My votes on Golden Joystick Awards 2024

Best Storytelling

Love. Revenge. Happiness. Jealousy. Camaraderie. Great stories do more than move the player from A to B. The Best Storytelling award celebrates the games that engage our emotions with deft scripting and technical brilliance.

  • Tactical Breach Wizards
    Tactical Breach Wizards

    Developer: Suspicious Developments Inc Publisher: Suspicious Developments

Best Multiplayer Game

Best Multiplayer Game celebrates the finest competitive and co-op experiences released in the last 12 months. Be they local split-screen, or massively multiplayer online experiences, these are games best-played with friends, enemies - or both.

  • The Finals
    The Finals

    Developer: Embark Studios Publisher: Embark Studios

Best Visual Design

Best Visual Design rewards technical brilliance and artistic flair. These are the games that push the limits of console or PC hardware, or that create coherent, immersive, worlds that we never want to leave, which burn bright in the memory long after we've finished playing.

  • Harold Halibut
    Harold Halibut

    Developer: Slow Bros. Publisher: Slow Bros.

Best Indie Game

Best Indie Game celebrates independent games from small-to-midsize developers spanning genres including puzzlers, tactical RPGs, adventure games, shooters… as well as those games that defy description. The best indie games unite imagination, style, and innovation with inventive, rewarding controls to reinvigorate your love of gaming.

  • Animal Well
    Animal Well

    Developer: Billy Basso Publisher: Bigmode

Best Indie Game - Self-published

Best Indie Game - Self Published is a new category for games that have been developed and published by a small team or developer. The award recognises the increasingly broad definition of 'indie' games, with a special focus on teams without the financial or technical support of a larger games publisher; and titles entering markets less well served by traditional publishing.

  • Little Kitty, Big City
    Little Kitty, Big City

    Developer: Double Dagger Studio Publisher: Double Dagger Studio

Studio of the Year

Our Studio of the Year award celebrates the development team or studio of any scale that has produced exceptional titles or updates over the last 12 months, setting the bar for technical best-practice, community management and studio culture.

  • Team ASOBI
    Team ASOBI

Best Game Expansion

Best Game Expansion recognises a major game update or DLC expansion released in the last 12 months that significantly enhances the existing game experience and deserves adulation in its own right.

  • Alan Wake 2 Expansion Pass
    Alan Wake 2 Expansion Pass

    Developer: Remedy Entertainment Publisher: Epic Games Publishing

Best Audio Design

Best Audio Design recognises games with outstanding sound design that elevate the playing experience to leave a lasting impression.

  • Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

    Developer: Ninja Theory Publisher: Xbox Game Studios

Best Lead Performer

Our Best Lead Performer award recognises the talented actors who delivered standout performances in video games over the past 12 months.

  • Melina Juergens
    Melina Juergens

    Senua, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

Best Supporting Performer

Our Best Supporting Performer award recognises the legendary thespians who delivered emphatic supporting roles in video games over the past 12 months.

  • Abbi Greenland & Helen Goalen
    Abbi Greenland & Helen Goalen

    The Furies, Senua's Saga: Hellblade II

PC Game of the Year

PC Game of the Year recognises games that were released exclusively on PC hardware - or that offered significant PC upgrades - and were released in the last 12 months.

  • Balatro
    Balatro

    Developer: LocalThunk Publisher: Playstack

Console Game of the Year

Console Game of the Year shines a spotlight on the finest PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo titles of the last 12 months, with a special focus on exclusive games from first-party and third-party studios.

  • Astro Bot
    Astro Bot

    Developer: Team Asobi Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Best Gaming Hardware

Best Gaming Hardware spans consoles, PC components, accessories, controllers and more, recognising the tech that made class-leading enhancements in the last 12 months or created new ways to play. Which piece of hardware hit that sweet spot of design, functionality and desirability for you?

  • Steam Deck OLED
    Steam Deck OLED

Best Game Trailer

Our Best Game Trailer award celebrates the impactful, technically excellent or just downright surprising trailers of the past 12 months. In the age of digital showcases, the art of the game trailer is more important than ever, and we wish to cherish it.

  • Helldivers 2 "The Fight for Freedom Begins " Launch Trailer
    Helldivers 2 "The Fight for Freedom Begins " Launch Trailer

Most Wanted Game

Most Wanted Game is one of our most-coveted awards that recognises the game that you're looking forward to playing more than any other in the next 12 months and beyond. This could be a sequel, remake or original title… any game that sets your heart racing in anticipation.

Pick your three favorite games from the list below in order of preference, your first pick being #1, second being #2 etc. Don't worry! You can scroll further down and adjust your order if you change your mind. Once happy, click 'Submit Your Answers' and you will move onto the next category.

  • #1
    DOOM: The Dark Ages
    DOOM: The Dark Ages

    Developer: id Software Publisher: Bethesda Softworks

  • #2
    Mafia: The Old Country
    Mafia: The Old Country

    Developer: Hangar 13 Publisher: 2K

  • #3
    Light No Fire
    Light No Fire

    Developer: Hello Games Publisher: Hello Games

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