Minecraft

Minecraft, Minecraft, Minecraft, Minecraft, Minecraft.

It's honestly less like a lifetime supply of crack, and more like a lifetime supply of all the resources you need to make your own.

So, I imagine most people have already been at least a little bit exposed to it, but for those people who haven't, it's a little block-based video game. You collect blocks, so you can use blocks to build blocky houses, so you can survive the night. Also monsters come out when it gets dark. You can use the basic blocks you collect to make better blocks, and tools, and weapons.

That's honestly pretty much it.

Like most things that shouldn't be quite so amazingly addictive, it is. Incredibly, incredibly addictive.

You wouldn't expect a game like this to be scary, either, but it is. The first night, especially, and I think I've figured out why. Most 'horror' games anymore, you get a bazooka, a flamethrower, and a shotgun by the final act, and that's enough if you're careful with your bullets.

In Minecraft, even the very best weapon in the game is a melee weapon, so you spend the whole game hugging your torches and dropping more torches everywhere, because it becomes less a war on monsters, and more a war on darkness.

And the darkness is everywhere. The darkness hates you. The darkness wants your blood. You cannot save yourself from the darkness, you can only push it back, postpone your inevitable death.

Oh, and most of the building materials you can use to protect yourself? Will also hurt you.

Have fun!

Go here first if you want to try it.

Then go here to buy/play it. Best $20 I've ever spent.