# The best video games of 2024

2024's games with the best critic scores on Metacritic and the Game of the Year nominees at The Game Awards. No DLC or remasters; remakes count.

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- Sep 4, 2025 · noelia_pixel
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## Top 15

1. **Astro Bot** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Metascore 94. Team Asobi's platformer that won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024.
2. **Metaphor: ReFantazio** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Metascore 94. Atlus' RPG about an election for the throne; Best RPG at The Game Awards 2024.
3. **Final Fantasy VII Rebirth** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Metascore 92. The second part of the remake, with Cloud's party now outside Midgar.
4. **UFO 50** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Metascore 91. Fifty new games with an 8-bit look, from the team behind Spelunky.
5. **Satisfactory** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Metascore 91. First-person factory building on an alien planet, after years in early access.
6. **Animal Well** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Metascore 90. A puzzle metroidvania made single-handedly by Billy Basso.
7. **Thank Goodness You're Here!** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Metascore 89. Absurd slapstick comedy set in a northern English town.
8. **Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Metascore 89. Ichiban Kasuga and Kazuma Kiryu, from Yokohama to Hawaii.
9. **Mullet MadJack** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Metascore 88. A frantic 90s-anime-style shooter where you must kill every 10 seconds to stay alive.
10. **Kill Knight** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Metascore 88. A fast isometric twin-stick shooter.
11. **Shogun Showdown** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Metascore 88. A one-lane turn-based tactical roguelike set in feudal Japan.
12. **Caves of Qud** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Metascore 91. A science-fiction roguelike with a huge generated world, after 17 years in development.
13. **Balatro** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Metascore 90. LocalThunk's poker roguelike, made by a single person; it won three awards at The Game Awards 2024.
14. **Lorelei and the Laser Eyes** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Metascore 88. Puzzles in a mysterious hotel, from the makers of Sayonara Wild Hearts.
15. **Tekken 8** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Metascore 90. Bandai Namco's fighting series, with its aggressive Heat system.
16. **Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Metascore 88. The Switch remake of the 2004 GameCube RPG.
17. **The Crimson Diamond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Metascore 88. A mystery adventure with 16-colour EGA graphics set in Canada.
18. **Black Myth: Wukong** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Chinese action game based on Journey to the West; nominated for Game of the Year and won Best Action at The Game Awards 2024.

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