Although 2024 wasn’t the strongest year for the gaming community, it still brought some incredible releases. Picking the best games from 2024 is no easy task. Many titles from last year were quickly overshadowed by older, more popular games. However, that doesn’t mean they weren’t brilliantly engaging and worth playing.
As the new year approaches, it’s natural to reflect on the year that just passed. Many in the gaming community may have overlooked or missed some of 2024’s standout titles. To make up for that and gear up for the year ahead, let’s take a look back at the best games of 2024.
Unfortunately, no game is created equal, and no platform is equal either. Therefore, this article has been divided into four lists to represent the four platforms: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo. So, read on to find out what the best games of 2024 were for each platform.
This list was compiled using information and scores retrieved from Metacritic.com
PC
An amazing role-playing experience focused on a turn-based combat system blended with some real-time action. Set in a fantasy realm with a cutthroat fight for the throne, this RPG is certainly not one to miss.
This game is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder. Play illegal poker hands, discover game-breaking jokers, and create adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos. This poker roguelike is unlike anything seen before.
In this game, you control the path of a single bullet unleashed by your fury of vengeance. Grab your sniper rifle—it’s time to eliminate the sinister cult that ruined your life. This tactical puzzle-shooter offers dark and exciting fun for everyone.
A sequel to the much-beloved Hades, this game offers much of the same intense fun and challenge. Go beyond the Underworld as you take on the Titan of Time. A great sequel to the wonderful roguelike dungeon crawler.
They are the Galaxy’s Last Line of Offense. It’s time to enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom. Battle across a hostile galaxy in a frantic and chaotic third-person shooter.
Xbox Series X/S
Although not a full game, and more of an added DLC to the original 2022 action RPG, Shadow of the Erdtree adds plenty of new weapons, equipment, skills, and magic. Challenging players with new enemies, boss encounters, and plotlines, there is much more to Elden Ring than before.
Larger-than-life heroes Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu are brought together by the hand of fate. Although that hand seems to be something more sinister. Explore the lively streets of Japan and discover all that Hawaii has to offer in this RPG adventure—an adventure so large it stretches across the ocean.
Shin Megami Tensei V is primarily a turn-based JRPG, although it also includes some top-down exploration in and around the city of Tokyo. There are also various first-person explorations in the different dungeons of the game. With a lot to offer, those who enjoyed Persona are sure to enjoy this dark and mysterious experience.
If the first one wasn’t enough to satiate your appetite for legendary gameplay from Hideo Kojima, then be prepared for this expanded definitive DIRECTOR’S CUT.
For those who love to get right into the action and feed off combat, Tekken is your game. Get into the ring and prepare to fight in this legendary fighting game franchise.
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PlayStation 5
As Astro, the player heads out to save lost Bots, retrieve various parts for the PlayStation 5 mothership, and defeat the alien Space Bully Nebulax. Like its predecessor, Astro’s Playroom (2020), the game takes full advantage of the DualSense controller.
Upon escaping from Midgar, Cloud and his friends set out on a journey across the planet. New and exciting adventures await them in a vibrant and vast world. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is a standalone entry in the FFVII remake trilogy!
This delightful, casual, single-player adventure RPG is not one expected to be seen on a list like this. Featuring deep-sea exploration, join Dave and his quirky friends as they try to uncover the secrets surrounding the mysterious Blue Hole.
A free-to-play action MMO, Destiny 2 includes a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free. The Final Shape is the newest DLC added to this action MMO.
Set four years after The Last of Us (2013), Ellie sets out for revenge while Abby becomes embroiled in a conflict between her militia and a religious cult. Playing in third-person, the player must fight their way to survival with firearms, improvised weapons, and stealth.
Nintendo Switch
Included in this collection are three incredible action-adventure games from the Castlevania series. In this fun side-scrolling adventure, players take on Dracula in this thrilling story of family and revenge.
Explore this mysterious labyrinth and unravel its many secrets. Collect items in order to manipulate your surroundings in various ways. You need to do what you can to survive what lurks in the dark.
Thrusting players into a living illustrated world, set during a time when Europe was at a crossroads of great religious and political change, players take on the role of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of several scandals and surprising intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Uncover and experience the moving story of a young woman and her strange bond with a majestic wolf. Watch as they embark on a thrilling adventure across a dying world.
This thrilling action-adventure platformer is set in a mythological Persian world—a world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate. There is much to uncover in this action-adventure game, more than meets the eye.
