Golden Joystick Awards 2024 Winners. Black Myth: Wukong Wins Most Important Award While Satisfactory Earns Major Recognition

Today we learned the winners of the Golden Joystick Awards 2024. Recall that the voting for the 42nd edition of the event officially began on October 4, and we could nominate our favorites in a total of 19 categories. A bit later, from November 4th, we could also choose a candidate for the most important trophy - Ultimate Game of the Year.

Let's start by naming the winner of this last category - the title of Ultimate Game of the Year went to Black Myth: Wukong. Interestingly, we also learned about the next four items – Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Helldivers 2, and Silent Hill 2, which took the following places.

You can watch the stream of the awards ceremony on the YouTube and Twitch platforms. Below you will find all the winners of today's ceremony.

Golden Joystick Awards 2024 - results

Ultimate Game of the Year

Winner:

1. Black Myth: Wukong

Remaining nominations:

1. Animal Well
2. Astro Bot
3. Balatro
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
5. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
6. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
7. Helldivers 2
8. Metaphor: ReFantazio
9. Satisfactory
10. Silent Hill 2
11. Tekken 8

Best Storytelling

Winner:

1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Remaining nominations:

1. Tactical Breach Wizards
2. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
3. 1000xResist
4. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
5. Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club

Best Multiplayer Game

Winner:

1. Helldivers 2

Remaining nominations:

1. Abiotic Factor
2. EA Sports College Football 25
3. Sons Of The Forest
4. Tekken 8
5. The Finals

Best Visual Design

Winner:

1. Black Myth: Wukong

Remaining nominations:

1. Astro Bot
2. Harold Halibut
3. Metaphor: ReFantazio
4. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
5. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

Best Indie Game

Winner:

1. Balatro

Remaining nominations:

1. Animal Well
2. Arco
3. Beyond Galaxyland
4. Conscript
5. Indika
6. Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
7. Thank Goodness You’re Here!
8. The Plucky Squire
9. Ultros

Best Indie Game (Self-published)

Winner:

1. Another Crab’s Treasure

Remaining nominations:

1. Arctic Eggs
2. Crow Country
3. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
4. I Am Your Beast
5. Little Kitty, Big City
6. Riven
7. Tactical Breach Wizards
8. Tiny Glade
9. UFO 50

Still Playing Award (Console & PC)

Winner:

1. Minecraft

Remaining nominations:

1. Apex Legends
2. Counter-Strike 2
3. EA Sports FC
4. Dota 2
5. Fortnite
6. GTA Online
7. Naraka: Bladepoint
8. Roblox
9. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
10. Valorant
11. Warframe

Still Playing Award (Mobile)

Winner:

1. Honkai: StarRail

Remaining nominations:

1. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
2. Free Fire
3. Roblox
4. Marvel Snap
5. Monopoly Go!
6. Mini Motorways
7. PUBG: Battlegrounds
8. Squad Busters
9. Star Wars: Hunters
10. Subway Surfers
11. The Sims Mobile

Studio of the Year

Winner:

1. Team ASOBI

Remaining nominations:

1. 11 bit studios
2. Arrowhead Game Studios
3. Capcom
4. Digital Eclipse
5. Visual Concepts

Best Game Expansion

Winner:

1. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Remaining nominations:

1. Alan Wake 2 Expansion Pass
2. Destiny 2: The Final Shape
3. Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
4. God of War: Ragnarok - Valhalla
5. World of Warcraft: The War Within

Best Audio Design

Winner:

1. Astro Bot

Remaining nominations:

1. Balatro
2. Robobeat
3. Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
4. Star Wars: Outlaws
5. Still Wakes the Deep

Best Soundtrack

Winner:

1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Remaining nominations:

1. A Highland Song
2. Astro Bot
3. Hauntii
4. Silent Hill 2
5. Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Best Lead Performer

Winner:

1. Cody Christian as Cloud Strife - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Remaining nominations:

1. Kaiji Tang as Ichiban Kasuga - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
2. Humberly Gonzalez as Kay Vess - Star Wars: Outlaws
3. Luke Roberts as James Sunderland - Silent Hill 2
4. Melina Juergens as Senua - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
5. Sonequa Martin-Green as Alvilda - Asgard's Wrath 2

Best Supporting Performer

Winner:

1. Briana White as Aerith Gainsborough - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Remaining nominations:

1. Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen as The Furies - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
2. Dawn M. Bennett as Aigis - Persona 3 Reload
3. Debra Wilson as Amanda Waller - Suicide Squad
4. Matt Berry as Herbert – Thank Goodness You're Here!
5. Neve McIntosh as Suze - Still Wakes the Deep

PC Game of the Year

Winner:

1. Satisfactory

Remaining nominations:

1. Animal Well
2. Balatro
3. Frostpunk 2
4. Tactical Breach Wizards
5. UFO 50

Console Game of the Year

Winner:

1. Helldivers 2

Remaining nominations:

1. Astro Bot
2. Dragon's Dogma 2
3. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
4. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
5. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Best Early Access Game

Winner:

1. Lethal Company

Remaining nominations:

1. Enshrouded
2. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
3. Hades II
4. Manor Lords
5. Palworld

Best Gaming Hardware

Winner:

1. Steam Deck OLED

Remaining nominations:

1. Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024)
2. Backbone One (2nd Gen)
3. LG UltraGear 32GS95UE
4. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super
5. Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra

Best Game Trailer

Winner:

1. Helldivers 2 - "The Fight for Freedom Begins" Trailer

Remaining nominations:

1. Caravan Sandwitch – Premiere Trailer
2. Death Stranding 2 On The Beach – State of Play Show Preview
3. Kingmakers - Preview
4. Sid Meier's Civilization VII - Narrator Reveal Trailer
5. The Plucky Squire – Premiere Trailer

Most Wanted Game

Winner:

1. Grand Theft Auto VI

Remaining nominations:

1. Atomfall
2. Assassin's Creed: Shadows
3. Sid Meier's Civilization VII
4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
5. Deadlock
6. Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
7. Doom: The Dark Ages
8. Exodus
9. Fable
10. Ghost of Yotei
11. Hollow Knight: Silksong
12. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
13. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
14. Light No Fire
15. Mafia: The Old Country
16. Monster Hunter Wilds
17. skate.
18. Slay the Spire 2
19. South of Midnight

Best Game Adaptation

Winner:

1. Fallout

Remaining nominations:

1. Tomb Raider: Legend of Lara Croft
2. Like a Dragon: Yakuza
3. Hello (2 season)
4. Borderlands
5. Knuckles

Black Myth: Wukong

August 20, 2024

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