sgf's top ten games of 2024

[@Jhessail]

Ooof SGF, too real in the opening. Thank you for letting us watch you play games, it's genuinely nice to be able to rely on your videos to pick me up through everything else.

[@JollyJa5on]

Here I am playing a nice relaxing game of Balatro, while listening to the calm dulcet tones of SuperGreatFrien. Imagine my suprise when he begins to speak directly to me, through the screen, as if he's right next to me watching. That was pretty wild, right Zach?

[@matronboy]

Happy New Year to the best person on youtube, you are always a constant companion throughout the year, I hope you are happy and healthy in 2026.

[@paper_maiden]

He really is the best person on this platform and website. For real.

[@oscar5226]

i've liked your videos for a while but i really started watching them in earnest this summer. your commentary was a lovely accompaniment to a year i spent mostly sitting at my desk and painting. thanks for doing what you do!

[@brobzoid]

Happy new year SGF and chat/commenters! 🥳

[@DrymouthCWW]

Thanks you for that

[@forestsavior]

Thank you, SGF, for another wonderful year streaming video games of highly variable fame, technical quality, and aesthetic merit. This year's stream was so packed, I forgot how many memetic games happened this very year: - Overblood (thank you, Pipo) - Firefighter F.D. 18 - Home Safety Hotline (long live our hero, the Junior Supervisor) - The skeleton from Orpheo's Curse - AitD 2024 (they finally made an OK one!...and then torpedoed the studio who made it) - Double helping of Code Veronica (Steve must continue to suffer) - The motherfuckin' Council - Cluefinders - Indika (but we got so many points!) - Seven Mansions (goony Schnider laugh) - Crow Country (how many Special Agents has SGF played as now?) - Shatmemz (CHERYL?) - RE: Dead Aim (Morpheus D. Duvall did nothing wrong) - Arctic Eggs (delicious tin-fried sardines with cigarettes and egg) ...and yes, unfortunately, Saw II: Flesh and Blood.

[@forestsavior]

Oh, right, and the ILLBLEED anti-penance (indulgence?) stream. What a delightful evening-and-very-early-morning that was.

[@varsoonhks3211]

Drake and the 99 minutes we'll never get back

[@MyOtheHedgeFox]

@@forestsavior Thank you for reminding me of the ILLBLEED stream! Haven't had the chance to see the VOD yet but I definitely should!

[@zersockpuppet]

Happy New Year, SGF. It's crazy that I have been with you for 14 years now, after finding your Deadly Premonition LP on SomethingAwful forums. Thank you for always being there for me when I needed a break from reality or a laugh.

[@PaleVoyager]

I used to LP in 2009-2012 and you were always an inspiration. I'm glad you are still making content.

[@rubenandthejets]

Been watching everything chronologically since 2013. I'm falling a bit behind, now at Disco Elysium. Thank you sgf, keep it coming! Happy new year everybody!

[@friend_xtra]

enjoy that one.

[@riichoux]

thank you for everything SGF, you were my top watched gaming creator according to yt recap and i hope next year will be full of bumbling thru great video games as well

[@mattafields]

I always love to hear you end of year opinions! Your recommendation should advertised on the game like, "Super Greatest Hits" the greatest honor a for a game to have. By the way I learned about a PS1 turn-based RPG called Linda³ (Linda Cubed) not too long ago , it has a fan English translation and seems pretty interesting. It seems strange so I thought you might enjoy it. Thank you for being a SuperGreatFrien and all the great times! I can't wait to see what 2025 brings us. Happy New Year!

[@MrFIRESEAL117]

Great list for 2024. I started watching your content back when you first streamed Illbleed. Here's to another great year of gaming.

[@varsoonhks3211]

Fantastic year for Video Games. Your top 10 is a very strong top 10, for sure. This year had SaGa Emerald Beyond AND Romancing SaGa 2 Remake, it was a good year. I also enjoyed Rise of Ronin and Unicorn Overlord.

