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A superb premise and even better execution, 99 Levels To Hell is fresh, challenging, and fun.

Get past the clunky interface, turn off the sound and ignore the crude graphics; AI War is a masterpiece of real-time strategy gaming.

A first-person horror game where you must make your way through a terrifying mansion that houses a sinister machine.

One of the most terrifying video game experiences ever created, Amnesia: Dark Descent is a haunting, nightmarish, but brilliant experience.

Take the ubiquitous tower defence genre, turn it on its head, add some great production values, and you've got Anomaly: Warzone Earth.

A real-time strategy with tower defence elements, where you defend against a series of zombie invasions within a 1950s setting.

A sprawling open-world isometric RPG, where you build a party of adventurers and uncover a plot to destroy the alliance…

First available on the Xbox 360 in July 2011, it was ported to Steam a month later, and was even…

Arkham Asylum sees you take the role of the eponymous Batman. Skilled at hand-to-hand combat, as well as wielding high-tech gadgets and even doing some detective work, the game sees you donning the Batcape and trying to regain control of the titular asylum, now overrun with various criminals, including of course, Batman's arch-enemy, The Joker.

As a sequel to an astonishingly good game, Arkham City manages to do the impossible, delivering a game that improves on every aspect of the original whilst keeping a firm grip on what made it so good in the first place.

Taken on its own merit, Beat Hazard is a reasonably good time, a shoot-em-up that you'd expect to find in any arcade in the early 90s. Having levels created from particular songs elevates it to being something you must own if you enjoy the genre. You can enjoy the irony of shooting things in space whilst listening to the Star Wars theme, or take a more surreal approach and enjoy the irony of shooting things in space whilst listening to some Gospel music. The possibilities are truly endless.

A classic point-and-click adventure game set in a dystopian future where you must unravel a sinister mystery surrounding your abduction.

A tactical turn-based roguelike where you take control of a squad of customisable mechs, and must build up your forces for an inevitable confrontation with a robotic enemy.

Billed as "the spiritual successor to System Shock"*, Bioshock features weak gunplay, heavy scripting, and not particularly inspired RPG elements. Forget all of that though, because the art direction, sound and lighting design and storyline make it a wonderful experience, and worthy of its predecessor.

A critically-acclaimed first-person shooter featuring similar gameplay mechanics and themes to previous BioShock games, BioShock Infinite takes place in the flying city of Columbia.

A point-and-click adventure game series where the heroine and her ethereal partner solve mysterious to help ghosts in the afterlife.

Borderlands takes the Diablo gameplay of mindless destruction and endless looting, then gives it guns and vehicles and puts it…

Polished, engaging gameplay and a stellar port make Borderlands 2 one of the best games available on the Mac today.

The follow-up to Borderlands 2, set before the events of Borderlands 2… in space!

Amanita Design is well known for its Samarost and Machinarium games. The unique, hand-drawn art style applied to an easy to grasp point-and-click adventure game has been successful for them so far, and Botanicula is no exception.

Double Fine’s Kickstarted return to point-and-click adventure gaming results in Broken Age, where the player controls two characters in two…

Packed full of ideas, a great cast and a head-banging soundtrack, Brütal Legend seems simply too awesome to go wrong. But like a one-man-band at a Heavy Metal concert, the end result is a confusing mess of different noises, none of which are what you paid for.

Taking the classic Call of Duty first-person shooter series in a new direction, Modern Warfare puts the player in control of a number of different characters in its single-player campaign, as well as introducing new features to multiplayer games.

Black Ops is an adrenaline-fulled rollercoaster of a game, so long as the technical issues don't get you down.