The Way Down

44 games · titles, checked one by one.

Some roads do not run flat. They go down through stone stairs, old mines, temple ruins and caves that never see daylight. This corridor accepts only games with one underground place, one entrance, and one exit that sits deeper than where you started. Rejected: open worlds that ask you to repeat tasks for hours, games that want money to continue after a death, and games that use a loud noise as their only way of frightening you. We also reject caves that are merely a backdrop for a race. Every game here has an ending you can reach inside one session, and that is what makes the descent worth starting at all.