The best video games of 2024

The RPG genre saw a modern renaissance, with an overwhelming number of releases from studios big and small.

Metaphor: ReFantazio has a real case as the best one, thanks to a dazzling art style full of funky fantasy designs and a soundtrack overflowing with operatic rapping.

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is the only game of 2024 — and probably of all time up to this point — that made me emotional during a karaoke cutscene.

Astro Bot is an incredibly tight, clever, and wonderfully designed 3D platformer that’s also a firehose of PlayStation nostalgia that doesn’t always hit right.

Helldivers 2 is also a co-op game about satirically fascist soldiers shooting bugs.

UFO 50 is a collection of 50 original games from a fictional company spanning several real eras of game design.

Despite some technical hiccups, Silent Hill 2 's gripping narrative, terrifying atmosphere, and polished mechanics make it a shining example of how remakes should be done.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink is a strangely named but undeniably excellent action RPG with a huge cast of a few dozen playable characters.

EA Sports College Football 25 has problems, but as a celebration of its subject matter, CFB 25 is premium-grade stuff.