10 Awesome Games You Definitely Missed In 2024
The best games of the year that everyone slept on.
Though it's probably fair to say that 2024 hasn't quite been an all-timer year for video games like 2023 was, it has nevertheless served up a platter of brilliant games which rightly got their time in the sun - Astro Bot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Metaphor: ReFantazio, to name just a few.
But with thousands upon thousands of games now being released every single year, discoverability is a massive issue for developers, and simply making a fantastic game just isn't enough.
And so, it's becoming distressingly common for awesome games to get lost in the shuffle because they don't have massive marketing budgets, get released at the wrong time, or just fail to break out of their niche target audience.
And that's sadly the case with each of these 10 games, which while generally well-received by critics and players who actually bothered to play them, were largely ignored by the masses.
Granted, as players it's tough to keep track of every quality game coming down the pike on a given week, but if you've slept on these titles to date, they're all desperately deserving of your attention...
10. Nobody Wants to Die
If, like most everyone else, you're impatiently waiting for the next BioShock, you can kill a few hours of that time with Nobody Wants to Die - a first-person narrative-driven noir adventure game set in a dystopian 24th century New York.
One of the most visually striking games released this year, this is a AA game with AAA production values, for though the investigative gameplay isn't doing anything especially original, the gorgeous visuals and enticing central serial killer hunt make for a consistently compelling ride.
To see such a slick and glossy game clock in at a modest 5-6 hours is so incredibly rare, which might also explain the game's fairly low profile since it launched back in July.
For many enticed by the game's marketing, which unsurprisingly focused on its stunning visuals, they may have wished it were a longer and more involved experience on the level of, say, a BioShock, which might explain its lack of staying power in the gaming conversation.
But for time-poor players who want to entrench themselves in a rich world for a breezy afternoon, it's just the ticket.