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alexissara · 6 months ago

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Top 10 Games Of The Year 2024

It's time to look back at this years games I played and go what are the best this year? I would say on the whole this year was worse for games both on the industry level but also in terms of the quality of releases but luckily this list isn't about that but the games I personally played so they could be from any year. 2024 saw tons of industry layoffs, tons of game delays, tons of game cancellations and a lot of strife in general. Still, the art form was still arting and I want to share my feelings on this art. I played over 150 games counting demos this year in my hunt for Sapphic games to share with people here and across the internet although many of those were demos or otherwise incomplete games.

I will not be including Early Access games on this list since they are not done and therefore I don’t think can really qualify for being compared with the rest of the games. Still, I want to mention Elemental Survivors, Hades 2, and Fields of Mistria all of which were some of the most fun I had playing games this year but are all experiences I intentional cut myself off from because I don’t want to hit content walls and shit. To that effect I am not including game demos or incomplete fan games or whatever so a game like Pokemon Odyssey or the updated Gales of Nayeli Demo couldn’t show up here even if they were both also fun experiences since I want to compare a full experience of a piece of art [I don’t think you need to beat a game to experience it enough to talk about it but here I want to have explored to my satisfaction].

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10. Kitsune Tails

Mild spoiler but there is a second campaign of the game after you “beat” the game and that really elevates this game from what felt a bit like a slog to me to an exciting platformer. The game sells itself as a lesbian platformer but you know minor spoiler the first character has like an acearo arc which is nice representation although when I came in thinking I was gonna be getting a poly lesbian arc I was a let down. There is still lesbians and bi women and stuff so we do have good sapphic representation I was just during the time of the plot really not sure how to feel. Still despite that bit of jarring plot and I think a slow start to the game I really liked the way the game flows with it’s second protagonist, her movement is just a lot more fun and smooth rather than the kinda boring tride and true Super Mario World formula of the first protag. I am not the biggest platformer head, I played tons of them but these kinda classic games aren’t my favorite so it’s not “made for me” in that sense and I often found it a little too annoyingly hard for my taste but luckily the easy mode makes the game very playable for someone who just wants to do the plot and have fun on any given level without worrying too much about platforming.

9. Dragon Age: The Veilguard

I kinda don’t like this game yet I can’t lie the Sierra Laider, my rook took up so much of my brain space for so long it would be a lie to not put this game somewhere even if I did the heavy lifting for the game. In basically every area but the core combat loop the game is flawed and Combat suffers from repeated enemies and stuff like that. Yet, the game would have been an excellent First shot by a new team trying a new fantasy game series. And while this was a fantasy game it was blessed and cursed with the dragon age name which I think hurts this game more than it helps because while certainty engaged the lore in so many places It discards things or ignores them and it feels lkke death by 1000 papercuts. Umm i played it a lot and you can be trans [but not a lesbian you can never talk about that] so I do love those things. The hair looks Great. Welcome to the top 10.

8. Pokemon Emerald Rouge 2.0

So this game was technically on the list last year but it got a 2.0 version in 2024 and it was an amazing glow up for the game that was already good enough to be in a game of the year list and managed to show up twice. There was just so many improvements to this game, the overall hub was massively improved, the experience of getting pokemon was improved, runs are fast and fun with a massive roster of pokemon to capture, you can give your pokemon Herbal Remedy Tea [HRT] to change their gender, you have so many different challenge runs you can do and it feels like you can always shoot for better and stronger runs. It’s just a really great game that has more flavor to me than any other attempt at Pokemon Rouge Likes I’ve played so far. If you enjoy Pokemon battles and collecting pokemon then this game is perfect.

7. Fire Emblem: The Marrow’s Golden Country

There is a lot of little things in this game that erk me but overall I can’t deny that this is one of the best Fire Emblem games ever made, one of the best SRPGs, etc even if I don’t love every design choice in this game. I didn’t enjoy being made to change parties for multiple maps with no option to skip, I didn’t like this forced death map near the end of one of those maps where I crushed the high difficulty enemies with my tactics turn after turn after turn just doing totally fine and turns out oh you just have to lose not because I got ran out fast enough but because I just realized oh I got like everyone to max level killing these guys again and again. I also find the second male lord the game adds to the party to be annoying an unneeded and it really felt like it was there cuz idk Sacred Stones has two lords or something cuz Zeke doesn’t really add much to the plot where Blair is clearly the star here. Final complaint is that there is secret lesbian poly route I wanted to unlock but I had done exactly 1 support with a guy with Blair and that meant I simply couldn’t unlock it, there was no way to remove the support, just one time accidentally talking to a man once removed the option for CLair to have her 5 girlfriends. It was a really feels bad moment and it’s something I realized in the last chunk of the game making for a really awful feels moment. That said I mean there is a fucking secret lesbian poly route in this game with the main lord and that’s fucking amazing. The ability and map design in this game is fantastic and we really get a lot of fun takes on the Fire Emblem formula though the playthough. The plot itself is up and down in quality but it’s overall a fun story with some great characters I really loved. If you like Fire Emblem you should play THe Marrow’s Golden Country, it lacks some of the modern QoL i’d really like to see but you know use save states and it’s kinda like having turn wheel. While I said a lot of negative stuff it’s more like the disclaimers because everything else is just really great, it’s firmly in my top 10 FE games and it might just be in my top 10 SRPGs.

