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the Stragtory must grow
Alright as nobody wants to create this thread apparently I will half-butt it. 
Introduction
As 2024 comes to a close, it's time to celebrate the incredible games that defined the year! From groundbreaking remakes of washed-up IPs to famous franchises that reached new lows, this year has given us plenty of unforgettable gaming moments. Whether you were swept away by jaw-dropping visuals, gripping arguments in our current culture war, or derivative gameplay mechanics, there's no doubt that 2024 was a stellar year for g*mers everywhere. And if you didn't care about the highs, what about the lows? Sony even managed to one-down Suicide Squad with Concord as the biggest failure of the year, Ubisoft became an even bigger laughing stock while Nintendo still didn't release the Switch 2 and instead focused on bringing down emulators while seething about Palworld's success. I'd say something derogatory about Xbox too but honestly there's not even anything to even frick up. Whatever, the year was overshadowed by the sheer endless DEI cultural war and I'm just so tired. In fact, every game should either look like Scarlet Blade or Nethack.
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In this thread, we're asking you to share your picks for Game of the Year! What game captured your heart or dominated your playtime? Was it a AAA blockbuster, an indie masterpiece, or something entirely unexpected?
Did you finally find the right gacha to jerk off too?
Did you use the year to work on your backlog instead?
Did you even play a single game released in 2024 instead of depressingly queuing up your favourite endless game that you don't even like?
2024 was one of the better years in the past decade with many genuinely fantastic titles - and 2025 looks even better. Gaming is le saved - regardless if woke is le devil or not.
I unironically love these pictures, same with non-buynary 
Previous Years
2022 - Elden Ring
2023 - Baldur's Gate 3
idk ctrl-f popular titles and these were the largest hits
Releases
Here's a short look at some of the most trending releases of 2024:
But it wouldn't make sense to include all of them on the list, r-right? That's why I went out of my way and queried rdrama's data base to find the 20 (or so) most mentioned games released in 2024 on this site. Anything goes too! DLC, Mod, Remake, Release, Early Access? I don't care. Isn't that just amazing? Anyway, here are the nominations:
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carp, capy, geto, ninjjer, donger, elfy pin please 
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im still playing balatro every day i really thought i would get sick of it but shit is like crack
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really
i have like 15h and I'm done
it's pretty sweet
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I got checks notes 350 hours
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Play Rogue Trader, you will be mindraped with autism instead
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no
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Balatro is the only new game I played this year.
It's good for a phone game
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No contest
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multiplayer is sweaty as frick
they even have garfield.io to track your performance
skill-based matchmaking ruined it
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Multiplayer is for tryhard virgins, play Rogue Trader instead
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Are you sure we're talking about a garfield game here?
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Rogue Trader trader is the superior Go Kart game
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does the cat eat za in game?
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Garf!!! This is 3rd in a series of sixteen(!) garf-like games, and Exciting!!!
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We already had this and Dread Delusion won
https://rdrama.net/post/328634/the-rdrama-game-of-the-year
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How come it beats more dramatic games of that year as concord and dragon age ?
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It's literally just that good.
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Rogue Trader is literally just that good
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Rogue Trader is more dramatic than those loser soycuck games, go play Rogue Trader
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Computer, add rogue trader to the list
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it can win again
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Dread Delusion won
Balatro lost
Final fantasy lost
Console chads lost
Ubislop lost
Astro bot lost
Switch lost
Marsey lost
AAA lost
Silent hill lost
Pokemon (pc) lost
Helldivers lost
Rogue trader lost
Tekken lost
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Atylss will have more staying power as a retro 3d style dungeon game, you can mark my words on that.
!furries stay winning
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Now thats a
game if I ever saw one
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Rogue Trader wins
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Fixed
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WRONG
Rogue Trader is so awesome it cured cancer, solved world hunger, and r*pes communists
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How about Tekken
Trans lives matter
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Updated
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Dread Delusion is a good game, surprised it won considering it's indie and very niche.
Vaccines work at making profit.
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Jewish lives matter.
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Civilization IV
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Rogue Trader controls several hundred planetary systems, CIV cucks control one measly nation on one measly planet
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Caveman 2 Cosmos and Final Frontier
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Rogue Trader has many frontiers, where you genocide xenos (immigrants) and heretics (micks)
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How far have you gotten? I got to Act IV and got burnt out. Might try picking it up again this weekend. I wish the planetary/economic management was more developed and nuanced
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Once you get past Act 4, your parents will love you, and you'll get a raise
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Rogue Trader is insane because it's a very good game that has so many obvious places where it could be better.
