The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Have Been Announced!

Today, we just learned which games were nominated for The Game Awards 2024!

Game of the Year Nominees:
-Astro Bot
-Balatro
-Black Myth: Wukong
-Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
-Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
-Metaphor: ReFantazio​

And don’t forget, while the Game of the Year is important there’s also more categories than that. As for how Nintendo did, they have a pretty decent showing this year with 4 nominated games:

• Super Mario Party Jamboree in Best Family and Best Multiplayer
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom in Best Action/Adventure and Best Family
• Princess Peach: Showtime! in Best Family
• Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket in Best Mobile Game

As for the rest of the nominations, here’s a full list:

Best Action

• Black Myth: Wukong
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Helldivers 2
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
• Stellar Blade

Best Action/Adventure

• Astro Bot
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Silent Hill 2
• Star Wars Outlaws
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Best Adaptation

• Arcane
• Fallout
• Knuckles
• Like a Dragon: Yakuza
• Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

Best Art Direction

• Astro Bot
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Neva

Best Audio Design

• Astro Bot
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
• Silent Hill 2

Best Community Support

• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2
• No Man’s Sky

Best Debut Indie Game

• Animal Well
• Balatro
• Manor Lords
• Pacific Drive
• The Plucky Squire

Best Family

• Astro Bot
• Princess Peach: Showtime!
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• The Plucky Squire

Best Fighting

• DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
• Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
• Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
• MultiVersus
• Tekken 8

Best Esports Game

• Counter Strike 2
• Dota 2
• League of Legends
• Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
• Valorant

Best Esports Player

• Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen
• Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon
• Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok
• Mathieu “ZyWOo” Herbaut
• Neta “33” Shapira
• Zheng “ZmjjKK” Yongkang

Best Esports Team

• Bilibili Gaming
• Gen.G
• NAVI
• T1
• Team Liquid

Best Independent Game

• Animal Well
• Balatro
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Neva
• UFO 50

Best Mobile Game

• AFK Journey
• Balatro
• Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket
• Wuthering Waves
• Zenless Zone Zero

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Helldivers 2
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• Tekken 8
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Best Narrative

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Metaphor: ReFantanzio
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
• Silent Hill 2

Best Ongoing

• Destiny 2
• Diablo IV
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• Helldivers 2

Best Score and Music

• Astro Bot
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Silent Hill 2
• Stellar Blade

Best Sports/Racing

• F1 24
• EA Sports FC 25
• NBA 2K25
• Top Spin 2K25
• WWE 2K24

Best Sim/Strategy

• Age of Mythology: Retold
• Frostpunk 2
• Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
• Manor Lords
• Unicorn Overlord

Best Performance

• Briana White (Final Fantasy VII Rebirth)
• Hannah Telle (Life is Strange: Double Exposure)
• Humberly Gonzalez (Star Wars: Outlaws)
• Like Roberts (Silent Hill 2)
• Melina Juergens (Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2)

Best RPG

• Dragon’s Dogma 2
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio

Best VR/AR

• Arizona Sunshine Remake
• Asgard’s Wrath 2
• Batman: Arkham Shadow
• Metal: Hellsinger VR
• Metro Awakening

Content Creator of the Year

• CaseOh
• IlloJuan
• Techno Gamerz
• TypicalGamer
• Usada Pekora

Innovation in Accessibility

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Diablo IV
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Star Wars: Outlaws

Games for Impact

• Closer the Distance
• Indika
• Neva
• Life is Strange: Double Exposure
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II
• Tales of Kenzera: Zau

Most Anticipated Game

• Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
• Ghost of Yotei
• Grand Theft Auto 6
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Monster Hunter Wilds

As always, fans can vote for their favorite in each category at The Game Awards’ official website.

Author’s Note: Gotta say, this year has a solid line-up and I think all the games nominated for Game of the Year truly deserve to be there. My only complaint for this year is that Rivals of Aether II not being nominated for Best Fighting just feels rather silly. Especially when its fellow platfighter MultiVersus is nominated a second time after already winning Best Fighting in 2022. But enough about my thoughts, what do you think? Please let us know in the comments below!

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I voted for Marvel vs. Capcom Collection, God tier right there

 

Why is Zelda in best family? Is that just a category they slap any cartoony game into because I can't imagine many people playing the game with their family. It's a single player adventure game

 

Why is Zelda in best family? Is that just a category they slap any cartoony game into because I can't imagine many people playing the game with their family. It's a single player adventure game

it's a family game because after it chugs down to 30fps, you stop playing it and start spending more time with your family

 

Why is Zelda in best family? Is that just a category they slap any cartoony game into because I can't imagine many people playing the game with their family. It's a single player adventure game

Best family has always weirdly just kinda been "the Nintendo award"

 

Say what you will about the game but how the hell did Palworld not get nominated for anything. Game went super viral & was enjoyed alot by its community.

Also feel like Arzette was snubbed, particularly in the best art direction category.

 

Looking at the "Best Fighting Game" list and if the TGA's existed in the 90's, I am sure that there will be plenty of variety of fighting games that could had been chosen.

Whilst I will say that a new Virtua Fighter game is in the works, I think other gaming companies whether this is from Capcom, Bandai Namco, Netherealm Studios etc probably need to consider bringing new fighting game entries if they want to expand further than their current titles.

 

Say what you will about the game but how the hell did Palworld not get nominated for anything. Game went super viral & was enjoyed alot by its community.

Also feel like Arzette was snubbed, particularly in the best art direction category.

because it's popularity was fleeting

 

because it's popularity was fleeting

I mean its still doing decent at least on Steam, still within the top 100 in 24 hr peak in the 10,000s.

It was a game with a end too & where there has been updates alot of people including myself finished & may not intend to return until 1.0 or a major expansion.

Of course it wasnt going to maintain its insane popularity but still is strange to not have one of biggest gaming moments this year, even if it was just a fad, not repped at all here.

Also beta shouldnt have mattered since Multiversus got nominated for fighting goty both during beta & 1.0.

 

I mean its still doing decent at least on Steam, still within the top 100 in 24 hr peak in the 10,000s.

It was a game with a end too & where there has been updates alot of people including myself finished & may not intend to return until 1.0 or a major expansion.

Of course it wasnt going to maintain its insane popularity but still is strange to not have one of biggest gaming moments this year, even if it was just a fad, not repped at all here.

Also beta shouldnt have mattered since Multiversus got nominated for fighting goty both during beta & 1.0.

well a game which people loved because it was sticking it to the big corporations probably isn’t going to do well at award show that’s run by the big corporations