Ranking the 45 Games I Finished in 2024

Hello everyone and welcome to this 2024 Games Tier List / Gaming Year in Review? Honestly I just wanted an excuse to talk about all the games that I finished this year, both on the channel and outside of it! Obviously not all of these games were released this year, they're just the ones I happened to play! Please don't take any of these rankings seriously 😆
I don't do this kind of video often so let me know if you enjoy these! Can make it a bit of a yearly tradition on the channel~
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[@ShmuPixel]

The Ministry of Information is pleased with your tier list. Your family has been granted a week of free heating for the occasion. A fellow citizen named Jorji says hi. Glory to Arstotzka!

[@LukaelPlays]

Oh man, what a relief! I mean, erhh..... Glory to Arstotzka!

[@Stix_01]

45 games in 1 year? I've only finished one this year .

[@LukaelPlays]

What was the lucky winner?

[@Stix_01]

@@LukaelPlays below zero 😆

[@joaquinbaume1291]

so glad you enjoyed Disco Elysium, my favourite game along with Outer Wilds and Rain World

[@yasminem8343]

A perfect video to sit back by a fire and watch boba to. Thanks Lukael for all the joy you've brought to us over the years. Cheers and happy holidays!

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you guys for supporting me and watching my silly videos! 😌

[@gimpscam9976]

I love the editing you do for all your videos! It adds a lot of involvement on our part imo, can’t miss an edit or id have to go back!

[@LukaelPlays]

I really appreciate you noticing it, because it's very time-consuming work that I sometimes feel like maybe nobody really notices it 😅 glad you do!

[@gimpscam9976]

Disco got me into your channel as it has countless others. I’m thankful for the game and I’m thankful for finding you!

[@LukaelPlays]

Thankful you found me! 😄

[@Punchindrunken]

I've really been enjoying your playthroughs. If you haven't had Slay the Princess recommended, you should consider it, it's a visual novel I think might be up your alley. Thanks for the vids, and hope you have a great 2025!

[@LukaelPlays]

I've had it mentioned a few times in my comments, will have to check it out at some point! Thank you and a great 2025 to you too! :)

[@sixstring68]

Merry Christmas Lukael!

[@LukaelPlays]

to you as well! 😊

[@alphasixty1316]

I have found Satisfactory to be perfectly satisfactory this year.

[@LukaelPlays]

Good friend of mine has also been playing THOUSANDS of hours of Satisfactory! Seems like people who get into it REAAALLY get into it lol

[@AnankeQ]

​@LukaelPlays factory games are all like that i think. I have been playing a lot of both Dyson Sphere Program and Shapez 2 lately

[@TPHRyan]

​@@LukaelPlaysa satisfying game, I find it very satisfying

[@Falkayy]

This was really fun to watch! I do love these videos where you chat with us, would love for you to do another q&a at some point next year, maybe when you hit 5k? I haven't played that many games this year, but did have a lot of fun with Stray and Outer Wilds which I tried for the first time, and played Hogwarts Legacy too cause I love Harry Potter. Pretty intrigued by Papers, Please after hearing you talk about it so will definitely try that out soon! Merry Christmas to you ^^

[@LukaelPlays]

Indeed planning another Q&A once I reach 5k! should be around February or March if things stay as they are. You can't miss with Stray and Outer Wilds, two of my favorites EVER! I think Papers Please is fantastic, though I could see some people finding it a bit stressful since you're timed, but consider taking notes to make things easier for yourself! I hope you'll have fun with it. Merry Christmas! :)

[@Milad.Sookhakian]

Merry Christmas, Thanks for the Video. helped me find some new games to play

[@LukaelPlays]

Awesome to hear! merry Christmas 😌

[@Ceres603]

Merry X'mas! This was a fun watch, definitely adding a few of these games to my queue. Looking forward to the movies list! My top 3, in no particular order: Disco Elysium - self-explanatory, it was the best timing that you started releasing your playthrough soon after I was done. It became a real extension to my experience. Chants of Sennaar - incredibly fun puzzle game centered around deciphering different languages. Very addictive gameplay with just the right level of difficulty. Awesome world-building, and the art style is so good too. The feeling of exploration and uncovering the unknown was very similar to Tunic, even though they're so different. One of my top puzzle games of all time because not only is the gameplay super fun, there is also a whole world and story behind it that you discover. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - You play as a ghost who tries to figure out how he died through cool puzzle mechanics and charming storytelling. The story and characters for this one were unexpectedly really amazing. Being that it is a remastered game, the art and music brings back the nostalgic feeling of old school games while still being polished and unique, standing the test of time. An overall very special game strong in both gameplay and narrative, and there's no other game like it.

