9. Bastion
There's nothing inherently wrong with the videogame industry's franchise obsession. Plenty of the best games in history — and quite a few on this list — are sequels. But for anyone who's grown weary of space marines and Mario[insert sport] and octoquel/sub-threequels with colons and numbers in the title, the growth of the independent-videogame market is a happy development indeed. This year's indie-game standout, Bastion is a retro-delight, feeling at times like an RPG from the SNES era. Like Limbo and Braid before it, the game suggests a peculiarly modern creeping sadness. Unlike those games, Bastion is playful and funky. [Full Disclosure: I went to high school with the guy who wrote the Bastion soundtrack. No bias, I swear: He just won two Videogame Awards.] —Darren Franich
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