[@OleskyFMArchives]

Thanks for everything, SGF

[@ZKvids-x5b]

Love you SFG! From my couch haven to yours, Happy New Year! May the view of the peripheral world brighten in time ❤

[@Anime_Guy-j4d]

i dunno my views pretty dim as well

[@NMGardening]

Happy new year to the best youtuber on the site! Your channel is my favorite, thanks for all the great content brother!

[@ShayleaChensu]

Thank you for another good year of videos, and happy you enjoyed so many super great games! Wishing you all the best for 2025 Mr SGF, and looking forward to more video games

[@PaulineRagny]

Incredible upset that has rattled everyone's predictions in chat at #2

[@RedWanderer1]

I may try 1000xResist. I knew about that game but I don't have too much tolerance for walking simulators. At most I play one of those per year. On the other hand, I really respect sgf taste on games. I usually pick one or two from his top 10 to play (void stranger comes to mind). This video has made me think on finally getting 1000X Resist.

[@rockguitarist8907]

I loved it!!!!

[@user-lx9tl3lc5f]

Yeah, I think I'll give that, El Paso, Elsewhere and Void Stranger a chance after this video.

[@KyleKov]

HI SGF! Miilion year twitch and youtube subscriber here. I'm the guy that's been begging you to play OFF (again, you tried it for an hour but you were really tired and had a bad time) for years now! It's being re-released in 2025 on PC and Switch with some degree of remastering! Won't you please give it another spin? I still love you, even if you don't. Thanks for giving us so much content in 2024.

[@Anime_Guy-j4d]

last year had a couple surprises for me, looking foward to this years countdown, thanks for being here SGF happy new year!

[@BioDissonance]

Thanks for being our super great friend from a distance. In your own home, while I watch from inside mine own. Here’s hoping you’ll do a run of the remake of the Thing. Regardless, all the best gaming in this new year.

[@raticus79]

Welonz did a nice playthrough of 1000xResist with a bit of extra cultural commentary. (I'd recommend her for any SGF fans, similar laid-back style)

[@rockguitarist8907]

“1000x Resist” and “Until Then” were my favorite games this yr. Very diff, but very solid stories.

[@Scarwing]

Nine Sols is definitely my #1 of the year. That game is so good. The final boss is such a mountain of difficulty to climb, that I came out the other side with new skills I didn't even know I had. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes is also the best pure puzzle game I've ever played. Sooo satisfying. The ending puzzle is a bit of a let down compared to the rest of the game, but it doesn't ruin the experience. Tunic is still my favorite game, but I think Nine Sols and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes are my favorite action game and puzzle game, while Tunic just combines the two well enough to be better.

[@pigpenandpaper]

"Wishy Washy" is a great way to describe modern Square's writing, as someone who does still like and play their games

[@THiNGYBOBinc]

27:55 Going off of his Mobygames page, it seems like Kenneth Young's main non-Astro Bot claim to fame is music for the LittleBigPlanet series, particularly the first two. It's also worth noting that Astro Bot has a few songs by other composers who used to work at Japan Studio, like Kemmei Adachi (Locoroco, Patapon) and a couple others I can't remember off the top of my head. ...sorry, when people start talking about game composers it sets off a switch in my brain

[@peppermillers8361]

Don't apologize, that's awesome knowledge. I wish I knew this kind of stuff too off the top of my head.

[@Laura_5757]

Why didn’t you play Lorelei and the Laser Eyes on the channel? I got so excited when it came up on your list cause I would have loved to hear your reactions and thought processes on the game and puzzles. I’m currently about halfway through it but have hit a bit of a psychological wall now that there is an actual threat that can chase the player character, which is a mechanic that stresses me out so much that I’m having trouble concentrating on solving the puzzles! I can see why you might not record your play through; it IS a lot of reading and caters to a very specific audience, but damn, now that I know you have played it, I’m mourning the “bumbling through” play through that never was 😢

[@sallyeloo]

Thanks for another year of games sgf, although I haven't been as present on your streams it's always great to watch the VODs here, and chatting with the discord server. shoutout to the gaymers in sgf chat!! thanks for making 2024 bearable