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The virgin IP slop vs the chad original product
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Rogue Slop Trader is the superior IP and has the blessing of the God-Emperor
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Can you kill three pops
to rushbuild a courthouse? 
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A courthouse whose construction required the sacrifice of so few of the emperor's subjects is not an artifice worthy of dispensing the emperor's judgement
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Sounds like a Stellaris knockoff.
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Stellaris sounds like a Rogue Trader Knockoff
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Stellaris won rDrama's game of the year in 2016. Your game didn't even crack the top 20 in the most dry year since this award started being hosted.
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It's normal to explore your interest in adult diapers
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Reddit game, reddit game, reddit game, reddit game, reddit game, reddit game, reddit game, reddit game.
My vote is for Flatout 2
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yes every game is reddit
except actual reddit games (team fortress 2, deep rock galactic)
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Rogue Trader is anti-Reddit, vote Rogue Trader
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Vote for Rogue Trader, it's anti-normie and anti-soy
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i like cafeworld
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I didn't play any of these but Concord brought me the most enjoyment
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Rogue Trader brought mankind and the God-Emperor the most enjoyment
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Same. The Jazz/Bazz/Black neofoid edits were delightfull.
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Putting in early acces and live-service slop like Hades 2 and Concord but not Infinite Wealth
Anyway, easily Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (or Yakuza 8).
A massive game with over a hundred hours of polished content.
The story isn't as amazing as Yakuza 7, but it's still very good, and was the first time RGG made a followup story that relied heavily on the previous game.
However the gameplay, QOL and side-content (that the Yakuza series is famous for), is just a straight up an improvement from 7 in every single way.
The new map is larger but just as detailed, and they reuse Ichiban's Yokohoma for Kiryu's segments, which as really fun. You coule tell they put a lot of effort into making Hawaii as accurate as possible, down to making a 3rd of the npcs obese
It didn't have nearly the audience of the other GOTYs because if how it relies on you playing 7 to fully enjoy it, but I think it is easily the best game to come this year, and I look foward to Ichi's next adventure.
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Their mistake was releasing at the beginning of the year. Even though it's totally my GOTY (despite bullshit ng+ preorder stuff), i forgot i was even obsessed with it by october.
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Yeah releasing it on January is suicide for goty because of recency bias lol.
I like the release though because I got to play in tropical Hawaii while it was winter irl
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oh frick i knew i missed something
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Everyone vote Dragon Age if you know what's good for you...
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Everyone vote for Rogue Trader if you know what's good for you.
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People here call them self dramatic, vote as soys
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That's fricking dire. All slop except for the carp game and a couple I haven't heard of.
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yes all games are slop (like half at most maybe)
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All games are slop, except Rogue Trader
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Rogue Trader is not slop, and mogs carps inferior game
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It's not in the list though
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It's a drama site, top 3 most dramatic games this year: Blank myths, Dragon age and concord
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suicide squad instead of monkey game no?
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It was very forgettable. Monkey game devs were very angry they didn't win goty and even posted about how they deserved to win, probably Ye West Easter egg
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Where dustborn
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Where Rogue Trader
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In the loser bin with other garbage like final stragtasy and asstro butt
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Rogue Trader is on the trophy stand, all other gaymes in the bin
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I havent seen much sneed about monkey BIPOC myffz
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It's mostly on between righteous gaymers and leftist gaymers journ*list
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!besties
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Put Rise of the Ronin in the poll you BIPOC
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You are a dumb BIPOC. You are the biggest blackest r-slur gorilla BIPOC i have ever seen.
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shill me on the game then literally don't know anything about it
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Team ninja combat.
Story is surprisingly good and in depth.
Team ninja combat.
Open world works well.
The combat really is something else.
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NEIGHBOR that game released in 2023 (I think)
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It was spiritually finished in 2024, everybody knows it takes Owlcat 1 year to iron out bugs, Baldurs Soy 3 got fricking 3 years of Early Access, Owlcat deserves slak
!g*mers
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What was even the plot of that game? I got 20 hours in before I got bored.
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It's Rise of the Ronin hands down, not close, if you disagree you either didn't play it or are mentally r-slurred.
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