This year, which video games, music albums, films, novels or even comic strips delighted you the most? There were almost three times more of you to answer this question than in 2023 and, thanks to your votes and your testimonials, we were able to draw up a ranking of your favorites.
Approximately 20,000 games were published in 2024. A record. However, while some were developed by gigantic studios, the majority of them were designed by small players in the industry. For them, a single commercial failure is generally enough to force them to close their doors and disappear as quickly as they arrived.
In this context, failures are often spectacular and successes all the more miraculous. This is the case of that of Balatroan independent game developed by a Canadian who calls himself LocalThunk, and which almost no one had heard of a year ago. This delirious card game pretending to take up the rules of poker to better subvert them, not content with having delighted the hearts of journalists from Mondealso climbs to first place in the ranking of readers’ favorite games.
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Quite a symbol: in terms of number of votes, this title coming from nowhere even exceeds by a short head the last opus of the most aristocratic of video game series, The Legend of Zelda : Echoes of Wisdom.
Unanimously against “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6”
Astro Botwhich nevertheless won the prestigious game of the year prize at the Game Awards, by going hunting on the flowerbeds of Super Marioonly comes third. The rest of the top 10 follows suit, made up of big-budget remakes (Final Fantasy 7, Silent Hill 2, Mario & Luigi, Star Wars Outlaws…), as well as the – surprisingly delightful and impressive – sequel to Helldivers. In the middle of these heavyweights, two Lilliputians stand out, driven by the same confidence in the intelligence of the player: the first, The Rise of the Golden Idolasking him to understand what is happening, the second, Animal Wellto understand what to do.
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