2024 has been a strange one. If you look at what actually launched this year, it's a perfectly decent roster of games: Helldivers 2, Balatro, Dragon's Dogma 2, Shadow of the Erdtree, Sins of a Solar Empire 2, Stalker 2, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Path of Exile 2. Lots of good things in this list. A few of them even all-time greats. But for me, it overall felt pretty subdued. Boring, even. At least until this last part of the year, when we've enjoyed a run of interesting stuff.
This left me with plenty of time to delve back into my library of older games. Not much older, for the most part, but at least games that didn't come out in 2024.
