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So here is my year recap for video games. Games of 2024: 1. Satisfactory 2. Arcs 3. Balatro 4. UFO 50 5. Pax Penning Pre-2024 I finally got to play in 2024 1. The Mortuary Assistant 2. Red Dead Redemption II 3. Midnight Suns 4. Dave the Diver 5. Dune: Spice Wars

Satisfactory has been an excellent relaxing factory game for Chloe and I. She just started her second run but I am definitely returning to it again as well.

Arcs is deserving of all its hype. It is very divisive but I love it and I haven't even gotten to the campaign yet. Probably the saltiest game I ever played, though.

Balatro and UFO 50 have been discussed to death in end-of-year lists and I am on that bandwagon for sure. Both games will live long lives in my classroom discussions.

Let's turn Sweden into a nation under a Christian king in this awesome game that feels as if it was created back when its history happened. So excited to play more games by Matilda.

Moving on to the games I enjoyed playing the most in 2024 despite them being OLD (apparently). The Mortuary Assistant is a blast! Clean up the 3 corpses while figuring out which one is possessed and trying to kill you. Two thumbs up!

This is probably a testament to how little time you actually have as an academic. I admit not having able to RDR2 until 2024, despite the original being one of my favorite games of all time! Mea culpa, but I enjoyed this one a ton this past year.

I loved how this was an eclectic mix of ingredients - XCOM, deck builder, Persona-style relationships, Marvel - all of which remained distinct and yet somehow worked. Delightful.

I did not think this was going to be for me, but it is excellent on the Steam Deck. I didn't care much for the Sea People storyline with all its fetch quests but I hadn't this much fun fishing since Ridiculous Fishing and that is not an easy achievement for a game.

Finally, Dune: Spice Wars is an excellent digital board game that reminds me a lot of our lord and savior, Twilight Imperium. Sure, it does not reach the lofty heights of a TI4 6+ player epic, but it is scratches a lot of its itches in around 2 hours. It deserves more players, so check it out!