Happy New Year y'all! My first video of the New Year takes a look back at the year of GOG gaming 2024 to see what cool new releases we got. There were many I didn't play so I relied on GOG User Reviews submitted by Goglodytes like you to tell me what the best stuff was. And let's just say, y'all got some interesting tastes....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTpaBS-oqo

Shoutout to Alexim for providing me with the list of 2024 releases and solar_dome for maintaining the list of Gog news threads. Thanks guys! :)

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is in the top 9?!

HEY! The Crimson Diamond is a great game, damn it! >:/ Take it back!




(also, since I'm one of the first people to watch this, if you're wondering why the overall watchtime is less than the actual video, it's because some of us watch videos at a faster speed. I watch vids at x1.75 :P)

But it looks so old?! :P

For real though, I'll reserve judgement on any game until I've actually played them.

Pffft!

Thank you, very entertaining video that seems to confirm the classic tastes of GOG users. I too would really like Animal Well on GOG, hopefully the creator will make up his mind.

So to give a bit of insight into how I ranked them, I went to each store page from Alexim's 2024 release list (that means all 664 games) and checked the star rating listed by the title. A lot of games had no ratings because Gog said there wasn't enough reviews to generate an average rating so I left those off the list. I did this around the first week of January and recorded the star rating for each game then sorted them. Anything that had the same star rating like several that had 4.6/5.0 then I would rank ones that had fewer reviews lower and ones with more reviews higher on the list. If there was a tie then I'd flip a coin (Except for the final two that ended up being a tie. I went with the one that looked cooler to me). If you go back to any of those games now you'll see some of the ratings have changed. Namely Mullet MadJack had a nice 4.9/5.0 but upon going back to it now says 4.8/5.0. So all my rankings are based on what they were from the first week of January.

Well, MULLET MADJACK currently has 4.8 based on 10 ratings while God of War has 4.4 based on 150 (nice round numbers, there). If applying what I recall reading once is a basic formula to determine the error margin of surveys, 1/(sqrt(number_of_responses)) and deduct that from the score you get a minimum certain score of 4.04 for God of War and 3.32 for MULLET MADJACK. Would make things quite different, and way more relevant.
From what I see, GOG considers 5 ratings as enough for a score.

Perhaps but I tried to keep things simple and grouped games based on their overall average score first then sorted within that group who had more reviews. Idk, I think it helped highlight a couple of oddball games no one would've heard about otherwise.

There is that, but you sounded quite outraged, so... :p

Oh come now, that was just for the show. I'm sure a lot of those deserve the high spot. I'm sure if I played them myself I'd see the appeal. Except for that Cat Tower game. Nope! Not gonna play a "I Spy" cat game.

Hi, came from the video. Is the published games list public?
edit: I guess I can just browse all the games from the newest to the oldest.

Not yet, I should propose it for the GOTY 2024 as I did for previous years, stay tuned!