[@LukaelPlays]

It seems like we have some very similar tastes in games! Chants of Sennaar and Ghost Trick are both in my to-do list, in fact they may appear on the channel sooner rather than later! 😁 I hope you'll enjoy some of the games you found through my list! Happy holidays to you!

[@Technoelcor]

Thank you for this ranking, it was interesting to hear your opinion on all of these games. It was also a bit funny to hear how you apologize all the time :D they're just games! (: I was kinda surprised to see your ranking of Subnautica, it's easily in top-5 games of all time for me (: but I understand that it's very subjective. Unfortunately I barely played any new games this year due to some RL issues. From the ones I replayed I would definitely name "The Long Dark" and "House Flipper 2" as my top choices.

[@LukaelPlays]

Eheh I guess that's the Canadian in me 😆 I know some people take this kinda stuff very seriously so I always worry I'm gonna upset people with my silly opinions. Both games you mention look quite fun! Here's hoping you get a chance to play lots more in 2025!

[@ZacChilds]

13:37 Overlord! That's an anime that is kind of hard for me to say is good, but is one that I really like. It's a pretty standard vrmmo isekai concept. Guy is hanging out in his guild on the last day before the servers are shut down, but instead of being kicked off the server, the guild is sent to a fantasy world. All of the guilds npcs come alive and now this guy is living as his max level character with all of his guild resources in a new unfamiliar world. There's some of the expected incel gamer stuff like every female character is now madly in love with him, but the world building and story are very interesting. Definitely worth checking out if you don't mind a bit of isekai slop.

[@LukaelPlays]

I see! That's the impression I got from playing the Picross game, I did go through some of the scenes and dialogues, but when I saw it was moreso meant for someone already familiar with the world, I kinda skipped the rest. Still not sure why they picked Overlord of all animes to crossover into a Picross game 😆

[@ZacChilds]

I'm 30 seconds into the game and they've already brushed past 3 seasons of the show, it's definitely meant for someone caught up with it.

[@lucasmoyse9505]

you really should play what remains of Edith finch please!!!!

[@LukaelPlays]

On the list!

[@CrystalClear5617]

Merry Christmas mate 💜

[@LukaelPlays]

You as well! 😌

[@snakebyte036]

This was fun, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. I'm looking forward to the movie rankings as well. I'm sure it'll put some good ones on my radar since I'm not a big movie watcher. Top 5 games I played this year: 1) Rain World: Downpour, 2) Animal Well, 3) 1000xRESIST, 4) Rise of the Golden Idol, 5) Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. I hope you get to some of them on the channel next year. :)

[@LukaelPlays]

That sounds like a really excellent top 5! Heard nothing but great things about Rain World and Animal Well, they're on my to do list indeed! So are Golden Idol and Shadow of Erdtree! Haven't heard much about 1000xResist, do you think it's a game that would work for a Let's Play?

[@snakebyte036]

@LukaelPlays I think so. It's along the lines of Firewatch and the Telltale games. The story is one of the best I've ever experienced in a game, it has good voice acting and very cool artsy direction, and overall it's just a really unique and fresh experience. It seems like it's flown under a lot of people's radar, so I have no idea how well it would do on the channel, but I highly recommend it even if you don't end up recording it.

[@J.RomeroLuna]

Hello! I didn't play a lot of games this year but I discovered some of my all time favorites. I played and finished 11 games (...and some recurring multiplayer like Dee Rock Galactic and Rocket League), in order of my personal "liking" system from 1 to 100: 1: Disco Elysium 93 2: Control 92 3: Tunic 91 4: Spiritfarer 91 5: It Takes Two 90 6: Teardown 90 7: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 86 8: Uncharted 4 85 9: Ace Combat 7 84 10: Omno 83 11: Hue 83 My all time faves are: 1: Outer Wilds 98 2: Okami 96 3: Metal Gear Solid 3 95 4: God of War Ragnarok 95 5: What Rem. of Edith Finch 94 Do you by any chance have a list of your all-time favorite games? I would love to know at least your top 5. Happy Holidays! PS: If you haven't already played it, please consider Spiritfarer, one of the most emotional games I've ever played!! PPS: since you said you watched more movies than whatever our guess would be, I'm gonna say 96, I'll be extremely surprised if you went over a hundred tho

