The main issue with this site is that it only lets you list five favourite games, and that's not enough. TUNIC is an absolute gem, and you owe it to yourself to give it a try.

There are so many things i love about it. Its art style is delightful. The fact that most secrets, including core gameplay mechanics, are hidden in plain sight, waiting for you to discover them and be suddenly gobsmacked by the sudden realisation that it was there all along, over and over again. I love its somehow diegetic booklet, an homage to old NES era instruction booklets in general, and Zelda's in particular. I love its attention to details, its conlang that i never translated but that i know was used to make sound effects musically spell a description of their purpose. I loved the reveal of the central page and the implications thereof, which genuinely caught me by surprise. I loved the challenging (but almost entirely solvable without a guide) extra challenge of finding the true ending.

It is worth noting that there's one aspect in which it almost falls short, however: the difficulty is inconsistent, and has some sudden spikes here and there that remind you why it is compared to a Souls game almost as often as it is compared to a Zelda game. Most difficult fights have cheese strats, there are secret items you can find that help, but if you want to experience this game without it being a gauntlet, there are accessibility options.

Oh and you play a cute fox.