Amatyr

This game is a breath of fresh air. Really enjoyed the mix of platforming and puzzling. I finished it days ago and still keep coming back and thinking about it, which is a fantastic sign. The combination of meta and in-game jokes and puzzles really worked for me. Really funny, a great melding of different genres and well worth anyone's time.

The potential here is amazing. Just jumping in to fly around the universe is great fun - be that fighting, trading, exploring or all 3 at once as I tend to dabble with. I would recommend a solid HOTAS, the feeling of flying a spacecraft around with the throttle+stick is what pushes this up from a 7/8 for me. To be clear though, right now this is something of a sandbox - just like the original Elite - where you make your own play. You set your goals, rather than following some kind of plotline (although I do hope some sort of plotlines start to reveal themselves now that Release is here) but it's that kind of game.