PlayStation platformer Astro Bot won big at The Game Awards 2024, winning Game of the Year and three other awards of its seven nominations. Indie card game Belataro and Persona-like JRPG Metaphor: ReFantazio won three awards each.
The 10th The Game Awards streamed this week, with over three and a half hours of awards, guest stars, musical performances, developer presenters, and big world premiere trailers.
So how did the winners line up with our few predictions? Almost perfectly! Astro Bot, Belatro, Metaphor, and Helldivers 2 were all winners, as well as Fallout for Best Adaptation on Amazon Prime, and Grant Theft Auto 6 for Most Anticipated. Our only miss was Unicorn Overlord lost to Frostpunk 2 for Best Sim/Strategy. Can’t win ’em all!
Here are the biggest winners of this year’s show:
Astro Bot
- Game of the Year
- Best Game Direction
- Best Action/Adventure Game
- Best Family Game
Belatro
- Best Independent Game
- Best Debut Indie Game
- Best Mobile Game
Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Best Narrative
- Best Art Direction
- Best RPG
Black Myth Wukong
- Best Action Game
- Player Voice
Helldivers 2
- Best Ongoing Game
- Best Multiplayer Game
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Best Audio Design
- Best Performance (Melina Juergens)
Other winners include Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth for Best Score and Music, Neva for Games for Impact, and last year’s Game of the Year winner Baldur’s Gate 3 for Best Community Support.
Astro Bot is the first Family Game to also win Game of the Year since co-op platformer It Takes Two won at the 2021 awards.
It was a big night for Sony, leading publishers with 15 nominations and winning six awards between Astro Bot and Helldivers 2. Chinese and Japanese developers also did very well this year, winning with Astro Bot (Team Asobi) Black Myth: Wukong (GameScience, including the player-voted Player Voice award), Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus), and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
This year’s show also presented the first ever Game Changer award to Amir Satvat, for helping workers in the industry find jobs after mass layoffs.
