There's no getting around it: I played many fewer games in 2024 than I played in the last several years. I also spent less time with the games I played in 2024 than I played in recent years.
Still, I put enough hours into enough games to have had a pretty great time in 2024.
Which game captured the most of my free time in 2024? That would be SaGa Emerald Beyond, which I played for just over 122 hours. This is the first time I've spent over 100 hours with a game in a single year since 2018.
- SaGa Emerald Beyond -- 122 hours, 05 minutes
- Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! -- 38 hours, 35 minutes
- Pokémon Violet -- 37 hours, 50 minutes
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island -- 33 hours, 45 minutes
- Endless Ocean Luminous — 16 hours, 40 minutes
- Emio — The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club — 10 hours, 45 minutes
- Another Code: Recollection (R) -- 8 hours, 35 minutes
- Another Code: Recollection (Two Memories) -- 8 hours, 15 minutes
- Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Kid — 6 hours
- Princess Peach Showtime! -- 5 hours, 25 minutes
- Pocket Card Jockey -- 4 hours, 05 minutes
- Uchu Shinshuchu -- 2 hours, 25 minutes
After SaGa Emerald Beyond comes Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, Pokemon Violet and Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island, respectively. I devoted more than 30 hours to each of these stellar titles, and I don't regret a single second of it.
It saddens me that I only gave Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Kid six hours in 2024. Hopefully I can find my way back to it this year.
How did you spend time with games in 2024?
See also: how I spent time with games in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020