[@mahartma]

The chemicals in my brain are giving me the good feelings

[@user-lx9tl3lc5f]

Happy new year to my favorite KZbinr. I'm honestly bewildered that you're on gold stakes on Balatro, I'm bouncing off purple stakes. I'd really be interested to see you playing a gold stake run and explaining your choices. Also, have you played Sanabi? I played it recently and thought it was excellent. Probably not stream material though. Oh, and I thought Cryptmaster was also very good this year. Tactical Breach Wizards was also very good, but I didn't like the ending. Oh and whenever you mutter "No one knows Laser Lords" You can be sure that I do. There are dozens of us! Dozens!

[@Achoohorsey]

Thanks for another great year SGF!!!

[@erikawc6525]

Bumper crop this year, it seems. My favorites of the games I watched you play were Home Safety Hotline and Wilson's Heart, even though only one of those came out this year. Thank you for showing both of them off!

[@WolfBetter]

Another year, another time I see your wrap up video just before midnight.

[@viiktorii]

Happy New Year SGF and community 🥰🎉 great list!! #2 is a heck yeah, #1 makes me intrigued!!

[@hanskelsen8184]

Thank you for everything, SGF! Have a happy new year.

[@zmonkey4000]

Another year another excellent top 10 games list with SGF. Happy New Years to all

[@minigmaenigma]

Pleasantly surprised you gave persona 3r a try! It's definitely one of the best storywise, if you really want to wait on p4 getting a full remake you might just go ahead and skip to persona 5 royal, a p4 remake probably won't be done for like another 5 years unfortunately

[@rzagza5360]

Happy new year and thanks for the fun SGF, have a nice 2025!

[@GeorgeNoiseless]

Happy New Year, Super Great Co-View-nity! I hope You are all Safe and Well. And so remain in the coming year. But if at any point any of us have to go down in flames, I hope we go down cackling madly and dragging our enemies with us.

[@MyOtheHedgeFox]

All of them are quite deserved, especially №7! Surprised about №3, confused about №9, perplexed about №2 (I still like the original version more for some odd reason), and had no idea of №1! My personal top this year: - *Zachtronics Solitaire Collection.* All year, every year, this remains a mainstay of mine. Such a wonderful way to reboot during commute. - *Barony.* A surprisingly fun shooter roguelike! Haven't upgraded my PC to the specs of *Roboquest* yet so that might change, but Barony just drips style. Probably the closest thing to realtime Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup I've seen so far. - *Regicide (the board game).* A cool deck of tabletop characters and a nice, scalable game to go with it! One of my favorite discoveries. - *Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers.* A stellar kart game, cheap-as-free, features an amazing boost mechanic, practically every setting can be adjusted to your liking. - *Heroes of Might and Magic III: Horn of the Abyss.* A new faction, a new campaign (incredibly big and expansive!), and I discovered LuckTest this year too -- probably my most favorite way to get my weekly dose of HoMM until I get more free time. Cheers to all of you reading this, and a Happy New Year!

[@chrisbent5734]

The most uplifting end-of-the-year video 🎉

[@globoboboglob3270]

So between the firefighter game now and powerwash simulator previously, you really just have a thing for aiming water somewhere and see it do something. 🤔 Hahah happy new year Supergreatfriend and friends!

[@BastionProd]

Happy New Year SGF! So many of these titles look great and I wasn't aware of or the huge backlog did not justify a purchase of. I'll probably try Lorelei and Prince of Persia for sure in the future. Maybe 9 Sols too.

[@PumpkinFinch]

Happy New Year SGF! Amazing year with amazing games, you helped keep me san. I also loved Firefighter, watched it twice already. Here's to 2025 and more amazing games and amazing playthroughs 🎉🎉

[@prep-h]

Super Great Finds of 2024

[@shadowcupcake15]

Thanks for another great year sgf! Here’s to whatever 2025 is going to throw at us!

