10. Year Walk Year Walk isn't a horror game. Not really. But it's atmospheric in a way no other iOS game has ever done for me. It's easy to play this game alone and, after a good while, feel like there's someone else there with you, watching what you're doing. There aren't any cheap scares (though there are some scares, so you never quite feel safe), it's all an unsettling blend of emptiness/lo...
During one of our weekly phone conversations this year, upon me mentioning how moving I found Telltale's The Walking Dead, my mother scoffed at me for suggesting that games could have any kind of emotionally engaging narrative. They're just games. My mother has never at all taken well to my hobby, but I like to think that I have enumerated the benefits of the medium, and showed her many example...