Journey

This is one of those creations that changes the way you perceive one or the other thing, in this case- games. I used to think that games are just for people who have an unfulfilled desire to be destructive (with all the action games and such) or for kids, or just to fill the time. Every game I tried felt like a waste of time and brings this guilt that I could be doing something productive instead. But not this one.
Journey is an indie game developed by Thatgamecompany (nice name by the way) in 2012 and I like to think of it as not a game but rather interactive art. The game allows the player to control both the main character and the camera angles, which is really beneficial to the experience because the background design is just mind blowing. There is no dialogue, destructiveness or losing for that matter. The game takes the player through a journey towards a shining star in the mountains, as the character goes towards the star, it discovers an abandoned city that once was a thriving civilization which is sort of a parallel to the protagonists journey. It is the kind of game that you come back to play again every now and then.