15 most underrated games in 2021

While Dodgeball Academy is not as tight a sports RPG experience as Golf history, there is an undeniable charm to this game that makes it easy to overlook its harsh gameplay edges. Anyone who is vaguely interested in the sports RPG genre will almost certainly fall in love with this game.

5. The artful escape

The artful escape deserves more love than it has gotten so far based on its cast alone (where else can you find Lena Headey, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Strong and Carl Weather’s work together?), this could really be the best platformer adventure game this year.

While The artful escape‘s apparent disinterest in its own gameplay will almost certainly alienate many potential fans, the quality of this title’s images, story, music and characters is impossible to deny. It’s just a beautiful all-round game that you have to experience for yourself.

4. Overboard

Overboard throws you like a young woman who just killed her husband aboard a luxury ship from the 1930s and now has to find a way to cover her tracks long enough to reach New York City. It’s basically a “Whodunnit?” conversely, and it is completely as ingenious as that description makes it sound.

Overboard‘s visual, novel-like gameplay will certainly not be for everyone, but this game’s clever premise and the ways in which its various twists and turns give you a surprising amount of freedom in such a seemingly “small” game, deserve to be celebrated.

3. Bonfire Peaks

While I tend to love puzzle-based adventure games that turn entire worlds into complicated brain teasers, I will admit that there are times when even some of the best games in that genre tend to be a bit too clever to their own best. It’s hard to get into a game when you have no idea what to do the moment you start it.