One of my favorite games of 2024 is Creature Caravan from Ryan Laukat at Red Raven Games. I love the tableau-building, dice-placement puzzle as you traverse across a map simultaneously with up to six players — it’s one that I’ve played multiple times since receiving my Kickstarter copy.

To prevent greenhouse emissions and save gamers money on their utility bills, developers are looking for ways to make video games more energy efficient.

The highly-anticipated blockbuster games were fewer in number and largely spread out from each other, at least until the fall, when several games released at the same time, creating a pile-up to explore.