I think that no game can compare to the charm that Botanicula brings. It's a wonderfully unique game in any way I can care to think of. Firstly, you play as a little group of five plant-y things. They only ever speak in gibberish, which is pretty awesome. Not only that, but every other character only uses gibberish – the only text that ever appears is on the title screen and the options screen. They use little animated image bubbles to convey their messages, and it's actually a wonderful way to narrate the story. It seems that emotions are a lot more easily shown through this method, or something! Secondly, it's funnily funny. At parts. The graphics are beautiful, the puzzles range from logic to intuition to twitch-movements, and the soundtrack is truly extraordinary. It's a suitable length, and has an abundance of easter eggs and hidden treats (literally – there's like 60 in total).

The actual story is rather simple: there's these strange spider things that suck the life out of your tree (which is basically the equivalent of your entire world). Mr Lantern (one of the characters you play as) has found the last remaining seed of the tree, and has thus taken the responsibility to run away from the spiders and plant a new tree, which would save everyone! He gathers his four friends, and together you run through a multitude of surreal worlds on this tree, trying to find a way off the tree. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you fail, sometimes you get confused and just sit there smiling at the ingenuity of it all. Then you complete it, with a tear in your eye, and can live your life twenty times better than before. And more...!

Seriously, though, Botanicula is my favourite game of all time. There should be a law in place that forces everyone to play it at least three times. :3

Oh, and their actual site is here. You can play a demo of it there. But get it anyway!!1 :D