> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://aftermath.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Luke's Favourite Video Games Of 2024 - URL: https://aftermath.site/luke-plunkett-aftermath-game-of-the-year-2024/ - Published: 2025-01-15T22:06:50.000Z - Updated: 2025-10-27T17:09:51.000Z - Author: Luke Plunkett - Tags: Video Games, 2024, game of the year, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00 I played a lot of video games last year. Here are the ones I enjoyed the most. You might be thinking that mid-January in 2025 is awfully late to be sharing a list like this, especially since practically every other writer and site has done so already. But I have reasons! Firstly, I've been on vacation for three weeks. And secondly, I didn't want to post a list like this while the calendar still read "2024", because there are 365 days of video game releases in the year, and I wanted to give each and every single one of them a chance for its games to make the cut. In no particular order, then, here are my favourites, from the most expensive AAA release to the tiniest little game about a naughty dog. **Yakuza: Infinite Wealth** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/like-a-dragon-infinite-wealth-unlock-jobs-ichiban-1.png) A modern masterpiece. [The game so good](https://aftermath.site/like-a-dragon-infinite-wealth-spoilers-kazuma-kiryu-ending/) I [reviewed it twice](https://aftermath.site/infinite-wealth-ichiban-kasuga-friendship-review/). A single sprawling, joyous RPG that managed to simultaneously farewell an old hero and chart an exciting new course for the series. --- **Indiana Jones And The Great Circle** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/20241211183657_1-1.png) If it's not the greatest video game adaptation ever, it's certainly near the top, [so faithful it even paid attention to the *cinematography*](https://aftermath.site/indiana-jones-great-circle-douglas-slocombe-cinematography-cutscenes/). With its [laboured movement and devotion to the first-person perspective](https://aftermath.site/indiana-jones-great-circle-immersive-machinegames/) it felt as much like a new Indy movie as it did an Indy video game, and I mean both of those as the highest order of compliment. --- **Star Wars Outlaws** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/capture-w-710-5.png) [This was a great game, and some very good Star Wars](https://aftermath.site/star-wars-outlaws-review-impressions-update/). With a fun cast of characters, and an exploration of a side of the universe that mercifully didn't include Jedi, you'd be a moron to let the "discourse" surrounding this sour you on it. --- **Songs Of Silence** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/website_key_artwork_v03-scaled-1-w-710-1.png) One of the best-looking games of the year came out of absolutely nowhere to [not only stun my eyeballs, but strip a tiring Total War formula to the bone as well](https://aftermath.site/songs-of-silence-impressions-review/). --- **The Plucky Squire** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/ca60005af406836432549fa393822e97-w-710-1.png) With one eye on gaming's past and another on its future, [this puzzling quest oozed character and class](https://aftermath.site/plucky-squire-pc-switch-impressions/). --- **Caravan Sandwitch** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/20240922181333_1-w-710-1.png) Rarely a week has gone by where [I haven't thought about this game, its beautiful soundtrack and its cast of misfit characters](https://aftermath.site/caravan-sandwitch-impressions-review/). I had more fun in its small, fully-realised sandbox than worlds ten times--and ten times emptier--its size. --- **Wild Bastards** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/game-page-featured_wild-bastards-inits-w-710-1.png) Did you know I've never played *Balatro*? Because I know myself and my habits, and I know if I ever allowed myself to, I'd be in trouble. Did you know I'm also an idiot, because *Wild Bastards*\--with its quickfire missions and roguelite escapades--[stepped in and fucked me up for weeks all the same](https://aftermath.site/wild-bastards-blue-manchu-fps-impressions/). --- **Tactical Breach Wizards** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/tacticalbreachwizardsfeatured-w-710-1.png) [Turns out 2024's best tactics game was also 2024's funniest video game](https://aftermath.site/tactical-breach-wizards-pc-impressions/). And those are two of my favourite things. --- **Total War: Pharaoh** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/agamem-w-710-1.png) Talk about pulling it out of the fire! Creative Assembly released one of the worst Total Wars of all time in 2023, but just a few months later dropped all of its planned DLC at once and, [whaddya know, suddenly it was one of the best](https://aftermath.site/total-war-pharaoh-dynasties-impressions-release/). --- **Thank Goodness You're Here** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/tgyh-screenshot-02-tea-boi-interior-w-710-1.png) An outrageously [funny video game](https://aftermath.site/thank-goodness-youre-here-review/), animated and written and voiced all so wonderfully that even months on from release[ I'm still thinking about smoking fish, meat pies and Matt Berry](https://aftermath.site/thank-goodness-youre-here-impressions-north/). --- **Cataclismo** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/cls-w-710-1.png) A marriage of beautiful art, grisly monsters, fashionable soldiers and sandbox fortress building, this tower defence/RTS/city-builder hybrid came very close to being [the perfect video game](https://aftermath.site/cataclismo-impressions-rts-city-builder/). --- **Synergy** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/keyart_sy-w-710-1.png) It's not the best city-builder I've ever played, [but it's certainly the most interesting](https://aftermath.site/synergy-pc-city-builder-impressions-review-moebius/), and with its Moebius-inspired visuals also one of the downright *coolest*. --- **Galacticare** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/interaction-w-710-1.png) I don't know anybody else who played this, or even wrote about it, which is weird. It's a *Theme Hospital*\-style game that is, I think, better than many of its peers--*Two Point Hospital* included--[and is not only genuinely funny, but has a super smart interface to boot](https://aftermath.site/galacticare-review-impressions-pc-bullfrog-theme-hospital/). --- **Homeworld 3** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/20240523124616_1-w-710-1.png) I appreciate its attempt to try something slightly different, coming so many years after its predecessors, [but it fell short and so didn't *quite* hit the same highs](https://aftermath.site/homeworld-3-pc-review-impressions-blackbird-steam-rts/). Ah well! What's there was still great, [and it was lovely to see all those incredible little ships again](https://aftermath.site/homeworld-3-concept-art-making-of/). --- **Little Kitty Big City** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/catgame-w-710-1.png) Much like *Caravan Sandwitch*, it was another triumph for a bite-sized sandbox. I got to know every corner and shop in these city blocks, and gliding a cat around them doing dumb cat stuff was a blast. [There have been a few cat games released recently, but this is by far my favourite](https://aftermath.site/little-kitty-big-city-cat-game-impressions/). --- **Doronko Wanko** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/wanko-w-710-1.png) [I love this naughty little dog so much](https://aftermath.site/dorongo-wango-impressions-steam-pc-bandai-namco-pomeranian/) and I just wanted to see him make a GOTY list. --- **1000xRESIST** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/1000xresist-review-thumb-1717170865476-w-710-1.png) Stop the presses! As you might be able to tell from the lack of hyperlinks in this paragraph, this is the only game on this entire list I hadn't already written about on Aftermath because, well, I only just played it on my vacation. It takes a little while to get going, but once it starts getting comfortable with its party trick, *holy shit*. --- And that's it! Lots of good video games that I enjoyed very much! Thanks for all the good times!