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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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lad iw
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Other -
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Where's planet crafter?
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I nominate
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No contest
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Where is Factorio space age? Rigged
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Ban anyone who doesn't vote balatro
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I voted balatro because it's the only one I played.
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NCAA25
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To literally all the Concs out there like just remember you are stealing from literally still living queer and brown people of development when you dont vote for your Veiliens like just to make a statement about Queer and Brown people of development that no longer exist, and History will not look back on you kindly
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Concord
Simply not being playable makes it 100x better.
Close down all DEI games everywhere!
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meme game aside if expansion is allowed then Space Age won hard
it is so good
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I've only played two 2024 games, I think. Dragon's Dogma 2, which was dog shit and Age of Mythology: Retold, which is totally awesome... but also just a straight remake of a game from 2002.
So Age of Mythology Retold wins by default!
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I haven't played any of these but some like Mullet Mad Jack and Felvidek look fun and I'll probably get them at some point.
Can't say the same for any of the big releases
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helldivers 2 and it ain't close
I've had so much fun with that game. If u got a couple fellas willing to dive, shit is a blast. Gunplay is rock fricking solid. Moment to moment action turns cinematic at the drop of a hat. Multi billion dollar cod campaigns have been less cinematic than some of the last stands in helldiverss.
Weapon variety is great. I love calling in air strikes and orbital bombardments.
I also enjoy the lil narrative they've got with super earth bravely defending itself against the perfidious alien. Hopefully they've got more cool shit in store this year.
Awesome game. Best in years probably.
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Where are Starfield and NCAA 25?
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zoz
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zle
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zozzle
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!besties
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We love our spergs, don't we folks?
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Only game released this year that I played was sneed Marine 2, so I guess that wins by default.
While they improved some mechanics like i-frames on execution (seriously, in 1 you could be locked into executing an ork - which is how you replenish health - and take damage and be killed while doing so, with nothing you can do against it). But i still find it a bit clunky and frustrating quite often. It should be closer to fromsoft titles in that regard imo.
The story was quite good, and it did a great job of visualising the universe, so I dont want to complain too much.
But since its not on the list I'm voting for concord. For me the GOTY because of the sneed it caused and the DEI-cide it heralded
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@HailVictory1776 played Signalis and thought it was a very good game with an interesting setting and atmosphere and then @HailVictory1776 went looking for some thoughts about what people thought about the themes only too find that it's yet another thing ruined by
s with awful fan art everywhere. The concept of "fandom" is fricking disgusting and everypony involved must be killed blue lives matter
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Facts tho
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Where do I vote for Satisfactory?
I don't think I played a single new game last year, tbh.
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Selaco
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@PillsburyDoughboy want too like selaco, and did at first, but then it frustrated the shit out of me. Maybe they fixed it with patches? The part where the power goes out and you're shooting guys in the dark and it's a big
Open space was so fricking annoying. Trans lives matter
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Git Gud
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Jak 3
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I added it to my wishlist. That's more than I can say about the other games in the list from OP
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average !truecels day
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He said while getting headpats from his gf
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Rogue Trader is my 2024 GOTY, strong contender for my 2020s GOTD (so far)
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Despite all the flops last year I played a lot of enjoyable games; Stellar Blade, Princess Peach Showtime, Unicorn Overlord, Stellar Blade, The First Descendant, Zau, ZZZ, heck I even enjoyed Star Wars outlaws. Kinda hard to choose game od the year between them.
I'm gonna give it to Eve.
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Where do I find more neurodivergent cult classics? I like Elona and Elin but they both broke into the mainstream, I imagine there are way more hidden gems out there I've never heard of.
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Idk, it really depends on how you count mainstream vs cult. Imo, Elin/ona are both pretty far from the mainstream, though they get a lot of airplay round here, while there's a lot of theoretically mainstream games which somehow seem to pass under the radar.
One of my best sources is the steam discovery queue, but it's probably not as useful for most people
Itch is theoretically interesting, but the crap to gold ratio is way off. Otherwise RockPaperZhotgun is pretty good, other review sites don't seem to bother with the indie scene.
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also move this to /h/vidya pls
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will do
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oh frick I mised elin
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I had to stop playing balatro, I really liked Mouthwashing, just played MiSide and it was good. Webfishing was super fun.
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half of that is
bait
how old were you again
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mouthwashing is good, but has a tumblr fanbase,
Webfishing is furry but was good because it came at a time when all my friends couldn't decide what game to play,
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Rogue Trader was finally finished this year, frick the rest
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neighbor what there are like six dlcs left
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Rogue Trader has the most superior DLC and thus should be counted twice
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I can't wait for Rogue Trader to be my 2027 GOTY as well
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"Meow"? Seriously? Wowwwww, you meow like a cat! That means you are one, right? Shut the frick up. If you really want to be put on a leash and treated like a domestic animal then that's called a fetish, not "quirky" or "cute". What part of you seriously thinks that any part of acting like a feline establishes a reputation of appreciation? Is it your lack of any defining aspect of personality that urges you to resort to shitty representations of cats to create an illusion of meaning in your worthless life? Wearing "cat ears" in the shape of headbands further notes the complete absence of human attribution to your false sense of personality, such as intelligence or charisma in any form or shape. Where do you think this mindset's gonna lead you? You think you're funny, random, quirky even? What makes you think that acting like a fricking cat will make a goddarn hyena laugh? I, personally, feel extremely sympathetic towards you as your only escape from the worthless thing you call your existence is to pretend to be an animal. But it's not a worthy choice to assert this horrifying fact as a dominant trait, mainly because personality traits require an initial personality to lay their foundation on. You're not worthy of anybody's time, so go frick off, "cat-girl".
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There's giant evil cats in Rogue Trader you can kill
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Path of Achra
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Have I mentioned Rogue Trader?
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UNI 2 mogs every game on that list.
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Rogue Trader mogs every game ever developed in human history
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I haven't played it yet but online multiplayer is appealing to me. I have 80 hours across nearly a dozen saves in PF2 and I've never made it past the second act
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in the least amount of players category maybe
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Pearls before swine.
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Poopy stinky smelly gaymers
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All other choices stink, Rogue Trader smells like citrus and lavender
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balatro and its not even close
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Rogue Trader and it's not even close
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Seven Cities of Gold
!oldstrags !genx
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Palworld is both actually good and upset a lot of people
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