Poinpy
Poinpy might not be quite as perfect as developer Ojiro Fumoto 2015 GotY contender Downwell, but it’s damn close. Last time around, Fumoto had players chasing high scores while falling ever deeper toward certain doom. In Poinpy you scale ever higher in search of fruit to keep the beast below you fed. It’s reductive to call it a mashup of Celeste and Angry Birds, but it nails the twitchy joy and compulsive puzzles of both. A Netflix-published mobile game that’s been praised plenty throughout the year, Poinpy might not be as under the radar as some of the other games on this list, but it deserves all of those accolades and more.
