2024 GOTY Scoreboard: In Progress

People who focus on the business side of games predicted that 2024 would see fewer AAA releases than 2023 and more layoffs throughout the industry. Sadly, they were right on both counts. It’s rough out there for people who make games.

But the dour cloud that’s currently hanging over the industry is all the more reason to celebrate the developers that did great work last year.

Astro Bot has currently collected the most “Game of the Year” hardware since the end of the year (including at The Game Awards, the only major statuette to be awarded so far), but a dozen other games have been with at least one “Game of the Year” accolade. That cohort includes LocalThunk’s Balatro, Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, MachineGames’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Atlus’s Metaphor: ReFantazio.

We’re still waiting on results from the New York Game Awards (January 21st), the DICE Awards (February 13th), the GDC Awards (March 19th), BAFTA Games Awards (April 8th), and a few others. But you can find all the games fighting for 2024’s “Game of the Year” honors after the break.

Astro Bot

Balatro

Black Myth: Wukong

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

College Football 25

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dragon’s Dogma II

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Helldivers II

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Metaphor: ReFantazio

Silent Hill 2

UFO 50

Unranked Lists

 
More “Game of the Year” lists from 2024 will be added as I find them (or as they happen), but here is a pretty good overview of what’s been honored by critics and players so far:

2024 GOTY Scoreboard (Expand)