[@J.RomeroLuna]

Okami being my favorite game for over 15 years (until I played Outer Wilds mind you) I was going absolutely INSANE at the game awards announcement for the sequel, I still cannot believe it

[@LukaelPlays]

A lot of games in the 80-90s, you're generous with your scores 😁 Disco Elysium deserves that top spot for sure! It Takes Two is also fantastic, loved playing that with my girlfriend! I played quite a bit of Spiritfarer and enjoyed it, but I never finished it! Oh man, it would be hard to pick a top 5, I do have a top 30 somewhere in my community posts on the channel, you can try to find it! Top 5 off the top of my head maybe, Outer Wilds, Shadow of the Colossus, Gravity Rush, Final Fantasy X, Hollow Knight? something like that! Good guess with the 96 movies, it's actually around DOUBLE that, I watched 184! 😄 Oh man you must have been so happy about that Okami sequel announcement! I played it for a bit a looong time ago but I can't remember if I finished it... Happy holidays!

[@J.RomeroLuna]

@@LukaelPlays HO-LY!! 184 movies with over 40 finished games? The maths ain't mathing for me on this one lmao And yeah I tend to be kind of a conformist with games, I overlook what other people might see as flaws, those usually don't impact my enjoyment of the game

[@shishmisha]

Great video, i know it took long to make but it was worth it, would watch again next year :) As for my top games, I'm a kind of slump this year, i just keep trying games, and nothing sticks. The only thing I think i played all the way through was Shadow of the Erdtree, and it's not even a separate game, even though it's as big and as amazing as one. Had my favorite boss fight ever in Mesmer. And exploration was perfect, same as the main game. So that's the only one i can wholeheartedly say I loved this year.

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you Miša, glad you enjoyed! Still haven't gotten around to Shadow of Erdtree, maybe in 2025! I'm looking forward to it, my Elden Ring playthrough was a ton of fun!

[@shishmisha]

@LukaelPlays yeah, I saw it wasn’t on the channel so I guessed you didn’t get around to it. Would love to see it if you decide to play it here ☺️

[@jadestpc]

Merry Christmas! I wonder if you would like Grim Fandango. You play a grim reaper/travel agent in the afther life but it feels like a detective's kinda work because it's a puzzle game. It's a point and click game in four chapters where you have to move trough different areas, interacts with objects and caracters, to solve the puzzles of the chapters to get to the next chapter. The puzzles can be quite challenging some times. It's originally form 1998 and was remastered in recent years. The story is interesting with good caracters and great music. During a steam sale, you can get it for less than 10$ and a play trough is about 10 to 20 hours.

[@LukaelPlays]

It sounds pretty fun, I'll note it down!

[@TheSuperrespect13]

I love these types of unscripted videos!! Didn't know you played so many games I must say I am really curious can we have another one with top surprises or worst games? Or maybe some insight whats next on the agenda for 2025?? For me my biggest surprise this year was infinity nikki (unfortunately a gatcha game),...never thought I was going to play something like it but so far its pretty nice but yeah I have to agree with you I personally like small compact games like Deaths door and more recently for me The Pathless. Glad to see that not many ended up in the meh or bad category!

[@LukaelPlays]

Biggest surprises? Hrmm well I did end up loving Papers Please, Triangle Strategy, and Disco Elysium more than I thought I would! For worst games, it's hard to say, I never really finish games I don't like, so I can't remember which were the worst ones. Most of em were pretty good! Infinity Nikki looks very polished, seeing a lot of people get into it, so I can see someone getting surprisingly into it! just a shame that it's gacha, these games would be so much better without it

[@noelsanaka]

@1:06:37 i didnt watch your deathdoors playthrough, but i personally played it because people said it was like tunic. I found it wasnt anything like it, and i strongly feel that its almost entire focus on combat makes it not a very watchable game.

[@LukaelPlays]

I can see people saying they are alike just because they're both isometric adventure games with a similar combat style, but they do have a lot of differences. I agree that it wasn't the most Let's Play worthy game, but ah well lol

[@realnarwhal]

wait Echoes of the Eye wasn't this year?? Wow! Time really does fly 😅

[@LukaelPlays]

Nope, that one was 2 years ago 😄 doesn't feel that long!

