5) YIIK: A Postmodern RPG (Early 2017)
This is a compact 25-hour turn-based indie RPG set in the late 90s a ’la Saturday Morning RPG. On April 4th 1999, your friend Sammy Pak goes missing. A video of her last known moments surfaces online and you and your buddies watch it together only to see your missing chum Sammy being pulled from an elevator by some strange, otherworldly creature. It sounds like the premise of a really good Twilight Zone episode, right?
With unique combat that blends real-time action-based moves with turn-based combat, six puzzle and trap-filled dungeons, an eclectic soundtrack including works from Toby Fox (Undertale) and Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana), fully voiced dialogue, and epic battles featuring up to eight party members, this may well be the quirkiest, most charming and most surreal RPG experience of the year.