Best 2024 Video Games for world-building

#1 Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
5.0

World-building is praised for making Gaia feel more alive, detailed, and newly understandable compared with older versions.

Pros: combat system, content variety

Cons: pacing, movement feel

#2 Dragon Ball FighterZ
5.0

World-building is praised through the reviewer’s affection for Dragon Ball's broad world, character history, and lore appeal.

Pros: combat system, accessibility options

Cons: narrative quality, matchmaking quality

#3 The Last of Us Part II Remastered
4.8

World-building was praised for Seattle’s detail, environmental storytelling, and the way the sequel frames grief and factions.

Pros: content variety, narrative quality

Cons: pacing

#4 Pokemon LeafGreen and FireRed Versions
4.5

Kanto feels coherent and memorable despite sparse text, using connected routes, distinctive towns, gyms, caves, villains, and Pokémon habitats to create a convincing adventure.

Pros: fun factor, faithfulness to franchise

Cons: remake/remaster quality, value for money

#5 Slitterhead
4.4

The dense Kowloon-inspired city and supernatural premise create an appealing world, though thin interaction and uneven storytelling limit its depth.

Pros: gameplay mechanics, originality

Cons: overall quality, combat system

#6 Star Wars Outlaws
4.4

The criminal underworld, everyday cultures, and lived-in settlements make the galaxy feel broader than the usual Jedi-centered Star Wars stories.

Pros: fun factor, originality

Cons: stealth mechanics, combat system

#7 Dungeons of Hinterberg
4.4

Hinterberg’s tourism economy, local concerns, and alpine folklore create an unusual and often convincing setting. Some players find the town emptier or less developed than the surrounding dungeons.

Pros: puzzle design, social features

Cons: enemy variety, polish