Gish is a very innovative platform game, with realistic physics that make it fresh and fun. It earned two prizes in the 2005 Independent Games Festival, namely Innovation in Game Design and the coveted Seamus McNally Award! It was also Game Tunnel's 2004 Indie Game of the Year. I like how you can get to places in this game that you can't in other games, like clinging to the ceiling and oozing into small cracks and crevices. There are so many different things you can do in this game, and so many different ways to overcome or get around obstacles that you can really be creative. As expected, there are lots of hidden areas to find, including Warp Zones that take you to... well, you'll have to play it to see for yourself! The game earns a Teen rating, however, because it does have some mild, cartoonish blood splatters when you land on your enemies. It is fairly tame, but it is there nonetheless.

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** Note for Linux users: You must have SDL, OpenAL, and Ogg Vorbis installed for Gish to work properly. Gish also must be run in X from the actual folder its installed in. If you have problems with Gish crashing make sure your desktop is in 24 or 32 bit color. Also try running Gish with the no music option (./gish -nomusic) or the no sound option (./gish -nosound). To turn the sound back on you must use ./gish -sound.