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This year, we're counting down our 10 favourite games of the year in daily articles. We'll reveal our game of the year on 1st January 2016. The top ten was decided by a vote among Eurogamer staff and contributors, and we didn't even fiddle the results!There are small moments in each Life is Strange episode where you can simply sit a while and rest. Max, the series' protagonist, is allowed to reflect and take stock before the game's wonderful ambient score picks up the silence. The camera drifts across your surroundings - to Dontnod's hand-drawn visuals, its warm autumnal colours - and lets you pause for as long as you like, to drink in the atmosphere of sleepy Arcadia Bay.
In its leafy college campus and around the small town's streets there lies a mystery to uncover and a fantastical threat to investigate, but all of this sinks into the background in service of the game's characters and their own personal lives. Max roots the series as a drama seen through the eyes of someone already dealing with everything life throws at a young adult - and then some. The story is also handled with a surprising maturity that allows themes such as abuse, depression and suicide to be explored without their inclusion ever becoming plot devices.
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