[@chekote]

I wouldn’t worry so much about comparing games. You’d need a much finer rating scale to do that. It’s enough to decide how you felt about each.

[@jufliii]

As a big fan of making lists myself I thoroughly enjoyed this! I usually only play couple of games a year on my switch, I prefer watching LPs, haha. I played Persona 5 Royal and Two Point Campus the most (first time playing both, had a lot of fun) and I played Disco Elysium which I did buy because of your LP! That game really is something else. Now just to finish it (and P5R) 🙏.

[@LukaelPlays]

Thank you! Persona 5 is legendary, and will keep someone busy for a very long time that's for sure lol That's awesome that you got Disco Elysium because of me! 😄 I hope you're enjoying it as much as I did!

[@jufliii]

@@LukaelPlays Yes, I'm loving DE! I've played 30 hours of it in one week and now I need a break before finishing it haha.

[@LindaTheGAMERGal]

GG on the games you finished for 2024.

[@Vekuyo]

I completely missed your Tears playthrough. Avoided it on release while I was playing through myself and by the time I finished the game completely forgot.

[@LukaelPlays]

Never too late to check it out! 😁

[@IamtheLexx]

I wasn't sure if I should try Tunic or not, but now I might!

[@AnankeQ]

I would love to see your choices in playing Cyberpunk, but it does also tend to be one that brings in the backseaters. Lol

[@LukaelPlays]

I'd like to do Cyberpunk eventually! I might need to upgrade my PC before I can do so though lol and it's a pretty long one I think so will need a good amount of time to get through it. Hopefully I can find someone to screen some of the comments for me to avoid major spoilers

[@chekote]

You have a whole discord server full of friends that love to play games online! I’m sure they’d be stoked if you played Helldivers 2 with them.

[@LukaelPlays]

I do?? What discord server is that? 😮

[@Meta_Mage]

If you like tactics games, I'd highly recommend Unicorn Overlord. Sadly only available on PS5 and switch.

[@LukaelPlays]

That one looks great! Will try to give it a shot in the future definitely

[@MasterNinjaTeddyBear]

i didn't see a recap for last year and was wondering where Inscryption stood for you. Good to see Subnautica was in excellent and sorry for any back seating. Pdas can be say to miss in that game

[@LukaelPlays]

Inscryption would definitely be way up in my list, that game was fantastic in every way!

[@paulunga]

Yeah, I also don't understand why P3R isn't the "ultimate" version of P3. They really did Fem MC dirty.

[@LukaelPlays]

😔

[@JaiJansen]

Im REALLY bad at finishing games because i get destracted by another game at some point. One of the best games ive ever played is Octopath Traveler 2 and even that i did not completely finish... but thats just me it takes nothing away from the games. The TWO games ive finished this year were Monster Sanctuary and Astrlibra. I now hope to finish Grandblue Fantasy: Relink and Cyberpunk wich i just started.

[@LukaelPlays]

Haven't tried OT2 but I did finish the first one, and it did get quite repetitive over time so I can see someone not finishing it... Cyberpunk and Relink are both on my to do list!

[@JaiJansen]

@@LukaelPlays i grew up in the SNES era and i grew up playing RPG's and JRPG's so Octopath Traveler 2 was a game to my heart. I never saw it as repetitive. I had 60+ hours in to it and close to finishing. I also like buying random games on sale. I never heard of Octopath Traveler before... just like Astlibra and Monster Sanctuary.

[@axelplate9080]

45 game sis a lot. almost one game each week. A diverse collection. Have you ever played Ori and the blind forest? Which games are you looking forward to in 2025?

[@LukaelPlays]

It helps that some of them were quite short! But also getting to play games on the channel (and having to finish them) helps too. I did play Ori and the Blind Forest, but I haven't tried the sequel yet! I'm definitely looking forward to Monster Hunter Wilds, Clair Obscur, Borderlands 4, the new Professor Layton, Skate Story, and of course Silksong if that ever comes out lol

[@chekote]

I’m a huge Metroid fan and I didn’t care for Metroid dread either. If you want to see whether you like the 2-D games, I recommend playing the super Nintendo Metroid.

