Top 20 favorite games of 2024 from Japanese developers

This week’s issue of Famitsu contains a huge feature in which the magazine caught up with a ton of developers to find out about their favorite games they played in 2024. The overall results have been combined to give us a look at the top 20.

A Nintendo Switch game tops the chart – that being Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. From Nintendo, the one title that appears is The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom at #13. Other notable games on the list include Unicorn Overlord, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven, Balatro, and Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island.

The full lineup is as follows:

1. Dragon Quest 3: HD 2D Remake
2. Astro Bot
3. Metaphor: ReFantazio
4. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
5. Black Myth: Wukong
6. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
7. Unicorn Overlord
8. Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
9. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
10. Stellar Blade
11. Street Fighter 6
12. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
13. Balatro
14. Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
15. Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story
16. Silent Hill 2
17. Rise of the Ronin
18. Tekken 8
19. Zenless Zone Zero
20. No Case Should Remain Unsolved

What was your favorite game of 2024? Let us know in the comments.

Thanks to Persona Central for the data above.