

A purely-FMV murder-mystery game starring a single live actor in 2015? Surely that would both suck, and fail commercially! But luckily for us it achieved the polar opposite of our piddly expectations. On paper, this game should never have been made. If you’re not playing Rocket League, you missed one of the most fun things in video games. How the seemingly limited tools Psionix gives players actually have 10 layers of usefulness depending on the situation. It is also immediately fun: You are driving cars into balls to score goals! What we don’t immediately grasp is just how deep the game goes. Picking up the game, it’s immediately understandable: You drive a car into the ball to score goals. It’s a phenomenon because it does “simple but deep” better than almost any game in the history of ever. Rocket League is a phenomenon, and I don’t say this just because of its runaway hit status. I also play a lot of iOS games, so I made sure to include a couple of those too! From competitive to cooperative, most of my favorites brought something awesome to the table on the multiplayer front. 2015, for me, tended to be about games I played with other people. For the most part, I tend to dive into shorter games – I find they fit both my schedule and my tastes a little better. So before you say ‘WTF NO FALLOUT 4?!?!,’ please enjoy my list for what it is: my 10 favorite games I played while briefly not making our own. Here's Vella with his picks for the year in no particular order:Įnd of year lists are always odd for me to write, since, as a ritual, I do most of my ‘retail' gaming in marathon sessions over the holidays when i finally get a chance to relax a bit. Capybara's next game is Below, slated to release in 2016 for Xbox One and PC. Nathan Vella is the co-founder and president of Capybara Games, the indie house behind Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery, Super Time Force, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, and Critter Crunch. To share their favorite games of the year. We've invited a number of the video game industry's influential figures

On the lead up to Game Informer's Game of the Year awards of 2015,
