Moving on with the series of retrospectives from 2024, let's talk about the best games I played last year.

Vampire Survivors: DLCs + novas plataformas

My most played game of the year was, once again, Vampire Survivors. Two excellent DLCs were released, plus some free patches for the base game with improvements and new features. They doubled down on partnerships with other games, releasing Operation Guns (a collab with the Contra series) and Ode to Castlevania.

I had all the achievements unlocked on the Xbox, so I redid the achievement hunt on PC and Playstation 5.

Buy and play Vampire Survivors. Fair price for the base game and the DLCs, has a lot of content and you are also supporting an independent studio.

Alan Wake 2: Night Springs & The Lake House

Finally the sequel of my favorite game of all time had all of its expansions released.

Night Springs is Remedy weirdness at its finest. You'll get a lot of metalanguage and ties with the other games the company released over the time. Three short stories with very interesting twists.

In The Lake House, we explore the Federal Bureau Of Control's facility in the region of the lake house of the first game.

It's a self-contained story, and you can expect drama, environmental horror, a nice critique of IA usage and a great expansion of the Remedyverse. The DLC's antagonists are one of the most evil characters in the entire cast.

And if you explore enough, you can get a sneak peek at what's to come in Control 2.

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster (ou seria Remake?)

My favorite game from the Dead Rising franchise is the first, but I know the gameplay could feel dated by today's standards. When the Deluxe Remaster was announced, I could not believe in what I was seeing: a modernized gameplay, rebuilt from the ground up on the excellent RE Engine and with cut content restored.

I was drawn by the game on the release day - it was everything I was wanting and a little bit more.

Every single update on the game was perfect: the gameplay, the graphics, the Brazilian Portuguese localization... For a moment I forgot how frustrated I was playing Dead Rising 4 in 2016.

The game is more like a Remake than a Deluxe Remaster. I hope it sells well so we can get more Deluxe Remasters in the future. And maybe, a brand-new Dead Rising game.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage

This is for the ones that gets tired by only thinking in playing a 200+ hours campaign on the newest Assassin's Creed. AC Mirage tells the origin story of Basim, one of the main characters from AC Valhalla.

In this game, all the systems are simplified, much closer than the pré-RPG era of Assassin's Creed. If you miss the old Assassin's Creed Style games, grab this one in a sale and be happy.

AstroBot

Since I played Astro's Playroom I was wanting more. A bigger sequel with more crazy and experimental content. Astro Bot is exactly this. Super precise gameplay, a lot of costumes, power ups, cameos and the best use of the DualSense features.

If you have access to a PS5, I would say this is one of the obligatory games to have.

The last game that was able to put a smile in my face like that all the time was Super Mario Odyssey. A well deserved Game Of The Year winner for the last year's The Game Awards.

Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown

What a beautiful and delightful game! This is how you do a franchise revival. The Lost Crown is a 2.5D metrodivania with first-class platforming, combat and challenges. Developed by the same studio that made Rayman Origins and Legends, so you can have an idea of the quality of the final product.

The game has beautiful stylized graphics, and it runs pretty well on last gen consoles, including the Switch (60fps) and on the current-gen consoles, 120pfs.

Marsupilami Hoobadventure

Got it on a sale and loved it. A platform game in the style of Donkey Kong Country returns. Beautiful, short and challenging.

The Devil In Me (The Dark Pictures Anthology)

My third Supermassive Games game, after Man Of Medan and The Quarry (which I loved). I played in couch-coop with my nephew, and we had so much fun. The game has a Saw vibe, and it had some very tense moments. We read all the documents we find, but the story was somewhat confusing.

If you have friends of family into horror stuff, go for it!

Fortnite

I played a lot of Fortnite last year, but I feel I'm gonna play less and less from now on. The game itself is now a platform for other Unreal Engine based games.

I've been losing the interest in the battle pass style format of gameplay with all the necessary grind to grab all the rewards by the end of the season. Maybe moving into a model where the Battle Pass do not expire could make me more inclined to keep playing.

To me, the highlight of last year were the collaborations that came with awesome skins. My favorites were the Billy The Puppet from the Saw franchise and the Lady Gaga music pass.

That's it! On the next post, what I listened last year.