The notable releases of 2024 across PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC — and, for each one, what to play if you liked it.
The list below is pulled live rather than frozen at the end of 2024, so late releases, remasters and ports that arrived afterwards are included.
Ranked year lists mostly measure attention. A game that shipped in March has had nine months of word of mouth; one that shipped in November has had three weeks, and the ranking reflects that more than it reflects quality.
The more useful question is which of the year's releases matches something you already know you like. That is what the rest of this site is for: every game we cover has a page of hand-written recommendations with the reason for each pick.
Or browse every game we cover, pick by genre from the genre guides, or see the hand-written best-games lists by era, audience and mood.
Release data is pulled live from a third-party games database when you open the page. We do not rank it by review score, and there are no scores anywhere on this site.
Smaller and regional releases are often added to the upstream database late. If something is missing here it is usually missing there.
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