Unguessed
New on the list this year is 'RiMe'. I played it a couple of years ago, but this year I'm in the mood to mention other games, and this one made an impact on me. It is a light puzzle-exploration game that follows a boy that's stranded on a mysterious island. It seems uninhabited, aside from a large bird and mysterious dark entities. At the centre of the island there's a very tall tower to which you get directed to by a mysterious fox and a man in a red cape. During the story, you find out more and more of what happened that led to you being on the island through flashback cutscenes. At the top of the tower though, the story comes to a big twist at the end. It seems that it actually all played in the mind of a grieving father, that lost his son at sea, and he tries to envision his son coming back to him.
I got the game when I got the Switch. I bought, if I remember correctly, three games with it. Something safe, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and something I wouldn't normally get when a system matures because by then there's more games to play. The box of 'RiMe' caught my eye, and it wasn't expensive. The game itself is as beautiful as the artwork, and the story is conveyed in a nice and subtle way, purely visually without any dialogue. It's short, but I was genuinely surprised by the end, and these kind of surprises are the most memorable ones.
