Kentucky Route Zero started releasing in 2013. Thrilled we're finally about to get the last chapter in 2020.
There was some other serious quality. Super Hexagon was a phenomenon, fuckin' Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Shadowrun Returns, Steamworld Dig, Papers Please, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Rayman Legends, Puppeteer, Monaco, XCom: Enemy Within, Resogun, Tearaway, and (of course) The Last of Us.
I guess if I was gonna re-do a top ten out of those it might look like:
- XCom: Enemy Within
- Super Hexagon
- Papers Please
- The Last of Us
- Rayman Legends
- Monaco
- Shadowrun Returns
- Kentucky Route Zero: Acts One and Two
- Far Cry: Blood Dragon
- Tearaway
Honorable mentions: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Puppeteer, Resogun, Steamworld Dig, Rayman Jungle Run and Fiesta
Not exactly the order that I'd play through them again, but I want to honor just how much fun I had with Super Hex and how much time I put into it. I'm also not exactly itching for another playthrough of Rayman Legends (I think Origins was tighter), Blood Dragon, or Tearaway. The Last of Us was a very solid game, but I'm gonna sleep on the sequel until the next gen is out for a while. With the exception of some decent multiplayer, I don't think it had much staying power. As for XCom: EW, it's been superseded by its excellent sequel.
But Shadowrun Returns kicked off an improbable return to a franchise, Monaco would still be fun if someone wanted to do co-op, and Papers Please feels like re-reading a decent short story. All games I'd still fire up if I was in the right mood.
Finally, KRZ is KRZ and I will keep replaying it, but I can't put Acts 1 and 2 too much higher on the list by themselves. I just played through it again in anticipation of Act V. The 28th can't arrive soon enough.
Edit: Oh shit, Gone Home released in 2013? Put that after KRZ and bump Tearaway down in to honorable mention territory. Maybe I would have WiiU and 3DS games on the list, too, but I didn't have those systems and without a re-release probably won't catch up to 3d World, A Link Between Worlds, or Pikmin. If I had the opportunity to play them now, tho, I would.