9 Awesome Video Games That Got ZERO Marketing

2. The Last Campfire

Say you're Hello Games. Choosing how to even approach the idea of "Trust us again, we've got more games to sell" is a Herculean effort.

Coming off No Man's Sky and all the messy-as-hell lies, broken promises and lacklustre launch day versions that made up its reception for over a year, Hello Games quietly dropped a trailer for Last Campfire at The Game Awards 2018, and that was about it.

Crafted by three members of the team with another composing a serene, guitar-backed score, The Last Campfire would have to stand on its own two feet, a loveable game with an audience who'd have to choose to care again.

Thankfully, the final product is a moreish blend of old-school Zelda dungeon puzzles, sprinkled with just enough narrative pull to see you through. Playing as Ember you set about helping another lost soul find peace after being left behind, but the majority of the time you're slotting items into housing, rotating parts of the environment or returning items to NPCs.

It sounds so simple; so played out and so "done", but a return to this uber-satisfying, gameplay-first design is the perfect short palette cleanser between anything else.