Blaze Media Reports: Fans overwhelmingly supported games in 2024 that shied away from progressive ideologies, opting for a return to normalcy.

Whether it was through sports or some good, old-fashioned hack-and-slash, the best games of the year didn't need to sell you on nonbinary adventures; they let the gameplay do the talking.

Warhammer

The first on that list is Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. The game was well received not only by the general public but by skeptics who worried the game would take a turn toward the dark side.

As That Park Place reported in May, Warhammer lore was rewritten to ensure inclusivity to females, removing the words "sons" and "men" from older texts.

Thankfully, the only thing that was "questioning" in this game was whether the gamer should first kill the massive horde of aliens coming from his left or his right.

A sprawling landscape, while feeling choked at times, still delivered a graphically impressive title that is easy to pick up and play and even included couch co-op. Step into a giant suit of armor and kill aliens with giant swords and machine guns? Yes.

Stellar Blade fought the machine and won — multiple times. The game was plagued with bad press from the start, but for all the right reasons. First, South Korean video game director Hyung-Tae Kim was accused of sexism when he dared to make his lead character look like an actual woman.

Complaints said character Eve was an unrealistic portrayal of the female body, but it was quickly pointed out that the character was a body scan of a living person.