundred worlds to life, and its a loveable ethos that translates to some effortlessly engaging game mechanics.

See, I'm not a Minecraft guy, and DQB intelligently identifies the relative aimlessness that comes with that franchise. Yes, you can build, but why? To what end? Builders sees this gap and fills it with quests, with a story, with characters and fun rewards. You're still free to craft and construct whatever complex creations come to mind, but you've also got villagers to please, enemies to fight, bosses to thwart and specific rooms to build.

If you let Dragon Quest Builders' charms wash over you, it's just plain addictive. The DQ franchise has always been reliable and rammed with loveable characters, and getting to carve your own chunk of it is just sublime.