15 Single Player Games That Stunned Gamers

SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS

Even back in 2005, coming from the team that that made Ico, Shadow of the Colossus being as good as it was wasn’t necessarily a surprise. But on paper, a game like that shouldn’t work. It’s a desolate open world that doesn’t give players much to do by design, and other that the boss fights, there’s no combat whatsoever- and even the boss fights are more traversal puzzles and challenges than combat encounters. It was a bold and unique vision- but boy did they pull it off.