Dismissing these games just because they're not conventional "games" is insanely stupid. Video game are an insanely powerful medium for story telling, and limiting yourself to one narrow subset is just a shame.
Soma, Talos Principle, The Valley, Kona, Firewatch, To the Moon, Everybody Has Gone to the Rapture. Have all been extremely enjoyable experiences.
Really hoping for more to discover in this genre.
Anyway, there is no innovation without mistakes. If you want new kind of high quality experience, you need to accept a lot of failures will happen in the process.
All you have to say to me is a boring complaint about Limbo. Have you played through the game? It's a short, well-crafted puzzle-platformer with interesting art, animations, and sound design. It's just fine if you personally didn't like what the game did, but dismissing it as a Mario reskin is ridiculous.
I think it's cool that Microsoft is giving Minecraft players a way to support content-creators. They aren't forcing content-creators to offer their content for a fee; free mods will continue to exist. And they certainly aren't putting base gameplay behind paywalls like some mobile games do.
[0] - https://www.google.com/search?q=best+games+released+in+2010
[1] - Which was an awesome game that you might dismiss as a ""philosophical", "artsy" highly-hyped Mario clone".