The defining mood of this era of gaming is definitely FOMO.
Who's got the time to play all these games? You don't have to be a professional writer-about-games to feel it: we are bombarded by new releases and meaningful updates. Even years-old games stage meaningful comebacks.
The market isn't saturated, it's a broken dam flooding a landscape with more products than the world can collectively notice, buy, and play. By the end of the year, 12,000 new games will have released on Steam alone. And in parallel, there's a skyline of towering PC gaming fixtures that want to be played daily: Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, League of Legends, Apex Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, Dota 2, and on and on.
To give a little more daylight to games that we think deserve it, here's a handful we think you shouldn't go into 2024 without noticing.
