Top 10 Downloadable Games of 2010

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FeaturePublish Date 27/12/2010 - 1:00pm GMT

Our pick of the games you can't buy in stores.

Well it's that time again when video game websites all over the globe start churning out their year-end Top-10 lists. Happy holidays, Internet! While you spend this time snowed in, unable to leave your house or get to work, why not check out these fantastic downloadable games?

Plants vs. Zombies - Xbox 360 and iPhone

A brilliantly simple concept: Tower defence meets zombies. With the help of comic writer Steve Notley, the guy who writes Bob the Angry Flower, along with a hilarious end-credit song by Laura Shigihara, Plants vs. Zombies is not only picture-perfect in its gameplay; it's all personality.

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SexyJams @ clangod

I think it was either 2008 or 2009.
I bought LIMBO yesterday. I have no idea how it's Number 2 GOTY, but it's good. I dunno... Number 2? Really?

Posted 10:19 on 01 January 2011

clangod

When was Trials HD released for the 360? Either way it is by far the best downloadable game I discovered in 2010. I'd put it head and shoulders above Limbo but Limbo is a gem all the same.

Posted 22:15 on 31 December 2010

reynoldio @ SexyJams

I must have been lucky then, will think more about my strategy and try to give some more tips!

Won Runner-Up a few times but I can't seem to get that elusive GOTY... maybe on the next playthrough :)

Posted 10:07 on 31 December 2010

SexyJams @ reynoldio

I never got a #1 game but did everything you said regularly. Guess my games just weren't the Mass Effect 2's and Red Dead Redemption's of the GameDev world.

Posted 18:14 on 30 December 2010

reynoldio @ GeNeCyDe1993

I just pump out games left right and centre, mixing it up a bit with different genres and things. Basically choose everything in the menu! I use Dead Bull sometimes, Advertise often - mixing it up again, Boosts, just everything!

I always do Research on the game mode too, gives me plenty of Research to use for the Boosts. Enjoy!

Posted 12:38 on 30 December 2010

GeNeCyDe1993 @ reynoldio

GIVE ME TIPS! :(

Posted 18:44 on 29 December 2010

Exactly this Genecyde, exactly this.

Family Christmas ignored as I was 100% focussed on GameDev! Slightly embarrassing, but there you go!

12 #1 games in a row though :)

Posted 17:38 on 29 December 2010

CheekyLee @ altaranga

Winterbottom seemed good on the XBLA demo, but I didn't quite think it was 1200 points worth of game. But then, Steam did their usual magic with the sale, and it is still available for £0.39p! I couldn't resist, and neither should you. Even if your PC will struggle, I suggest buying it at that price because Steam does travel from computer to computer with you. It will also always be resident in your account, so you'll never have to pay for it again.

Posted 10:05 on 29 December 2010

GeNeCyDe1993

Downloaded Game Dev Story, haven't been off it since. Brilliant game, shame im a bit late to the party though.

Posted 19:05 on 28 December 2010

SexyJams @ squidman

Hey, I hear he likes Nestle CoffeeMate, use tonnes of that.

Posted 18:39 on 28 December 2010

p0rtalthinker @ squidman

He does seem to be the type of man who enjoys cream and sugar... What where we talking about again?

Posted 17:52 on 28 December 2010

squidman @ SexyJams

The only reason James ghostwrites the entire website is because I spend most of my time trying to perfect a coffee-making technique adequate enough to please his demanding tastebuds.

Posted 16:58 on 28 December 2010

Feasible. Especially since you guys obviously just sit around the VG offices all day playing games and just make James Orry secretly write all the reviews.

Posted 16:56 on 28 December 2010

I dunno, Emily has a lot of free time. She probably could.

Posted 16:55 on 28 December 2010