Liam's Top 5 PS5 Games of 2024 | Push Square
Our individual Game of the Year articles allow our lovely team of writers and editors to share their own personal PS5 picks for 2024. Today, it's the turn of assistant editor Liam Croft.
While it didn’t land with me quite as much as it did with the rest of the PlayStation audience, Astro Bot is still easily one of my favourite experiences of 2024. Every single level is simply phenomenal, a lesson in enjoyable and pristine platforming mixed with the memorable (and some not so obvious) faces of the brand’s past.
I loved seeing all the Special Bots gathering together in the main hub area, and then the franchise-specific stages made for more highlights. I’ve never even played LocoRoco before, but that level was excellent.
Sony’s output this year has felt lacklustre, but Astro Bot was for sure something special — and would still be remembered the same even surrounded by stronger releases.
Atlus had an absolutely outstanding 2024, and Metaphor: ReFantazio was the cream of its crop. This for me was an experience so much more about the story, characters, and scenery than the combat, as the turn-based battles eventually became a little dull for me.
Fuelling me was the fight to be king, and all the narrative twists that came with it. I did it for Maria, who has to be the loveliest character Atlus has ever made. I also did it for all the stunning scenes Neuras would stop the gauntlet runner for.
This for me was all about the group you built across a 70-hour playthrough, and how your relationships with each member flourished. It’s an excellent JRPG, but an even better game about people.
The first game I reviewed this year stayed with me right until the very end; Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is utterly sublime. Easily the best the series has ever been, I was absolutely gripped by the storyline of Ichiban’s quest to find his mother, and all of the events happening around it.
The turn-based combat got better, the side stories got even funnier, and the frankly absurd amount of
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