Last game that pleasantly surprised you

Sid Meier's Ace Patrol, pretty decent for what should be a facebook game.

Deadly Premonition. The port could be better but the game is amazing.

Bit.trip runner 2. The first one was nice but I couldn't get into it... A friend gifted me the new one and it's surprisingly accessible and fun. I recommend playing it on hard mode and with a controller.

Recettear and Don't Starve I also got some time ago as gifts... Had heard things about them but didn't expect to put 25 and 45 hours into each of them.

Special mention to Quantum Conundrum, which I got in SG. It was probably my GOTY. Fucking love that game.

Sleeping Dogs. I enjoyed the setting, driving and the story way more than I expected, but I started with the expectation of a gta/saints row clone, so...

To the moon.

Gunpoint surprised me. Never been a fan of puzzle/strategy games, but I really enjoyed this game :D

Runespell: Overture. i had that thing on my backlog for almost 2 years. it's much more interesting that i thought.

spec ops the line and poof!

KickBeat on PS Vita. All 18 tracks are my favorite now. I play it at least once a week, and try to get all red stars. Not going to buy it on Steam, cause those 6 enV tracks are importable via BYM, but I recommend to everybody, who likes HARD rhytm games, and most importantly have a controller.

La-Mulana, I had never heard of it before I saw it on sale.Did a quick bit of research and found out it's a metroidvania, so I bought it. Games is really good fun.

rogue legacy

Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten I won at SG. played it 6h straight

I got Psychonauts from Humble Bundle V, and I didn't play it until a couple days ago (and even then I was just planning on getting the trading cards and selling them off and not ever touching the game again). I didn't think I'd like it because it sounded too weird. And now I'm thinking it's my favorite game. Go figure.

The new DmC and Tomb Raider 2013 - both awesome and underrated games.

I get surprised by nothing.

To the Moon. Hell of a story.

Tomb Raider, awesome game.

Bit.Trip Runner. I bought it on a whim during the winter sale when it was ridiculously priced at about one euro and it blew my mind. That game is pure win. Just not for the ADHD generation.

GTA IV

Why you might ask? Well, first, I never got to play this game until that sweet Amazon offer came out, so I got the game, installed it and tweaked graphics options to the possible minimum. Last time I tried to run the game, it was a pirated version, and back then I didn't know much about graphics card and all that shit, plus the fact that I thought I had a good pc. My surprise when I first ran the game? Like 5 fps, totally unplayable, so I uninstalled it right away.
But now I managed to make it run, and what a surprise. Game is awesome, I don't get why lots of people said the game was boring compared to older GTA titles, and some even said the game was bad. Well, I found nothing bad about it, really fun, new exciting stuff, better graphics and physics, and a kinda different story. Yea, maybe Niko is a boring character, but if you can get past that, the game is sweet as hell, and the more I play it the more I like it.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Bioshock Infinite, and Gone Home!

Solar 2. I dismissed it as another space trade/fight/explore sim (which I wouldn't particularly like), then I tried it and discovered a fun, humorous, challenging action game than ran perfectly on the modest hardware I'm using these days.

Insurgency

Can't remember the name of the game... I just can't... And I can't log into Steam (because Steam is fucking with me again), but it was a game that has been given away a while ago... Point and click about ghosts, by something-eye...

Monaco.