{"id":87615,"date":"2026-08-14T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87615"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:38:53","slug":"inside-is-the-closest-thing-to-a-perfect-game-ive-ever-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87615","title":{"rendered":"Inside Is the Closest Thing to a \u2018Perfect\u2019 Game I\u2019ve Ever Played"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><em>This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains \u201cthe Xbox guy.\u201d In the run-up to Xbox\u2019s 25th anniversary, he\u2019ll be sharing his memories from the platform\u2019s first quarter-century. <\/em><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p>Inside. Holy shit. That\u2019s still the first thing that comes to mind when I think about that game. It has now been 10 years since it was released\u2026 as an Xbox exclusive. I expect most people probably don\u2019t remember this, but Inside was, for a brief few days in late June\/early July 2016, only available on Xbox One. It then released the following week on PC, but it would be almost two months until it arrived on PS4 at the end of August. <\/p>\n<p>While Inside was eventually available to play almost everywhere, it\u2019s worth remembering that it was the long-awaited follow-up to 2010\u2019s Limbo, itself one of the best games of the Xbox 360 era <em>and<\/em> one of the defining games of the brilliant Xbox Live Arcade downloadable-game initiative. If you ask me what my favorite XBLA game ever is, my answer was and probably still is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, who worked at Official Xbox Magazine from 2002-2012 during the original Xbox and Xbox 360 era before joining IGN, where he remains \u201cthe Xbox guy.\u201d In the run-up to Xbox\u2019s 25th anniversary, he\u2019ll be sharing his memories from the platform\u2019s first quarter-century. Inside. Holy shit. That\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":87617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87619,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87615\/revisions\/87619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}