What are your 2024 gaming resolutions?

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A stylised image of the year 2024.

Welcome to the sci-fi future year of 2024!

As the Earth turns and calendars are changed out, our thoughts turn inevitably to making some New Year’s resolutions. Surely this could be the year you finish your Steam backlog, clean up your gaming bad habits, or finally fix your terrible posture? All that’s needed is a solid plan and the determination to see it through. And the ability to not forget it all a week into January.

Tackle my backlog

Mollie Taylor, Features Producer

I just bought a Steam Deck, which means I have officially run out of excuses to avoid tackling my ever-growing backlog of games. I don’t expect to clear it—that’ll never happen—but betweensome light organisationand the power of portability, I’m hoping I can finally start to chip away at those games I always feel like playing but can never be bothered to sit at my desk for. 2024 is for gaming while lying in bed, Steam Deck in the air, forever in danger of dropping the thing right on my face.

Organise my endless screenshots

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer

I take a lot of screenshots. That’s part of my job (those snazzy images don’t just grow on trees, y’know) but it’s also a habit I’ve had for years. I like saving significant gaming moments, but whenever I go to reminisce I feel like I’m diving head-first into a landfill. No more.

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2024 Harvey will pin all of his folders to quick access. He’ll rename them (as long as that doesn’t break anything), and delete the bad ones to clear up space. Running the numbers, I’m confident this will buy me at least two months before I snap too many more pics and start drowning again.

Finally finish Baldur’s Gate 3, damn it

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The Dark Urge, from Baldur’s Gate 3, looks towards his accursed claws with self-disdain.

Robin Valentine, Senior Editor

My goal for 2023 was simply to play more games that came out that year, so I’d be more on the pulse of things and better equipped for the bumfight that is our Game of the Year discussions. I did pretty well on that—but I think this year I want an even more specific goal.

I loved Baldur’s Gate 3 when it came out, and I’ve played a lot of hours of it, but shamefully I never finished it—when Starfield came out, I had to hop over to that for work, and the longer I spent away from BG3, the more it seemed like if I went back, I’d need to start over to benefit from all the patches and improvements it’d received. Not to mention how many people told me I should be playing a Dark Urge character. It all just seemed way too time-consuming, so I put it off for the rest of the year.

No more. On the last day of 2023, I started that new character, and I’m determined in 2024 to stick with them and finally finish what might be the best PC RPG ever, lest it haunt me for the rest of my gaming career.

Stop buying AAA games at launch—wait until they’re fixed

Robert Jones, Print Editor

Despite how awesome 2023 was for PC gaming, with some truly incredible gaming experiences delivered (I’m looking at you, ourgame of the year, Baldur’s Gate 3) I think it was a new low for PC versions of new AAA games. Far too many released in an absolutely terrible state.

From the big budget flopForspokenat the start of the year that had PC Gamer’s reviewer Mollie Taylor crying into her keyboard thanks to its performance woes, through the"F**k us PC gamers right?“version of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and onto the"Pandora’s box of technical issues"that Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora was for our reviewer, 2023 was a terrible year for many AAA PC games at launch. And that’s not even mentioning numerous other huge games that were deemed release ready despite launching with key options like FOV sliders and ultra-widescreen support missing (cough,Starfield, cough).

Try a new (to me) game every week

Lauren Morton, Associate Editor

Mollie may be tactically tackling her backlog but I’m not that ambitious. I know that’s never going to happen. Looking back on last year though, it feels like I dumped a lot of time into just a few games while I kept up with the wild release schedule of big RPGs. I caught up on lots of new games from the year in a bit of a whirlwind starting in November and don’t want to give myself that guilt trip this year. So in 2024 I’m going to try something new (to me) every week of the year. It may be a backlog game I’ve sat on for years or something that just launched and deserves my attention. Luckily, Mollie and I report back on what we’ve been playing each week on theChat Log podcastso I’ve got a little built in accountability.

Find a cosy farming game that doesn’t stress me out

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Disney Dreamlight Valley unhappy character

Christopher Livingston, Senior Editor

I’ve written about howcosy farming life sims inevitably fill me with rage, but I’m determined to find one this year that will actually relax me instead. I love building a little house, tending to crops, and getting to know the locals—I just need to figure out why puttering around in a peaceful world always makes me so irritated. I’m sure there’s a cosy game out there that can actually leave me feeling content, I just need to track it down.

A good starting place is Lauren’scosy game recommendations, but there’s also the idea of taking a hardcore survival game and making it cosylike Sarah did with Sons of the Forest.

Finally play some classic (and not so classic) RPGs

Phil Savage, UK Editor-in-Chief

I like the idea of RPGs more than I actually play them. Here’s the thing: they’re very long, and there are a lot of them. For all the ones I’ve actually completed, there are 10 more that I’ve never touched. But every so often I’ll pick a random cult classic from the archives—your Anachronoxes, your Shadowrun Dragonfalls, hell, even your Alpha Protocols—and usually have a great time. Even if an RPG isn’tgood, it can be interesting.

Send my multiplayer gaming time… back in time 😎

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One of the playable characters in Unreal Tournament 2004.

Wes Fenlon, Senior Editor

Over the holiday break I set up a very cool application on my home server calledAMP, which lets me quickly spin up dedicated servers formore than 100 games. The really nice thing about AMP is that it converts all the complex command line stuff you’d normally have to do with a game server into a mouse-friendly interface; it took me only a few clicks to get Unreal Tournament 2004 running and set my match, mutators and map of choice. AMP supports quite a few other old games that I either missed out on in their prime or never played, including Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and The Ship, with new games being added frequently. Instead of my friends and I hopping on the live service game of the moment and chasing the latest seasonal battle pass, I want to build a habit of booting up something older and justplaying, with no skins or XP boosts in sight.

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Tackle my backlog#

Organise my endless screenshots#

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals#

Finally finish Baldur’s Gate 3, damn it#

Stop buying AAA games at launch—wait until they’re fixed#

Try a new (to me) game every week#

Find a cosy farming game that doesn’t stress me out#

Finally play some classic (and not so classic) RPGs#

Send my multiplayer gaming time… back in time 😎#