6. Saints Row Reboot

When the Saint’s Row Reboot came out people hated on it but I was cautiously optimistic yet I refused to download epic so with the game finally coming to steam and going on sale I went ahead and finally grabbed it. I honestly really loved this game and I don’t really get why people were haters outside of the racists who I understand were mad that the default protag was a black woman instead of a white man in this game you can do character creation with and the canon queer cast of saints row had a pride flag in their home unlike the previous canon queer cast which simply didn’t have a pride flag? Regardless, I think the gameplay is fun, maybe it’s because I don’t play Triple A games but for me I wasn’t like “Oh it’s another open world game” it felt like I as playing a saints row game which are open world so it was just another one of those. I thought the cast was actually super charming and fun, they were cute and had a great friendship dynamic. There was a fun payoff for playing in co-op mode too near the end of the game you get some special lines for playing in co-op where it was normally ignored. It’s a crime that this studio was shut down I would have loved to see where the next Saints Row went but at least this game is a banger.

5. Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising

I genuinely think this is a contender for best fighting game of all time it has a lot of little issues but this game is also kind of top of the line in almost every single area. While the plot is…not great and centers the male protag gran rather than allowing the female protagonist to be an equal to him in the plot it still has a story and the story mode allowing you to fight generic enemies and play in co-op is a really fun single player mode and having plot at all is nice even if it’s mid AF. Then all the arcade modes have nice little ending arts, there is the side modes, there is a lot to do other than just going online and climbing later which is great and something really every fighting game needs. The visual presentation makes for one of the best looking video games of all time and the voice work certainly is the very best in all fighting games by a long shot. This games cast has the ideal 50/50 gender ratio for a mixed gender fighting game always presenting men and women in equal amounts rather then just throwing a few women in and feeling fine with them being the “sexy” roles every gets to full be their own weird character.This game also has multiple instances of canon queer representation with multiple trans women, a lesbian and a non playable bisexual boss woman. Among the other subtexter characters. It be hard for a better fighting game to be made.

4. Tales of Berseria

A sadly common case of a fantastic game held back by a terrible ending yet Velvet and Magliou are both still such great characters that it elevated it to the upper half of this list. The gameplay of this Tales Of Game is also really great with the party feeling really good together and the action RPG combat feeling just really solid and smooth to use. As often happens in these Tales Of games some of the Sketches are really bad and you can feel the old japanese man writing the story take over the mouths of all the characters so everyone can hear their feelings about how men and women are. It feels super unnatural and actively makes the characters worse where some sketches feel great and add more context, it’s this cat box of if I open this i may be annoyed or I may be delighted but it’s just not consistent enough to know. Despite the random little flaws I liked all the characters in the cast, I had a lot of fun with each character and I wish for them to all have better fates then being stuck in a prequel game that required a status quo to be reached.

3. Vampire Survivors

This has become my go to “stiming” game, when I just need something to play with almost no thought while I am chatting or working or something, this is a perfect game to just have my hands doing something while I work. The Ode To Castalvina DLC is brilliant, expansive and fun and fills the game with amazing music. With that amd their 2 non IP DLCs along with the core game I've loaded with things to do while also having fun things to do to unlock a large chunk of the roster though there is definitely stuff I did and will use codes to unlock if they sound boring. Even the built in cheat code system really does improve this game though it really let's the player set their own fun and way more games need to bring it back.

2. Potionomics When I first played Potionomics when it released I really felt like the game needed voice acting and then sure enough this year it got it and I finally decided to beat this game with all of it’s fancy new features. The voice acting, cozy mode and polyamory took this from a good game to one of the best games ever made. This is truly a polished masterpiece and a true showing of the love of the devs to make their game so much better and for free for PC players too since they thought this was stuff the players who bought it before deserved to have. I did eventually hit a point where I stopped wanting to make potions and just wanted to do plot in my cozy mode run but luckily I was pretty capable of doing that since I had so much extra money.

1. Sword Of The Necromancer Sword of The Necromancer really blew me away and easily became one of my favorite games of all time after finishing it this year. An unbury your gays adventure where a woman does everything for the love of her life. I just really love everything about this game, the art style is really great, the voice acting is really solid, the animated opening is fantastic, and the music is great too. I really like being able to summon the little guys with the necromancer sword and have them fight for me, I am a big summoner enjoyer so I enjoyed that part of the gameplay and the combat being fairly simple was nice for me. I beat the game in about 9 hours of gameplay so it’s not super long just a nice lesbian adventure and honestly, I suck at games so it might be extended by my own deaths and stuff. I don't want to wax on forever so read my review [https://www.tumblr.com/alexissara/750871073687535616/sword-of-the-necromancer-review] for more.

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