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15 Best Video Games Most People Never Played

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

Gaming - September 28th 2026, 19:00 GMT+2

15. Star Wars: Battlefront II (2017)

Its launch disaster became more famous than the game itself. The progression system and loot-box controversy swallowed nearly every conversation around *Star Wars Battlefront II*, but DICE spent the following years rebuilding it into a much stronger package. The revamped progression, expanded roster, co-op missions, large-scale battles, and ridiculous audiovisual presentation eventually delivered the Star Wars sandbox fans originally wanted. Plenty of people wrote it off before that version ever existed. | © DICE

14. Titanfall 2 (2016)

Apparently releasing an excellent shooter between *Battlefield 1* and *Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare* was not the world's greatest business strategy. *Titanfall 2* paid for that brutal launch window despite having one of the sharpest FPS campaigns of its generation. Wall-running, Titan combat, constantly changing level gimmicks, and the surprisingly charming partnership between Jack Cooper and BT-7274 keep the campaign moving at a ridiculous pace. Years later, people are still discovering what Respawn quietly pulled off here. | © Respawn Entertainment

13. Psychonauts (2005)

Double Fine took the usual 3D-platformer rulebook, opened someone's skull, and threw the pages inside. Raz's ability to enter other characters' minds means every level can become its own visual joke, psychological problem, or complete fever dream. The platforming occasionally shows its age, but the writing and art direction absolutely do not. *Psychonauts* eventually became a cult classic, yet its reputation today is considerably larger than the audience that actually showed up for it originally. | © Double Fine Productions

Mirrors Edge — 12. Mirror's Edge (2008)

Long before first-person parkour became another box on the open-world checklist, *Mirror's Edge* built an entire identity around movement. Faith races across pristine rooftops, vaults fences, slides beneath obstacles, and follows flashes of red through a city that looks almost aggressively clean. Combat can interrupt that wonderful rhythm, but when everything clicks, simply crossing a building becomes more exciting than most scripted action scenes. Its imitators borrowed pieces of the formula; remarkably few captured the same sensation. | © DICE

11. VVVVVV (2010)

Jumping is overrated. *VVVVVV* replaces it with a single trick—flipping gravity—and then spends several hours demonstrating just how many evil ideas can come from that one mechanic. Terry Cavanagh built a tiny-looking platformer that quickly turns into a precision gauntlet of spikes, disappearing platforms, and rooms seemingly designed by someone with a personal grudge against your keyboard. The minimalist graphics hide an absurd amount of clever design, while the chiptune soundtrack makes failure strangely difficult to resent. | © Terry Cavanagh

10. Wildermyth (2019)

Your heroes in *Wildermyth* begin as ordinary people and usually end up as the sort of legends someone would carve into a tavern wall. Procedural storytelling allows characters to age, fall in love, develop rivalries, transform physically, retire, die, and occasionally return through the Legacy system in later campaigns. The tactical battles are solid, but watching a randomly generated farmer accumulate decades of personal history is the real magic. Losing one can hurt considerably more than the paper-cutout art style prepares you for. | © Worldwalker Games

F I S T Forged In Shadow Torch — 9. F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch (2021)

A grizzled rabbit carrying a mechanical fist the size of a washing machine should probably be a joke character. Instead, Rayton leads one of the slicker Metroidvanias to slip under the radar in recent years. Torch City mixes dieselpunk machinery with anthropomorphic resistance fighters, while the giant fist, drill, and whip give combat far more flexibility than the premise suggests. Exploration stays satisfying, the animation is gorgeous, and yes, punching robots as an angry rabbit remains fun for surprisingly long. | © TiGames

8. As Dusk Falls (2022)

The almost-static illustrated animation of *As Dusk Falls* can look strange for about five minutes. Then somebody makes a terrible decision and suddenly nobody cares. What starts with a robbery gone wrong at an Arizona motel grows into a decades-spanning story about two damaged families, with player choices capable of radically altering who survives and what they become. It also works brilliantly in multiplayer, where friends vote on decisions together and quickly discover how differently everyone handles a hostage situation. | © INTERIOR/NIGHT

Enslaved Odyssey To The West — 7. Enslaved: Odyssey To The West (2010)

