Feature On The Cover!

Our definitive
list of the games
you need to get
in your system
and wiggle your
sticks at ASAP

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W
eve cast our eye into the past and
reveled in nostalgic gems now its
time to look around and enjoy the everyBodys gone to the the JacKBoX Party PacK
present. Its a brilliant time to be a raPture Format PC, PS4, XO, PS3 Pub Jackbox Games Inc
gamer, with so many wonderful Format PS4 Pub Sony Dev Jackbox Games Inc Year 2014
titles on shelves these days that we Dev Chinese Room Year 2015
can practically hear them groaning Charmingly funny writing, ingenious mechanics,
under the weight. Weve gathered our 100 favourites, One of the most perfectly realised places ever and the inspired use of smartphones as controllers
every one of them a modern classic you cant go wrong seen in a game. A beautiful and contemplative make this truly the best, and most accessible,
with. Were not talking the most important or influential yet chilling little slice of English life. party game collection around.
games, or nailing down the objectively best titles this is
purely about which games youll get most fun out of if
you slip them into your machine of choice today. For this
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list, our rigorous and not at all arbitrary criteria is that
each must have been released after December 2010.
Once again, head to p98 if you disagree with our picks!
Zero escaPe: virtues Last
reward
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Format PS Vita, 3DS Pub Rising Star Games

100
Dev Chunsoft Year 2012

Branching storylines make this game of

titanfaLL
PC, XO, 360
Format EA Pub
Life is strange transporting your consciousness through time to Dev Respawn Entertainment Year 2014
Format PC, PS4, XO, PS3, 360 change the future brilliantly replayable.
Pub Square Enix Massive mechs and madcap
Dev DontNod Year 2015
mobility combine to facilitate
This episodic graphic adventure steadily whirlwind multiplayer matchups
accelerates into one of the most emotionally across pleasingly vertical maps.
engrossing stories around.

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the third
Format PC, PS3, 360 invisiBLe inc
Pub THQ Dev Volition Format PS4, PC Pub Klei Entertainment
Year 2011 Dev Klei Entertainment Year 2015

The city sandbox that refuses to take itself Stealth receives a turn-based reinvention in this
seriously, reveling in the simple fun of well, slick cyberpunk roguelike, resulting in the tensest
messing about. Pure, riotous, explosive joy. heists youll ever pull off.

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LittLeBigPLanet 3 drivecLuB dungeon of the endLess
Format PS4, PS3 Pub Sony Format PS4 Pub Sony Format PC, Mobile Pub Amplitude
Dev Sumo Digital Year 2014 Dev Evolution Year 2014 Dev Amplitude Year 2014

A game that hands you the tools to make your Join a crew and burn bike or car rubber over A bizarre but brilliant hybrid of tower defence and
own fun and in the time since release, the spectacular environments. Also: possibly the best roguelike whose tale of survivors on an alien
community has created absolute magic with them. rain in videogames. world serves as a prequel to Endless Legend.

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 The Big 300!

best GAMes TO
play

RIGHT NOW
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KerBaL sPace
Program
grow home
Format PC, PS4 Pub Ubisoft
82
Format PC Pub Squad Dev Ubisoft Reflections Year 2015
Dev Squad Year 2015 suPer mario
3d Land
A compact but innovative and infinitely charming
Fulfil all those astronaut adventure in which you grow and climb a colossal
aspirations in this cheerful but satisfyingly tough plant as endearingly wobbly robot BUD. Format 3DS Pub Nintendo
NASA sim as long as you can figure out how to Dev Nintendo Year 2012
get a ship off-world without it exploding
A fabulously colourful and
creative outing that uses the
89 handhelds 3D functionality to
feZ craft a completely new kind of
Format PC, 360, PS3
Dev Polytron Corporation Mario platformer.
Pub Trapdoor Year 2012

Spin 2D levels in three dimensions to solve puzzles,

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and witness the genius of controversial developer affordaBLe sPace adventures
Phil Fish unfold before you. Remember: when you Format Wii U Pub Knapnok Games
think youve finished, youve only just started Dev Knapnok Games Year 2015

This space-based puzzler displays vital ship

88 functions on the Wii U gamepad, producing superb
co-operative miscommunications.
the stanLey
ParaBLe
Format PC
Pub Galactic Cafe
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Dev Galactic Cafe Year 2013 the eLder scroLLs v: sKyrim mount your friends
Format PC, PS3, 360 Pub Bethesda Format PC, 360 Pub Stegersaurus Software Inc
An interactive meditation on storytelling, Dev Bethesda Year 2011 Dev Stegersaurus Software Inc Year 2013
obedience, and player agency thats a great deal
funnier than that description suggests. The open-world fantasy RPG that lets you off the More than just a wagging member simulator, this
leash on one of gamings largest ever maps and surprise indie hit delivers genuinely intense local
boasts an incredible library of user-made mods. multiplayer competition as you clamber over one
87 another and form a glorious man-mountain.

XenoBLade 83
chronicLes 80
Format 3DS, Wii gone home
Pub Nintendo Format PC, PS4, XO starcraft ii:
Dev Monolith Soft Pub The Fullbright Company Legacy of the void
Year 2011 Dev The Fullbright Company Format PC Pub Blizzard
Year 2013 Dev Blizzard Year 2015
A JRPG of rare invention and imagination, offering
a novel battle system and sweeping vistas in a Fullbrights atmospheric depiction of a deserted The final chapter in a story almost two decades in
sci-fantasy world formed from the bodies of two family home that lets you unravel its affecting the making, and the finest version of Blizzards
endlessly warring gods. mysteries at your own pace. real-time strategy sensation to date.

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