[@LukaelPlays]

I think I did a looong time ago, maybe I should give it another shot sometime

[@sortingoutmyclothes8131]

I can't find the ranking videos from previous years, are they made private?

[@sortingoutmyclothes8131]

Oh, wait I just checked and you say that you didn't make those videos 😭. Are the lists you showed on screen in order of best to worst?

[@LukaelPlays]

This is my first time making this kind of video! and no no, the lists I showed for previous years were in order of completion, not any kind of ranking 😆

[@proxxit3896]

i started many but completed like 4

[@kainie85]

top 3: indiana jones, space marines 2 and balatro

[@LukaelPlays]

Heard good things about those!

[@ZwiekszoneRyzyko]

IMHO there should be the UltraExceptional tier above all the others and Disco Elysium should be the only game there.

[@LukaelPlays]

Well I did put it in my highest tier 😆

[@mephistophelicpierogi]

Damn it. I accidentally refreshed the browser and lost a long comment again. Um let's try to redo this real quick, so I can get where I left off. I only got like 20% through your Tears of the Kingdom playthrough. There is something about the game I don't like that I cannot easily figure out. I mean it has the same overall design of any other Zelda game, so I think all it could be is the art style. I can't really justify it, because it doesn't look bad, but it could just be that I never got into East Asian culture, be it Japanese, Chinese, Korean. Never played Final Fantasy, watched dragonball Z, etc. Now I do like the area from an academic, historical perspective, including architecture. And when I was young some of their religions spoke more to what I called my spiritualism than anything the west came up with. Maybe it's just that I unconsciously associate it with the first person who broke my heart and the games we played together back then. But you know, I only ever played 3 games from the franchise, 1 to completion, so it's never been a favorite for me, despite having had a lot of fun with it. Subnautica is a fun and popular game, but exceptional? No way. It's kind of a one and done once you know the plot, because it doesn't stand on its own as a combat, survival, or crafting game. Except for the tech upgrades following the plot. But after your first playthrough you know exactly where to go. And since these things are even weaker in BZ, that is even more of a one and done. I actually tried to play a second time, on hardcore for once, when you were getting near the end of your playthrough. I didn't finish, because it's just not that engaging/ rewarding. Pleased to see Dave the Diver under the Excellent category. I take the ranking of games named after me PERSONALLY. God damnit, did you really have to play the heartbreak song while talking about Disco? I am barely hanging on here. Not really, but damn it. I am glad you enjoyed the game, because my other favorite content creators just did not get into it. I'm glad you put this video up, no one else I follow has uploaded anything since Saturday. I have never been much of a holiday celebrator myself, but this is the first year I have not had anyone to be around. Feeling kind of restless, so it is good to have a little distraction like this. As I've said elsewhere, once I got into arboriculture 4 years ago, my gaming stopped, due to mental and physical exhaustion. I am curious if Steam says I played anything this year. Doesn't look like it. In 2023 there are a couple games that I put less than 10 hours into. Long Dark, Shipbreaker, TW Shogun 2. In the past four years the only games I played all the way through were Astroneer, and Survival Fountain of Youth. Besides games that you also covered on the channel, and there probably was a Fallout 4 run or two in there. Doing YOLO was fkcn amazing. I suppose that games I really love just take too much time to really get going in, but games that are short just don't grab me all that well. I am more likely to put 1000+ hours into ten games, than 100 hours into 100 games. Right well. Catch you later this week, enjoy the holiday. :)

[@LukaelPlays]

I find it interesting that you have multiple potential reasons why you didn't get into TotK, you seem like a very introspective person, but truth is sometimes we just don't vibe with a game for whatever reason 🤷 It's clearly an incredible game from a design and artistic standpoint but that doesn't mean everyone will get into it! I was sorta hesitant to even upload anything for Christmas and New Year since a lot of people will be busy, but I also know that a lot of people sometimes spend that time alone and can use the distraction, so I'm glad to hear that was the case here for you. I get what you mean about spending LOTS of time into a few games, rather than a lot, I have a friend who's very much like that! His year just consists of hundreds or thousands of hours in the same 2-3 games as usual, plus a few more attempts at others on the side. I think I gravitate toward shorter games a bit more, because completing them gives me that illusion that I actually accomplished something or made progress somehow. Towards what, I don't really know. Have a good one, DAVE! 😄