PC gaming has natural ebbs and flows. There are years that absolutely blow me out of the water and ones that fade into the mists shortly after they're gone. Looking purely at new releases, I was starting to feel like 2024 might be the latter. There were some real standouts, like Metaphor: ReFantazio and Tactical Breach Wizards, but compared to the stacked year that was 2023—which included Baldur's Gate 3, Jagged Alliance 3, and Against the Storm—it didn't quite match up for me.
That is, until I started looking at what I'd actually spent most of my time playing last year. It was mostly games from pre-2024 that had gotten DLC or other big updates. And man, those updates taken together really tell the story of a year to remember.