[@courteousc2060]

as though destiny calls, here we are again. happy new years, my super great friends

[@Hoooound]

Any chance you're gonna do a video series on game number 6? I really really wish I was smart enough to enjoy it but it's way over my head, would love to see more of it!

[@maramoonfog]

thank you for another year of vidgamz, sgf.

[@jakith7444]

Quasimorph is a really good horror-themed game but it's a roguelite.

[@fredt1983]

We take you for granted, may we all be inflated with video games until we're bursting.

[@hefferwolff3578]

Such a cool list with a lot of games i didnt know about!!

[@shokatsuryoukoumei]

That's a pretty cool list. Thanks as always :)

[@devmech]

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is 50% off in the PS5 store until 2025/1/7

[@bloodykun4443]

Gonna comment my own before watching the rest of this video, but I always enjoy hearing your takes when compared to what is generally more mainstream. In fact, I believe in your video for last year, one of the games you mentioned was Void Stranger, and it turns out it's at the top of my list for games I enjoyed most this year. Initially I thought it would be more akin to the Oracle Zelda games with the retro aesthetic, and I had my frustrations with it at first in it being more of a specific puzzle genre I've never heard of because I live under a rock, but the further I went in, the more it was all worth it in the end. Reminded me a lot of how much I enjoyed Tunic the year before. Another Code Recollection was not far behind, despite preferring my remakes/remasters to be as faithful as possible (Shadow of the Colossus, Metroid Prime Remastered, Pokemon HG/SS are my gold standard usually) I mostly enjoyed it even with it's low budget and other issues, probably because I don't have near as much fond memories of the second game. Even so, it's problems were enough to make me feel Void Stranger was all around better. For the rest of my list, I think outside the Pokemon S/V epilogue which is really not its own game, I made a point to try and clear out a lot of my older games than to spend money on any new ones, so I can't really judge. There are a fair few I think I'm kind of glad to have saved for later, being stuff like Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Space Marine 2, Black Myth Wukong, Yakuza 8(still haven't finished 7 as it is), besides waiting on ports of games like Stellar Blade. Not going to go over each in detail, but going in order, the rest of my list of games I either enjoyed or finished for the first time are Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus as well as Burst Re:Newal, MegaMan Battle Network 3 Blue, Metroid Zero Mission, P.N.03, Robot Alchemic Drive, Deluge, and lastly the aforementioned Pokemon epilogue just because I loved what little there was there even if I wanted more. In the past few weeks I've been finishing up the Gal*Gun games though and it's been tough to decide whether I'd change any of them out, but they just don't have that same emotional weight I invested into any of these characters. Feel like I really ought to just keep knocking these out while I'm on a roll like this to be honest, because whenever I stop it's difficult to get right back to it, with games like Dusk diver 2, Neon White, Evil West I just dropped while in the middle of. At the very least I never seem to lose any muscle memory so when I do go back to them it's like I never put them down to begin with. But I guess we'll see. Playing through more of the Senran Kagura games, decided to get some of the Neptunia ones for xmas before I try and restart the crossover game in hopes I might understand what's going on in it a bit more.

[@TriplePalindromous]

I can't believe Queen's Blood is only number 5

[@foxyshibata3783]

I think in elusively the Triple-A Sector, this year was weaker than 2023, but, If you're not someone who's algorithmically designed to contribute to twitter trends, this year was great for games. It was also a great year to be a SuperGreatFriend Viewer. Honestly, I think Alone in the Dark (2024) was my favorite LP of the year. Damn shame that the studio got put down. AA, like the american middle class, is a vanishing staple.

[@sweetpotatofreak]

I put all my money on Arzette and now I'm BROKE!!

[@rockguitarist8907]

You’ll love Persona 4 and 5!

[@PeterMcGuf]

I completely agree about number 5. The total lack of restraint is great for most of the "game" parts. The lack of restraint when telling the STORY though? Woof.

[@sbef]

8:49 SGF is a ghostbuster, or a man in black they send when there's a UFO about

[@RanMouri82]

I'm actually quite optimistic for 2025. We might start getting even better games in development.

