PS4: 10 Best Console Exclusives You Need To Play

6. The Witness

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Jonathan Blow

Puzzle titles don't often get the attention that Jonathan Blow's The Witness managed to draw, but that's because the game did something different.

Rather than having the player plow through puzzle after puzzle with no overarching sense of achievement - an effect similar titles often fall prey to - The Witness tied everything together, placing a central mystery at the heart of the experience that each solution would get you one step closer to solving.

As a result, you're compelled to complete each task the game throws at you, and the puzzles don't feel like a slog. The island on which the game takes place is littered with eerily beautiful structures and audio files, lending the experience a philosophical weight and an atmosphere that holds your attention in an almost magical, transfixing manner.

Don't shrug it off as another generic puzzler - this is one you need to see for yourself.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!