Super Meat Boy

Developer/publisher Team Meat Format 360, PC, PS4, Switch, Vita, Wii U Release 2010

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Super Meat Boy Forever, indeed. The forthcoming sequel to the beloved precision platformer feels completely justified: there’s something about the series that deserves to stay with us, long after the original’s 2010 release.

Upon returning to Super Meat Boy, there’s one aspect that immediately stands out: its celebration of mistakes. Contemporary games still often treat player deaths as an aberration; in Assassin’s Creed, for example, the concept of desynchronization suggests that your slip-ups don’t belong in the story, but are rather an error to be corrected. And before that,