Post-apocalyptic games usually love gray rubble; *Enslaved* lets nature reclaim the ruins and paints the end of civilization in green. Loosely inspired by *Journey to the West*, the adventure follows Monkey and Trip through a world still crawling with deadly machines. Their initially forced partnership slowly becomes the reason to keep playing, helped enormously by expressive performances led by Andy Serkis. The combat is fairly straightforward, but the characters, scenery, and melancholy atmosphere give it a personality that survived the hardware generation surprisingly well. | © Ninja Theory

6. Pathologic 2 (2019)

Most games want you to feel powerful. *Pathologic 2* would prefer that you were hungry, exhausted, broke, infected, late for an appointment, and regretting three decisions you made yesterday. Playing as surgeon Artemy Burakh, you have just 12 days to navigate a plague-ravaged town where helping one person can easily mean abandoning another. Its systems are intentionally stressful and sometimes downright cruel, but that discomfort serves the story. Surviving feels less like winning a game than negotiating with one. | © Ice-Pick Lodge

5. The Medium (2021)

Bloober Team built *The Medium* around an unusually literal idea: protagonist Marianne can exist in the real and spirit worlds simultaneously, sometimes splitting the screen between both versions of the same location. The result is more interested in oppressive atmosphere and psychological horror than constant combat. Its abandoned resort becomes increasingly unsettling as both realities begin filling in the same ugly history. Add a spirit world influenced by Zdzisław Beksiński and music involving *Silent Hill* composer Akira Yamaoka, and subtlety was never really on the menu. | © Bloober Team

4. Grim Dawn (2016)

While bigger action RPGs were fighting for the spotlight, *Grim Dawn* quietly became a dangerous answer to the question, “What if I just try one more character build?” Its dual-class system allows enormous flexibility, while the ruined world of Cairn provides enough secrets, factions, loot, and miserable monsters to keep the grind interesting. Crate Entertainment kept expanding and refining it long after release, resulting in the sort of game where checking one new skill combination can mysteriously consume the rest of your evening. | © Crate Entertainment

3. Brutal Orchestra (2021)

Imagine a turn-based roguelike taking a wrong turn through a Hieronymus Bosch painting and deciding it likes the neighborhood. *Brutal Orchestra* takes place in a grotesque version of Purgatory populated by creatures that range from funny to deeply unfortunate to “please remove that from the screen.” Its clever pigment system turns colored resources into the fuel behind abilities, meaning every attack affects what can happen next. Beneath all the body horror sits an unusually smart tactical game that rewards experimentation and embraces being profoundly weird. | © Talia bob Mair & Nicolás Delgado

2. Chrono Ark (2024)

At first glance, *Chrono Ark* risks disappearing into the enormous pile of roguelike deckbuilders already occupying everyone's Steam library. Play it for a while and the differences start piling up. You control a party of investigators whose abilities combine into increasingly elaborate card strategies, turning team composition into something closer to building several decks at once. More importantly, its looping structure feeds into an actual ongoing story rather than existing purely to reset another run. It is complicated, occasionally punishing, and remarkably difficult to put down. | © Al Fine

1. MAG (2010)

A 256-player online shooter running on the PlayStation 3 still sounds like somebody misremembering a press release. *MAG* actually did it. Zipper Interactive organized its enormous battles into squads, platoons, and command structures, giving players specific objectives instead of simply dropping hundreds of people into an expensive gunfight. The tragedy is that *MAG* was entirely dependent on its online servers, which were shut down in 2014. You cannot properly experience it anymore, making one of gaming's strangest multiplayer experiments increasingly difficult to explain to anyone who missed it. | © Zipper Interactive

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Plenty of excellent video games never get the audience they deserve, whether they launch at the wrong time, disappear behind bigger releases, or simply fail to generate enough buzz. Some become cult favorites years later, while others remain buried even among dedicated players. From overlooked RPGs to strange experimental gems, these are 15 great video games most people never played—and a few of them deserved far better.

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Plenty of excellent video games never get the audience they deserve, whether they launch at the wrong time, disappear behind bigger releases, or simply fail to generate enough buzz. Some become cult favorites years later, while others remain buried even among dedicated players. From overlooked RPGs to strange experimental gems, these are 15 great video games most people never played—and a few of them deserved far better.