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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.

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 only started playing Midnight Suns for this winter break and it is exactly what I needed. It is so nice to get away from MCU these days and see these characters a little closer to their comic counterparts, and the Slay the Spire/XCOM gameplay doesn't hurt either.