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The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Announced
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The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Announced

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Check out our roundup to see if your favorites made the cut.

Posted 21 days ago

The Game Awards will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2024 with its yearly ceremony being held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles December 12, 2024. There, the best of the best video games of the year will be recognized across a variety of categories, ranging from “Best Art Direction” and “Innovation in Accessibility” to “Best Narrative” and, of course, “Game of the Year.”

Here’s the full list of nominees for this year’s Game Awards. Fans can vote for their favorites by creating an account on the Awards’ website. Round 1 of Player’s Voice voting will open December 2.

Throughout the list below, you’ll find boxes for each of the Game of the Year nominees. Clicking the links in each box will allow you to learn more about the games and/or purchase or pre-order them directly at Walmart (Restart's sponsor). We’ve also linked some of the stories we’ve previously written about the Game Awards nominees throughout this list for your reading pleasure.

Astro Bot key art featuring a robot, aliens and a PS5 in a desert dune.

Astro Bot

Release Date: September 6, 2024

ESRB Rating Everyone 10+

Game of the Year Nominees

Best Game Direction

  • Astro Bot
  • Balatro
  • Black Myth: Wukong
  • Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Metaphor: ReFantazio

Best Narrative

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

Best Art Direction

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

Best Score and Music

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

Best Audio Design

Best 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 2

Innovation in Accessibility

Games for Impact

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

Best Ongoing

Best Community Support

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

Best Independent Game

Best Debut Indie Game

Best Mobile Game

Best VR/AR

Best Action Game

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

Best Action/Adventure

Best RPG

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

Best Fighting

The main cast from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on the edge looking toward a large mountain range in the distance

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Release Date: February 29, 2024

ESRB Rating Teen

Best Family

Best Sim/Strategy

Best Sports/Racing

Best Multiplayer

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

Best Adaptation

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

Most Anticipated Game

Content Creator of the Year

  • CaseOh
  • IlloJuan
  • Techno Gamerz
  • Typical Gamer
  • Usada Pekora

Best Esports Games

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

Best Esports Athlete

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

Best Esports Team

  • Bilibili Gaming - League of Legends
  • Gen.G - League of the Legends
  • NAVI - Counter-Strike
  • T1 - League of Legends
  • Team Liquid - Dota 2