10 Best Video Games Of 2024 You're NOT Playing

10. Nobody Wants To Die

If there's one thing we're seeing a ton of in the modern gaming industry, it's fully-fledged, sometimes graphically rich and all-round decently produced titles, with zero marketing. This leads to layoffs and closures across the board - looking at you, Alone in the Dark reboot - as it's safe to say that many games' time to prove themselves is a few months, at best.

Nobody Wants to Die is the debut Blade Runner-style cyber-noir thriller from Critical Hit, an absolutely stunning, Unreal 5-backed detective game that's essentially the Batman: Arkham titles' crime scene gadgets, mixed with the mind-maps and conclusions of a Frogwares Sherlock game, plus L.A. Noire's sleazy, 1940s crime caper soundtrack.

It absolutely slaps from moment one, firing out the gates with one of the coolest displays of modern graphical tech seen this generation, a potential one-trick pony approach that feeds directly into completely absorbing you in its world. Art direction, voice acting, plot drive and all-round immersion are the reason to play Nobody Wants to Die.

Story-wise it's a meaty framing of what life is like in a city that actively lets people live forever, trading consciousnesses into increasingly younger bodies, but it's also about having detective James Karra pull out a hip flask as he sits on a neon sign, drinking in the endless steel structures that make up this futuristic New York City.

The VERY end and how the story goes has proven a bit divisive amongst fans, but in terms of executing on a vision and taking you on a journey, there are few more confident stories and art directions this year.