Downloadable games are getting bigger and better every year and this entry into my top 15 covers all but three of them which will appear separately higher up my list. Those three are Bastion, You Don’t Know Jack and The Binding of Issac. I had so many others I wanted to include on my list I just decided to lump them all together so here goes.

Orcs Must Die, Terraria, Ms. Splosion Man, From Dust, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Minecraft, Magicka are just a few amongst many more amazing Downloadable games and that’s not even touching PSN games. You can probably find a game that would appear in the top 10 (maybe even top 5) for each Genre within the downloadable games released this year, that’s just how good the quality has been along with the variety of games released.

What’s great about downloadable games right now is that a lot of them are either completely new games or have some innovative ideas in them which we don’t see in full retail releases for a variety of reasons. That’s a trend I hope never stops and something which is getting more and more prominent each and every year.

Downloadable games still have a few issues to resolve, regional availability being a major one of those (although not a problem unique to digital games). With the Trenched/Iron Brigade nonsense and with games such as Apples to Apples and You Don’t Know Jack not being released in Europe is just dividing the community more than what is needed. Microsoft are doing an absolutely terrible job with their regional availability and communicating that to everyone (actually, Microsoft are terrible at all Community Management but that’s another subject). Valve does a better job with Steam although it can sometimes be a bit unclear with release times but it’s usually fine. The Playstation Store has its fair share of issues when it comes to actual releases their communication is top notch, having a dedicated blog for Europe and America as well as a weekly list of all content available on the store for that week along with prices is amazing and something that everyone needs to be doing.

These are issues I’m sure will be resolved in the next generation but until then as long as they’re kept to a minimum I’m happy so I can continue to enjoy all the amazing games that are released on all platforms digitally.