You need to add these oddball 2024 hidden gems to your backlog

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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been reflecting on the best video games of 2024. You can read personal stories about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, check out our top 10 games of the year, or learn why this year didn’t need Hollow Knight: Silksong. We’ve already name-checked a lot of heavy hitters, but as is the case every year, there’s much more to explore. The truth is that we’re always left with a list of genuine hidden gems that we’re eager to recommend to anyone building an end-of-year backlog.

This year, we’re not going to keep those games to ourselves. Instead, we want to put some fantastic games on your radar that deserve to be revisited during a quiet final few weeks for new releases. Many of these games are short, too, which makes them perfect for your holiday commutes. Sure, your backlog may already be at capacity, but we promise that these little treasures are all entirely unique experiences that highlight just how creative the entire gaming landscape is, right down to its most eccentric fringes.

Arctic Eggs

Depending on how tuned in you are to gaming,Arctic Eggs is either a totally foreign title or a phenomenon. The $10 Steam hit is a bizarre game about a fry cook who can only escape from Mount Everest by cooking for enough people in a dystopian sci-fi mountain outpost. That’s no easy task. The frying controls are intentionally maddening, calling back to games like Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy. Successfully frying an egg requires a very delicate flick of the joystick or else you’ll send your egg flying. And that task is made even more complicated when you’re asked to fry them up with cigarettes and cockroaches. What does it all mean? That’s the exact