The Game Awards 2024 nominees have been revealed, and there's ...
Posted on November 19, 2024
Geoff Keighley, you’ve done it again. The Game Awards 2024 is just a few weeks away, and we expect it to have big announcements, exciting reveals and a healthy dose of Kojima. It also might even feature some video game awards (TBC).
Even so, The Game Awards have released their list of nominations for this year, and as always is a hot topic for debate. Notably, the nominations for Game of the Year include a DLC for the very first time; Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. The news broke over the weekend that The Game Awards would be open to having a DLC across all categories, and unsurprisingly, the expansion to the former winner of Game of the Year 2022 is officially in the mix, alongside Astro Bot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Metaphor ReFantazio, Blayk Myth: Wukong and indie darling Balatro.
Astro Bot and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth came away with seven nominations each, while Metaphor: ReFantazio has six, and Balatro and Silent Hill 2 get five a piece. In other categories, it’s great to see Aussie indie The Plucky Squire in the mix for Best Debut Indie and Best Family Game, while Best Performance is full of wonderful options, including Luke Roberts, for his take on James in Silent Hill 2, and Melina Juergens, who did some incredibly heavy lifting with the intensity of Senua in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.
Circling back for a moment, Black Myth Wukong is another controversial entry in the Game of the Year stakes; while seemingly loved by certain fans online, the game itself only has a Metacritic score of 81, making it look like an imposter amongst the other GOTY nominees that all registered in the mid-90s. Not to mention prior news of sexually explicit comments by the CEO of Game Science, underscoring a wider problem in the gaming industry that is seemingly being ignored here. With both Black Myth and Elden Ring being in the mix for an award they probably don’t deserve, it does seem like the “Geoff and his mates” popularity contest is in full force.
And annoyingly, we’ll all watch it, waiting for the next World Premier, the next random kid to jump on the stage, the next strange celebrity tie-in because they have a movie coming out soon, and whatever other drama unfolds on the biggest video game stage in the industry.
Here’s the full list of nominees for The Game Awards 2024:
GAME OF THE YEAR
Astro Bot Balatro Black Myth: Wukong Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Metaphor: ReFantazioBEST GAME DIRECTION
Astro Bot Balatro Black Myth: Wukong Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Metaphor: ReFantazioBEST NARRATIVE
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Metaphor: ReFantanzio Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Silent Hill 2BEST ART DIRECTION
Astro Bot Black Myth: Wukong Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Metaphor: ReFantazio NevaBEST SCORE AND MUSIC
Astro Bot Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Metaphor: ReFantazio Silent Hill 2 Stellar BladeBEST AUDIO DESIGN
Astro Bot Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 Silent Hill 2BEST PERFORMANCE
Briana White, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Hannah Telle, Life is Strange: Double Exposure Humberly González, Star Wars Outlaws Luke Roberts, Silent Hill 2 Melina Juergens, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2INNOVATION IN ACCESSIBILITY
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Diablo 4 Dragon Age: The Veilguard Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Star Wars OutlawsGAMES FOR IMPACT
Closer the Distance Indika Neva Life is Strange: Double Exposure Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Tales of Kenzera: ZauBEST ONGOING
Destiny 2 Diablo 4 Final Fantasy XIV Fortnite Helldivers 2BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT
Baldur’s Gate 3 Final Fantasy XIV Fortnite Helldivers 2 No Man’s SkyBEST INDEPENDENT GAME
Animal Well Balatro Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Neva UFO 50BEST DEBUT INDIE GAME
Animal Well Balatro Manor Lords Pacific Drive The Plucky SquireBEST MOBILE GAME
AFK Journey Balatro Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket Wuthering Waves Zenless Zone ZeroBEST VR/AR
Arizona Sunshine Remake Asgard’s Wrath 2 Batman: Arkham Shadow Metal: Hellsinger VR Metro AwakeningBEST ACTION GAME
Black Myth: Wukong Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Helldivers 2 Stellar Blade Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME
Astro Bot Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Silent Hill 2 Star Wars Outlaws The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of WisdomBEST RPG
Dragon’s Dogma 2 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Metaphor: ReFantazioBEST FIGHTING
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics MultiVersus Tekken 8BEST FAMILY
Astro Bot Princess Peach: Showtime! Super Mario Party Jamboree The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom The Plucky SquireBEST SIM / STRATEGY
Age of Mythology: Retold Frostpunk 2 Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Manor Lords Unicorn OverlordBEST SPORTS / RACING
F1 24 EA Sports FC 25 NBA 2K25 Top Spin 2K25 WWE 2K24BEST MULTIPLAYER
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Helldivers 2 Super Mario Party Jamboree Tekken 8 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2BEST ADAPTATION
Arcane Fallout Knuckles Like a Dragon: Yakuza Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara CroftMOST ANTICIPATED GAME
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Ghost of Yōtei Grand Theft Auto 6 Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Monster Hunter WildsCONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR
CaseOh IlloJuan Techo Gamerz TypicalGamer Usada PekoraBEST ESPORTS GAME
Counter-Strike 2 DOTA 2 League of Legends Mobile Legends: Bang Bang ValorantBEST ESPORTS ATHLETE
33 – Neta Shapira Aleksib – Aleksi Virolainen Chovy – Jeong Ji-hoon Faker – Lee Sang-hyeok ZyWoO – Mathieu Herbaut ZmjjKk – Zheng YongkangBEST ESPORTS TEAM
Bilibili Gaming (League of Legends) Gen.G (League of Legends) NAVI (Counter-Strike) T1 (League of Legends) Team Liquid (DOTA 2)The Game Awards 2024 will take place on December 12 (for Australia, that’s Friday, December 13, 11:30am – 3:00pm (AEDT).
