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Forums - Gaming Discussion - VGChartz Official Game of the Year Awards 2024 - Results Thread

Machina on 05 January 2025

Hey everyone. We've started posting the results of the site's 18th annual Game of the Year Awards.

Starting today, we'll be posting 2-3 a day until the winners (and runners-up) of all categories are revealed. I'll link to each one with a post in this thread (often with some interesting stats from the voting process) and also collect them together in this OP, so you can easily find them all.

This year's articles:

FAQs:

Q – How is the winner in each category determined?
A – By a mixture of community and staff voting, weighted 50/50. On the community side we used a Google Form that was posted in an article on the front page, a highlighted thread, and posted on our social media channels. On the staff side we vote individually on the staff forums. The average of the two determines both the final Shortlist of games to be featured in each award article and the Winners themselves.

Q - I didn't get chance to vote - is it too late?
A - I'm afraid so. Final voting opened on 14th Dec and closed on 27th Dec.

Q - Why did game xxxxx win Best Action/Adventure Game but not Best Action Game?
A - Games are only ever able to win (and be nominated for) one genre award, to prevent a single game sweeping half a dozen categories (yes, that used to happen in the early days). Sometimes it's hard to pick just one genre for a game but we think this is preferable to genre category sweeps.

Q - Why do you spoil the results on the front page with the banner?
A - The banner only really reveals that the game in question made the Shortlist; it's not a guarantee it won the award. On average the banner image will only feature the winner about 20-25% of the time.

Previous Overall Winners
   


The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
  


Elden Ring
  


Metroid Dread
  


The Last of Us Part II
  


Resident Evil 2
 


God of War
 


The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
 


Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
 


Rocket League
 


Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
  


Super Mario 3D World
  


Journey
  


The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  


Mass Effect 2
 


Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
 


LittleBigPlanet
 


BioShock

Last edited by Machina - on 21 January 2025

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Machina on 05 January 2025

We kick things off with Best Platformer of 2024. On the user side of things it might surprise you to learn that this was NOT the most one-sided genre result of the year. But the combined vote did make it that: the winner got just shy of 75% of the combined vote.



Machina on 05 January 2025

Best Shooter of 2024

While one might have expected a complete blowout in this category given the incredibly high saliency for one particular game in 2024, the vote wasn’t too one-sided thanks to a late charge by the eventual runner up. Just 14% of the combined vote separated the two games.



Machina on 06 January 2025

Best Fighting Game of 2024

There might as well have been only two games on this particular shortlist: between them the winner and runner-up got almost 95% of the vote. And the winner got more than double the vote share of the runner-up too.



Machina on 06 January 2025

Best Action Game of 2024

Now THIS was the most one-sided result on the user side of things. The winner got 72.2% of the user vote - the most of any game in any category this year - with the runner-up managing just 10.8%. The staff vote did tighten things slightly, but it was still a blowout victory.



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Machina on 07 January 2025

Best Adventure Game of 2024

With no obvious big-name title this was an interesting category to follow as the results came in. Reflecting that, the final vote shares were quite close: first place managed just over 27%, runner-up just shy of 25%, and even third place almost got a fifth of the vote.



Machina on 08 January 2025

Best Action/Adventure Game of 2024

 

Spoiler!
A Zelda game released this year. End of the competition, right? Well, yeah, pretty much; it was always ahead and never really threatened, but the other titles in this category picked up a healthy number of votes too: one managed over a quarter of the final vote and another a fifth.

 



coolbeans on 08 January 2025

I wonder how Indy would've fared if given more time.



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Machina on 08 January 2025

Best Strategy Game of 2024

A fairly close result: the winner got 34.68%, compared the runner-up’s 28.05%. Even third place managed a respectable quarter of the vote.



Machina on 09 January 2025

Best Simulation Game of 2024

This is probably where the user and staff vote diverged most this year. Users heavily favoured the eventual winner (it got 37.2% of the user vote, vs just 6.3% for the runner-up). Staff heavily favoured the runner-up (it got 50% of the staff vote, vs 19.23% for the ultimate winner). The user vote was enough to give the winner an extremely narrow 0.065% margin if victory.