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The 50 best games of 2024, ranked

Eurogamer's list of the 50 best video games of 2024, from Animal Well to Zelda.

Weaving your way through the sodden forests of the pacific northwest with nothing but a banged up, possibly-haunted jalopy and a grumpy radio accomplice you will find yourself crashed, mashed, flipped, hurled, shocked, poked and bonked by various obstacles, ranging from slightly horrifying 'anomalies' of the Zone to the car's boot lowering on your head - your own weaponised incompetence manifest. It slavishly hits every story beat, every iconic moment, except where there's room to surprise; dialogue is barely changed, yet stellar performances find new emotional depths; anticlimaxes are reworked into unforgettable crescendos; it brings clarity without ever losing its sense of mystery; and, brilliantly, it even cheekily canonises an age-old fan theory, allowing this new version of Silent Hill 2 to harmoniously coexist with the original along the same timeline. Within those environments, developer MachineGames has crafted a series of dense and deeply lived in spaces, giving players the tools to improvise multiple routes into tightly guarded areas, all manner of weapons and daft, everyday objects to clobber Indy's enemies with, as well as an entire museum's worth of brilliantly conceived mysteries, puzzles and sidequests to indulge in along the way.

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