A swing and a home run for narrative gaming, and the creation of a very divisive title in Gone Home from The Fullbright Company's item-discovering horror-tinged explore-a-thon last year. A masterpiece in storytelling, and one that makes this list due to the simple fact that you'll get exponentially more out of it the more you've played games beforehand. Home does a brilliant thing of playing with your expectations and compounding them into affecting moments of extreme subtlety and unabashed jump-scare goodness - the end result of which when everything's said and done will stay with you forever. If that all sounds a bit vague, it's intentional, as the story within Gone Home is not a particularly long one, and plonks you in the shoes of returning gap-year student Kaitlin Greenbriar - only to approach her newly-moved family's abode and read a note from her sister saying she's left the premises. There's no inner-monologue from Kaitlin and it's up to you to explore the house in front of you, piecing together exactly what's happened to your family from the remnants of their move, whilst also exploring the place for yourself. Like an indie flick making it into the big leagues, Gone Home contends with everything else going purely on its depiction of isolation and that sense of curiosity we all have to explore what goes bump in the night - it's a phenomenal little title that every gamer worth their salt should indulge in.