[@Kramdaddy]

Happy New Year SGF and everyone! Man, FF7 Rebirth was so disappointing for me, but otherwise it was a great year in games.

[@PsychoEditor]

Oh shit this is really nicely edited

[@Eskapismus]

Playing P4G right now. I've just played P5 before and I think it's veeeery simular. I'm really liking it though.

[@koffeestein8062]

I love you SGF. Happy New Year! I did fall asleep many times on some of your videos late at night during 2024 (maybe you should consider doing ASMR on an additional channel, dunno... Barely joking, but still joking x)), quite a busy year. Many thanks for your playthroughs, especially those for Echostasis (what a game...), Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (didn't expect you would do it! Hope you'll do Downpour too to complete the circle of the Halo of the Sun [Book of Memories doesn't exist]... Quite a bad game for a lot of reasons IMAO, but not lacking good ideas, though), Mouthwashing (such a surprise) and, most of all, Slitterhead (my new favorite video game soundtrack... I've been waiting since 2012/Shadows of the Damned that Yamaoka composes such kind of VGS! What a shame Bokeh Games didn't have the means to achieve its ambitions... Hope the best for its next game). And I utterly agree with you about Hollowbody: even if the game is really not that good, it's quite impressive for the work of a single person... I'm really curious to see what they'll do in the future. Didn't forget your playthrough of SH2 remake, but I'll watch it once I have the time to give it a try. But quite scared to... All the best for you! Still grateful to the friend who recommended me your channel many years ago...

[@user-lx9tl3lc5f]

What's the game to the left of Spy Fiction with the screaming Lich in a Buddhist orange robe by the way, I don't recognize it.

[@KingshipKRP]

It’s alternative box-art for Cursed Mountain on Wii. SGF has mentioned the game a few times, but I don’t recall him playing it for the stream/channel yet.

[@doyleharken3477]

@@KingshipKRP he did, years ago. i believe it's part of an old games night stream if it's not a standalone video? he mentioned it was so boring there'll probably never be a full playthrough

[@user-lx9tl3lc5f]

@@doyleharken3477 Oh, yeah, he played one hour of it years ago. He didn't sound like he was enjoying it very much.

[@nimorp]

Hell Yeah!

[@redtonicSA]

wait, did SGF play FFXIV?

[@ivant.w.9152]

I haven't played FFVII Rebirth, but I felt about Remake pretty much the same way SGF talked about Rebirth - it had a lot of great moments marred by (what I felt was) pretty poor storytelling. I think it started out fantastic and got progressively worse as the game went on, ending on a pretty bad note.

[@doyleharken3477]

thank you for another full year of quality video gaming-related entertainment. you truly are the supereyepatchwolf. wait no

[@edgemaverick2079]

I highly recommend BAKERU

[@PsychoEditor]

Please play golden!

[@RedWanderer1]

Number 5 is such an interesting case. Personally, I love everything they have done so far. Story, narrative, characters development, etc. I'm at a point that I have done 4 playtroughs and will do a fifth once is out on PC. And have watched a lot of playtrhoughs also. Obviously there are no perfect games but I now like more the Remake games more than the original.

[@PeteOfDarkness]

If Dustborn isn't #1 we may have a disagreement. Just kidding. Happy 2025!

[@jackmehoff9957]

0:48 I love you SGF but I don't understand what you are saying here. Are you okay? Is there like a tsunami in you're area? Seriously it's a little concerning and I hope you are okay. If anyone wants to tell me please do because now I'm a little worried about SGF.

[@minigmaenigma]

Im pretty sure he's just talking about the shitshow our country is right now combined with the bird flu shit going on lol

[@lipsontajgordongrunk4328]

There’s a polar vortex hitting the east coast so a lot of areas are getting really unusual cold weather and depending on where you live it’s like below zero lol.

[@jackmehoff9957]

@@minigmaenigma I like avoiding most news and political stuff so I've been under a rock. What's the problem? I like you're avatar

[@jackmehoff9957]

@@lipsontajgordongrunk4328 I had no idea I hope SGF is okay