10 Best RPGs Of 2024

10. Dragon Age: The Veilguard

If any game illustrates the importance of a good ending, it's Veilguard.

The latest entry in the Dragon Age series certainly wasn't perfect. From its maddening tendency to have characters repeat information the player was given mere seconds ago to the lack of inter-party conflict that defined previous Dragon Age casts (Morrigan roasting Alistair, Fenris butting heads with every mage he met), Veilguard's tale was like a lumpy family sofa - comfortable, but overstuffed and unsurprising

Unsurprising, that is, until Bioware's best finale since Mass Effect 2.

Veilguard's final act is a bombastic, pulse-pounding ending that pays off all the effort (or lack of it) players put into building relationships with the cast and various factions. Who lives and dies depends entirely on your choices (and people will die), resulting in arguably the best ending of 2024.

It's not that Veilguard wasn't enjoyable before its conclusion - dashing around the battlefield as a dual-wielding rogue was great fun, and some characters were great additions to Dragon Age's ever-expanding cast (Emmrich is a delightful gent of the old-school, and Taash's brusque sense of humour was a reliable delight) - but that glorious finale is what pushed Veilguard from an enjoyable game into a memorable one.