While the bones of Balatro will be familiar  devil138 to anyone with a cursory knowledge of poker, the ingenious modifiers and ways players can hit higher scores makes the lizard brain light up in delight and deserves all the praise it’s received this year. The third big trend from 2024 was the prominence of indie games in our list of best reviewed titles. All of these games received a 9, as well as numerous nominations in the IGN Awards.

It was 2019 and I’d just started contributing to the site as a freelancer focused exclusively on Destiny 2 guides and DLC reviews. I was only a few months in when my editor asked if I’d be interested in critiquing Hideo Kojima’s latest game come November. I enthusiastically accepted through the safety of a text chat, but I was a little terrified in real life. Original Jan asks his alters the same set of control questions each time they emerge from the Womb, moving through clockwork beats of dismay and outrage as the new arrivals grapple with the baffling nature of their existence. Indeed, as the hours accrue, the conversations naturally take on a kind of eerie, echoey feel, such is the way that Jan is, in essence, talking to himself.

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It’s crafted in a way that you build up to the moral dilemmas. The story has joy and fun woven with the larger complexities, so it doesn’t end up bogged down by the choices you face. The complexity of the situation and the drama that accompany it are balanced with breaks to play beer pong or watch movies. The Alters is much closer to a colony or resource management game than a full-blown survival title.

And if there’s a magnetic storm raging outside and I really need to secure some more materials? It’s not enough to simply find metals or raw rapidium, I need to then uncover the perfect spot for the mining machine, and then set up a network of pylons to power it from my base. In The Alters, the moral implications of cloning yourself aren’t lost in all the resource and base management systems. The emotional and ethical implications are felt from creating your very first Jan.