21. DEFCON: Everybody Dies

Publisher: Steam / Introversion Software
Developer: Introversion Software
Released: September
Primary platform: PC
Who wins when everybody dies? The answer is no one, because everybody’s dead. Think about that the next time you unleash a nuclear barrage in this, the most well-done and creepy independent-made game in a long while. Paying homage to the computer simulation in the Matthew Broderick film Wargames, the real-time strategy DEFCON is equal parts stark, tense, disturbing, and paranoia inducing. Best of all, it has guts enough not to sugarcoat things by making it seem like this kind of conflict is anything but a dead-end.