Astro Bot Blasts Past Elden Ring, Currently 2024's Highest-Rated Release | Push Square

pushsquare.com:

Anyone who tells you that 2024 was a weak year for gaming is either extremely specific in the types of games they play or hilariously uninformed. As it is almost Game of the Year time once again, it seems the competition will be extremely close at awards shows like The Game Awards. But in terms of aggregate critical consensus, Astro Bot is the highest-rated release of 2024.

While far from scientific, sites like Metacritic and Opencritic remain useful tools for publishers and journalists to gauge public reaction to a product. While each aggregator's methodology is different, attempting to serve different audiences, the top four highest-rated games of 2024 have lined up across both and make for a very strong selection of games, even if one is not like the others.

Things deviate from there, with Metacritic's #5 spot occupied by retro collection UFO 50 and Opencritic's by a visual novel called Tsukihime — A Piece of Blue Glass Moon. Honestly, those four above make for a strong, surprisingly JRPG-heavy array of games that could keep the average player occupied for many blissful months.

FF7 Rebirth also gets 7 nominations

Effin and Geoffin

Have you played the four unanimously highest-rated games of 2024? Which was your favourite? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Deserved for Astro Bot! Shadow of the Erdtree was overrated by a pretty incredible margin for what was a 7/10 DLC.

I would really like to see AstroBot win the game of the year award. Sure, the Elden Ring DLC was awesome, but the game had its recognition and deservedly so last year, so it would be fair for another game to get a chance at