Daniel Mullins, the creator of beloved indie horror mindfuck Pony Island, is back with more genre-bending antics. His new murder mystery game, The Hex, has a central conceit with which I became immediately enamoured: all the suspects are stand-ins for different video game genres.

Two things I bet you didn't think you'd see next to each other this week: Pony Island, a game about possessed unicorns shooting laser beams and the Devil, and Electronic Arts.

In 2016, I surprised myself. I surprised myself by playing more games than I thought I would, and more games than I probably have in the three years preceding it combined. Some I liked, some I didn't. Here are the ones that held my attention for more than a couple of minutes at a time.

If you haven't played Pony Island, chances are you might have seen someone on your friends list playing or someone talking about the game somewhere. It's a quirky, cool game that likes to subvert your expectations -- in more ways than one.