MiSide

MiSide is a hybrid of a visual novel and a quest with a cute anime girl as the key character. The game masterfully juggles emotions — at different times it evokes affection, pity, slight sadness and even genuine horror. And the ending that you get during the first playthrough can be downright shocking. However, this is far from the only project that combines horror and feminine charm. You will find other examples in our article.

In December and early January, many New Year photo shoots are released. We have collected the most striking of them in a separate article. But at the same time, girls also publish more familiar cosplay works in the images of famous characters. In this material, you will find heroines from the universe The Witcher, Baldur's Gate 3 and Marvel comics. Connoisseurs of rare images can pay attention to the mother of Uncle Fyodor from Prostokvashino.

Time and again, we notice a trend: while there are few AAA releases, and many of them disappoint, niche indie games unexpectedly rise to prominence. There have been such examples before, from Undertale and Stardew Valley to Hades and Disco Elysium. In the last weeks of 2024, a similar phenomenon emerged with MiSide — an anime horror game, where a charming girl named Mita turns the protagonist's life into a nightmare.

The past year was rather lacking in major releases and blockbuster hits. As a result, many gamers (including us) formed the opinion that nothing substantial was released in 2024. But of course, that's not true. According to Steam statistics, more games were released last year than in 2023. Throughout the season, we mainly talked about the most important and loud releases and less about small projects that were unlucky with advertising and wide publicity. In this article, we've compiled 15 cool games that you definitely need to try. Perhaps these projects will be what you associate with 2024.

Lately, it seems like PC gaming is pointless without a high-end build. Demanding new releases "stutter" on devices where they should run smoothly. Last year even saw a list of the worst-optimized games compiled.

But games that you can fully enjoy on a weak PC or laptop are still being released. We've put together a list of the best releases that will run at least on minimum settings, even if your graphics card hasn’t been upgraded in a decade. All of these games were released in 2024 and received high ratings on Steam.