What Is the Best JRPG of 2024?

Japanese role-playing games are arguably in a new golden era right now. 2024 saw the release of so many monumental titles. Persona 3 Reload, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and many more. But what is the overall best JRPG of 2024? We asked the Siliconera staff to let us know their picks for the best JRPG from this year.

Siliconera Speaks Up: Best Overall JRPG of 2024

It has to be Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for me. It really built on the original FFVII so well. The characters are great. I loved visiting the rest of the world. It was just so much fun and deserves to be celebrated. — Jenni

Dragon’s Dogma 2. Hands Down. No game I played this year feels like Dragon’s Dogma 2 and the meta layers of Itsuno’s hand and the world the team crafted are genuinely unlike anything I’ve had the pleasure of dancing with in games since Dragon’s Dogma and Dark Arisen. There is not a feeling on the planet like hitting a dragon with an uppercut so hard it falls flat on its back, tossing your partners at enemies and them learning to throw you too.

Then there is the breadth of environments and things that can just happen to you from falling down a hill right into a horde of skeletons by tripping wrongly or helping a guy get over his back pain only for a griffon to descend from on high and land right on top of him. Controversy about its content aside, this game left an indelible mark on my heart I don’t think much is going to come close to touching in a long, long while. — John

This might be a controversial take, but I actually separate the overall Game of the Year conversation from the best JRPG. Sometimes they overlap and other times they don’t. I think 2024 is a case of the latter. While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is my GOTY (or maybe Infinity Nikki; we’ll see), I think Metaphor: ReFantazio, technically, does a better job of being a pure JRPG.

The world is thrilling to explore, the turn-based combat from Atlus continues to define the genre, and the characters and story are at least spectacular through the Martira Arc. Metaphor is the best JRPG of 2024 for me. That said, I have to give a special shout out to The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak, FFXIV Dawntrail, and Fantasian: Neo Dimension, which were my runner-ups this year in that order. — Cody

What is your personal pick for the best JRPG of 2024? I would love to know! Be sure to tell us in the comments below.