Personal Pick

In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month.

I can't remember a single game that has polarized the PC Gamer team as much as Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Even pre-launch, opinions were mixed, and now that it's been out for some time, we've congealed into three camps: Anti-Veilguardites Robin and Fraser, Radical Veilguard Centrists Harvey and Lauren (who wrote our review), and The People's Revolutionary Council of Revisionist Veilguard-Likers, which consists of Jody and yours truly.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is not my personal game of the year, that's gotta be Shadow of the Erdtree. It's also not my second favorite game of the year⁠—that title belongs to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. But by God, Veilguard is 100% my third favorite game of 2024. While not perfect, I think it's a heartening return to form for BioWare, and one whose finer qualities have been eclipsed by both valid critiques of its storytelling, as well as far less acceptable "antiwoke" bellyaching. I really dug this game, and I want to give it its flowers before the year is through.