Game The Best Reviewed Games of 2024

2023 is a tough act to follow. IGN awarded 83 games a ulasan score of 8 or higher last year, including five 10s — among which were two generational greats in Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. A year later, the release calendar looks comparatively light, with Switch all but certainly in its final year as Nintendo’s primary console and Sony not releasing “any new major existing franchise titles” until 2025.

Despite the relative slot server thailand super gacor sparsity, 2024 is not without its critical and commercial successes so far — Helldivers 2, Hades 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Dragon’s Dogma 2, to name a few — with dozens of high-potential games still to come, including Star Wars Outlaws and Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree.

With Q1 officially behind us, we’ve compiled an ongoing list of every game and expansion released in 2024 that received a ulasan score of 8 or higher from IGN. These are the 35 best-reviewed games of 2024 (so far).

Review Score: 8 (“Great”)
These games leave us with something outstanding to remember them by, usually novel gameplay ideas for single-player or multiplayer, clever characters and writing, noteworthy graphics and sound, or some combination thereof. If we have major complaints, there are more than enough excellent qualities to cancel them out.

Another Crab’s Treasure

From our ulasan: Another Crab’s Treasure is one of my favorite soulslikes in quite some time. It borrows a lot from the usual genre playbook, but adds a colorful, irresistibly charming, and wholly unique veneer that makes it all feel brand spanking new. The story is well-written and filled with memorable moments and characters, the shell-swapping mechanic is unique and adorable as heck, and the unrelentingly cheerful mood is like finding land after years adrift in an angsty sea of Bloodborne imitators. Its combat isn’t the deepest ocean around and it has a bit of jank here and there, but Another Crab’s Treasure is so clever and wonderfully ridiculous that it’s absolutely worth your time. – Travis Northup

Botany Manor
From our ulasan: Clever clues entwine with Botany Manor’s charming old English setting to make a lighthearted first-person puzzler worth tending to. Figuring out how to grow its fantastical plants kept me on my toes, and the blossoming flora painting onto the pages of my herbarium with bright colors gave me a comforting sense of achievement. I was more invested in deciphering its puzzles than I was reading the notes and letters that make up its fairly one-note story, but the variety of surreal seeds with unique traits in each new zona gave an exciting cadence to the somewhat repetitive act of tracking down clues. Botany Manor is a laid-back game that doesn’t ask you to do too much, simply grow some strange plants and decompress – and sometimes that’s exactly what you need. – Saniya Ahmed