You're missing out if you haven't played balatro yet, goty quality game.

The last year 2023 was incredible (providing a lot of good games).

Fils Aime: ‘Thank you, but I want more.’ ‘Thank you, but give me more.’ I mean, it is insatiable. 2012 https://kotaku.com/the-trouble-with-the-never-satisfied-gamer-5920572

Not sure about the upcoming months but I felt like 2024 started off with quite a few games coming out one after another, including Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, Helldivers 2, Last Epoch and Dragon's Dogma 2.

And Manor Lords is coming out this month as well.

The problem you've got is that the two lists that you're looking at are ones with concrete release dates, and we're currently in the period of the year where the release dates are the hardest to come by. Basically everyone's either just started their fiscal Q1 and so have a completely clear slate, or like Microsoft have just started their Fiscal Q4 which means all they've got left on the slate are the delayed stragglers.

No. As others have said, there's just a lack of information about what's coming out. Basically starting last year, companies got fed up with announcing release dates that they can't meet, which has a tangible marketing expense on their side, among other problems. So now we basically only hear about games' release dates when they're imminent. This year, we've gotten:

• Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore
• Balatro
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Penny's Big Breakaway
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Tekken 8
• The Thaumaturge
• Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes

...and while it's divisive, I quite liked Alone in the Dark.

We've got the likes of Palworld and Enshrouded in early access, with No Rest for the Wicked to join them shortly.

There are a couple of games from smaller developers and publishers I've got my eye on with likely or confirmed 2024 release dates. They may have a wide spread in quality when reviews hit, but some of them could be winners, especially since they're in genres currently underrepresented by the wider market:

• Aero GPX
• Agent 64: Spies Never Die
• Big Boy Boxing
• Broken Roads
• Conscript
• Commandos: Origins
• Core Decay
• Fallen Aces
• Kingmakers
• Phantom Fury
• The Plucky Squire
• Streets of Rogue 2
• Tempest Rising
• Titan Quest II
• V Rising (1.0 release)
• Warside

Then some other noteworthy games that are likely going to be very good and have a real shot at releasing this year:

• Avowed
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Dragon Age: Dreadwolf
• Gears 6
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Judas
• Mina the Hollower
• The Rise of the Golden Idol

What this year doesn't have, at least so far, is a clear front runner like Baldur's Gate 3 or God of War, but there's more than half of the year left.

Don’t a crazy amount come out towards the end of the year rather than the beginning? I’ve never really paid a whole lot of attention cuz I’m always playing old games.

I assume you're talking specifically about upcoming games that haven't been released yet? Yeah I can't really think of anything coming up that I'm excited about. Currently the only games I'm looking forward to are Metroid Prime 4 (if it ever comes out) and the indie game Dreamsettler (the sequel to Hypnospace Outlaw)