The Game Awards 2024 winners announced

Game of the Year

Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.

Best Game Direction

Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.

• ASTRO BOT (Team ASOBI / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / ATLUS)

Best Narrative

For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.

Best Art Direction

For outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

• ASTRO BOT (Team ASOBI / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / ATLUS)
• Neva (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)

Best Score and Music

For outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song and/or licensed soundtrack.

• ASTRO BOT (Team ASOBI / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / ATLUS)
• Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team / Konami Digital Entertainment)
• Stellar Blade (SHIFT UP / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Audio Design

Recognizing the best in-game audio and sound design.

• ASTRO BOT (Team ASOBI / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch / Activision)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
• Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory / Xbox Game Studios)
• Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team / Konami Digital Entertainment)

Best Performance

Awarded to an individual for voice-over acting, motion and/or performance capture.

Innovation in Accessibility

Recognizing software and / or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience.

Games for Impact

For a thought-provoking game with a pro-social meaning or message.

Best Ongoing Game

Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time.

Best Community Support

Recognizing a game for outstanding community support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates / patches.

Best Independent Game

For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.

Best Debut Indie Game

For the best debut game created by a new independent studio.

Best Mobile Game

For the best game playable on a mobile device.

Best Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality

For the best game experience playable in virtual or augmented reality, irrespective of platform.

Best Action Game

For the best game in the action genre focused primarily on combat.

Best Action / Adventure

For the best action / adventure game, combining combat with traversal and puzzle solving.

• ASTRO BOT (Team ASOBI / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo)
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Ubisoft Monptellier / Ubisoft)
• Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team / Konami Digital Entertainment)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Massive Entertainment / Ubisoft)

Best Role-Playing

For the best game designed with rich player character customization and progression, including massively multiplayer experiences.

• Dragon’s Dogma II (Capcom)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio / SEGA)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / ATLUS)

Best Fighting

For the best game designed primarily around head-to-head combat.

Best Family

For the best game appropriate for family play, irrespective of genre or platform.

Best Simulation / Strategy

Best game focused on real time or turn-based simulation or strategy gameplay, irrespective of platform.

Best Sports / Racing

For the best traditional and non-traditional sports and racing game.

Best Multiplayer

For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences, irrespective of game genre or platform.

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch / Activision)
• Helldivers II (Arrowhead Game Studios / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
• Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintend0)
• Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II (Saber Interactive / Focus Entertainment)

Best Adaptation

Recognizing outstanding creative work that faithfully and authentically adapts a video game to another entertainment medium.

• Arcane (Riot / Fortiche / Netflix)
• Fallout (Bethesdas Softworks / Kitler Films / Amazon MGM Studios)
• Knuckles (SEGA / Paramount)
• Like a Dragon: Yakuza (SEGA / Amazon MGM Studios)
• Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Crystal Dynamics / Legendary / Netflix)

Most Anticipated Game

Recognizing an announced game that has demonstrably illustrated potential to push the gaming medium forward.

Content Creator of the Year

For a streamer or content creator who has made an important and positive impact on the community in 2021.

• CaseOh
• Illojuan
• Techno Gamers
• TypicalGamer
• Usada Pekora

Best eSports Game

For the game that has delivered the best overall esports experience to players (inclusive of tournaments, community support and content updates), irrespective of genre or platform.

Best eSports Athlete

The eSports athlete judged to be the most outstanding for performance and conduct in 2021, irrespective of game.

• 33 (Neta Shapira)
• Aleksib (Aleksi Virolainen)
• Chovy (Jeong Ji-hoon)
• Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok)
• ZyWoO (Mathieu Herbaut)
• ZmjjKk (Zheng Yongkang)

Best eSports Team

Recognizing a specific eSports team (not the full organization) judged the most outstanding for performance and conduct in 2021.

• Bilibili Gaming (League of Legends)
• Gen.G (League of Legends)
• Navi (Counter-Strike 2)
• T1 (League of Legends)
• Team Liquid (Dota 2)

Player’s Voice

• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
• Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)
• Zenless Zone Zero (miHoYo)