The Game Awards 2024 nominees could end up with a two-time winner

Get acceptable to cheer and groan astatine the afloat database of nominees for this year’s The Game Awards, with 2 games successful peculiar poised to instrumentality location 7 trophies.

This evening, Geoff Keighley took to social media to unveil the nominees for The Game Awards 2024, which are scheduled to instrumentality spot successful the aboriginal hours of Friday, December 13.

Somewhat surprisingly, Elden Ring could erstwhile again bargain the amusement this year. Despite already claiming Game of the Year successful 2022, it’s been nominated erstwhile again acknowledgment to the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC, and is besides up for Best Game Direction and Best Art Direction.

The Game Awards already updated its website a mates of days ago, to accidental DLC could beryllium eligible for nominations successful immoderate categories. So, expect that to beryllium astatine the centre of this year’s discourse.

However, 2 different games are starring the complaint successful presumption of nominations. Both Sony’s Astro Bot and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth boast 7 nominations each, which includes Game of the Year for both.

Balatro besides deservedly snagged a Game of the Year nomination, on with the fantabulous Metaphor: ReFantazio and the somewhat little deserving Black Myth: Wukong.

You tin find the afloat database of categories and nominees below. While we volition beryllium portion of the judging sheet this year, you tin formed your ain votes for each class connected The Game Awards website.

Nominees for the Player’s Voice award, which is determined wholly by a nationalist vote, volition beryllium shared connected December 2.

Game of the Year

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)
Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)

Best Game Direction

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)
Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)

Best Narrative

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega)
Metaphor: ReFantanzio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios)
Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team/Konami)

Best Art Direction

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)
Neva (Nomada Studio/Devolver)

Best Score and Music

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)
Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team/Konami)
Stellar Blade (Shift Up/SIE)

Best Audio Design

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 (Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios)
Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team/Konami)

Best Performance

Briana White, Aerith Gainsborough successful Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Hannah Telle, Max Caulfield successful Life Is Strange: Double Exposure
Humberly González, Kay Vess successful Star Wars Outlaws
Luke Roberts, James Sunderland successful Silent Hill 2
Melina Juergens, Senua successful Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II

Innovation successful Accessibility

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)
Diablo IV (Blizzard/Xbox)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare/EA)
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)
Star Wars Outlaws (Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft)

Games for Impact

Closer The Distance (Osmotic Studios/Skybound Games)
Indika (Odd Meter/11 Bit Studios)
Life Is Strange: Double Exposure (Deck Nine/Square Enix)
Neva (Nomada Studio/Devolver)
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (Ninja Theory/Xbox Game Studios)
Tales Of Kenzera: Zau (Surgent Studios/EA)

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2 (Bungie/SIE)
Diablo IV (Blizzard/Xbox)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios/SIE)

Best Community Support

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios/SIE)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Independent Game

Animal Well (Shared Memory/Bigmode)
Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)
Lorelei And The Laser Eyes (Simogo/Annapurna Interactive)
Neva (Nomada Studio/Devolver)
UFO 50 (Mossmouth)

Best Debut Indie Game

Animal Well (Shared Memory/Bigmode)
Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)
Manor Lords (Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse)
Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios/Kepler Interactive)
The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures/Devolver)

Best Mobile Game

AFK Journey (FARLIGHT/Lilith Games)
Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack)
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket (Creatures Inc/TPCI)
Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)
Zenless Zone Zero (miHoYo)

Best VR/AR Game

Arizona Sunshine Remake (Vertigo Games)
Asgard’s Wrath 2 (Sanzaru Games/Oculus Studios)
Batman: Arkham Shadow (Camouflaj/Oculus Studios)
Metal: Hellsinger VR (Lab 42/The Outsiders/Funcom)
Metro Awakening (Vertigo Games)

Best Action Game 

Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)
Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios/SIE)
Stellar Blade (Shift Up/SIE)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)
Silent Hill 2 (Bloober Team/Konami)
Star Wars Outlaws (Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft)
The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom (Grezzo/Nintendo)

Best Role-Playing Game

Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Capcom)
Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega)
Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega)

Best Fighting Game

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO (Spike Chunsoft/Bandai Namco)
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Arc System Works/Cygames)
Marvel Vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (Capcom)
MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco)

Best Family Game

Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE)
Princess Peach: Showtime! (Good-Feel/Nintendo)
Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo Cube/Nintendo)
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Grezzo/Nintendo)
The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures/Devolver)

Best Sim/Strategy Game

Age Of Mythology: Retold (World’s Edge/Forgotten Empires/Xbox Game Studios)
Frostpunk 2 (11 Bit Studios)
Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess (Capcom)
Manor Lords (Slavic Magic/Hooded Horse)
Unicorn Overlord (Vanillaware/Sega/Atlus)

Best Sports/Racing Game

EA Sports FC 25 (EA Vancouver/EA Romania/EA Sports)
F1 24 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
NBA 2K25 (Visual Concepts/2K)
Top Spin 2K25 (Hangar 13/2K)
WWE 2K24 (Visual Concepts/2K)

Best Multiplayer Game

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Treyarch/Raven/Activision/Xbox)
Helldivers 2 (Arrow Game Studios/SIE)
Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo Cube/Nintendo)
Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Saber Interactive/Focus Entertainment)

Best Adaptation

Arcane (Riot/Fortiche/Netflix) 
Fallout (Bethesda/Kilter Films/Amazon MGM Studios)
Knuckles (Sega/Paramount)
Like a Dragon: Yakuza (Sega/Amazon MGM Studios)
Tomb Raider: The Legend Of Lara Croft (Crystal Dynamics/Legendary/Netflix)

Most Anticipated Game

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Kojima Productions/SIE)
Ghost Of Yōtei (Sucker Punch Productions/SIE)
Grand Theft Auto VI (Rockstar Games)
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Retro Studios/Nintendo)
Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom)

Content Creator of the Year

CaseOh
IlloJuan 
Techno Gamerz
TypicalGamer
Usada Pekora

Best Esports Game

Counter-Strike 2 (Valve)
DOTA 2 (Valve)
League Of Legends (Riot Games)
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (Moonton)
Valorant (Riot Games)

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 Legends)
NAVI (Counter-Strike)
T1 (League Of Legends)
Team Liquid (DOTA 2)

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