#4 Dark Souls
Dark Souls is a raw game—one of trials, tribulations, and bountiful amounts of brutality. It's an exercise in pain and suffering—but also triumph. Players take on the role of an adventurer, once dead but now alive again, who must rid himself, or herself, of the curse of undeath by journeying into a forsaken land and fulfilling an ancient prophecy.
Better than any other article on the game, Brendan Keogh articulates the beauty of Dark Souls in all its splendor in his fine piece, "A Time to Grind".