Best video games released in 2024

4591 duels later, Black Myth: Wukong is still #1 in the 2024 Releases ranking, with Astro Bot close behind.

Black Myth: Wukong secures the top spot with 1373 ELO points and a 64% win rate across 267 duels, edging out Astro Bot by 15 points. The podium closes with The Last of Us Part II Remastered at 1349 ELO, while Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth round out the top 5. The modest gap separating the leaders suggests no runaway favorite emerged from the year's lineup, with players splitting their enthusiasm across several strong contenders. At the opposite end, Throne and Liberty languishes at rank 30 with 999 ELO points, trailing Skull and Bones and Satisfactory 1.0. The bottom tier reveals a community that formed clear opinions on which releases missed the mark, leaving these titles firmly in last place despite hundreds of duels each.

This ranking draws from 4591 duels cast by 40 players across 30 contenders, all updated on 12 October 2026. The vote remains open: head to the 2024 Releases TopList and cast your own duels to shift the standings. Every matchup refines the ELO scores and brings the ranking closer to the community's true favorites from the year's catalog.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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