Google ends 2024 with a ranking of the most searched terms. Katt Williams is the most searched actor and a lot of people have been looking for Inside Out 2 as a movie. But the first place in video games is surprising because many of you won’t know it.
What is the most wanted game? Connections lands at number 1 in the ranking. This is a word puzzle game developed in 2023 by The New York Times. The title is available as a web version and for iOS and Android.
In the game you start with a field of 16 English words. The aim here is to create four word groups from four words that belong to a category. As an example: “Call, Dub, Label, Name” are all terms that give something else a name.
At the end of a puzzle, players can see how difficult the puzzle was compared to others and how many mistakes other guessers made.
Black Myth Wukong was also among the most searched games:
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The most searched games are not classic console games
Why is it so sought after? A new puzzle is added every day. That’s why the game is searched for every day when players need help solving it. So it’s no wonder that Connections is in first place.
Which other games were frequently searched for? Many of the remaining places are also not video games, which you are probably expecting. About half of the games are fan-made games, browser games or only available on mobile.
Palworld has probably been googled a lot because it has been quite controversial since its release. The game was accused from the start of being a brutal clone of Pokémon. The story even went so far that the development team behind the game was sued.
Another game that attracted a lot of attention this year was Helldivers 2. The number of players here was so high upon release that after a few months it was noticeable how much the number of active players had fallen.
With Wuthering Waves, the codes could be the decisive criterion for Googling the title. As with many Gacha games, there are regular codes to get the currencies in the game.
The action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong from Chinese developer Game Science was so popular that it was the second largest game on Steam when it was released. It even left behind giants like DOTA 2, Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077: Over 1 million players on Steam: Black Myth Wukong even beats Elden Ring in popularity