Golden Joystick Awards 2024 Winners. Black Myth: Wukong Wins Most Important Award While Satisfactory Earns Major Recognition
The 2024 Golden Joystick Awards are behind us, and we've learned the winners of all 19 categories and the Ultimate Game of the Year winner.
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:
Remaining nominations:
- Animal Well
- Astro Bot
- Balatro
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Helldivers 2
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Satisfactory
- Silent Hill 2
- Tekken 8
Best Storytelling
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
- Tactical Breach Wizards
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- 1000xResist
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- Emio: The Smiling Man - Famicom Detective Club
Best Multiplayer Game
Winner:
- Helldivers 2
Remaining nominations:
Best Visual Design
Winner:
- Black Myth: Wukong
Remaining nominations:
- Astro Bot
- Harold Halibut
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
Best Indie Game
Winner:
- Balatro
Remaining nominations:
- Animal Well
- Arco
- Beyond Galaxyland
- Conscript
- Indika
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- Thank Goodness You’re Here!
- The Plucky Squire
- Ultros
Best Indie Game (Self-published)
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
- Arctic Eggs
- Crow Country
- Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
- I Am Your Beast
- Little Kitty, Big City
- Riven
- Tactical Breach Wizards
- Tiny Glade
- UFO 50
Still Playing Award (Console & PC)
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
- Apex Legends
- Counter-Strike 2
- EA Sports FC
- Dota 2
- Fortnite
- GTA Online
- Naraka: Bladepoint
- Roblox
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- Valorant
- Warframe
Still Playing Award (Mobile)
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
- Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile
- Free Fire
- Roblox
- Marvel Snap
- Monopoly Go!
- Mini Motorways
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Squad Busters
- Star Wars: Hunters
- Subway Surfers
- The Sims Mobile
Studio of the Year
Winner:
- Team ASOBI
Remaining nominations:
- 11 bit studios
- Arrowhead Game Studios
- Capcom
- Digital Eclipse
- Visual Concepts
Best Game Expansion
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
- Alan Wake 2 Expansion Pass
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape
- Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
- God of War: Ragnarok - Valhalla
- World of Warcraft: The War Within
Best Audio Design
Winner:
- Astro Bot
Remaining nominations:
- Balatro
- Robobeat
- Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
- Star Wars: Outlaws
- Still Wakes the Deep
Best Soundtrack
Winner:
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Remaining nominations:
- A Highland Song
- Astro Bot
- Hauntii
- Silent Hill 2
- Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Best Lead Performer
Winner:
- Cody Christian as Cloud Strife - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Remaining nominations:
- Kaiji Tang as Ichiban Kasuga - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Humberly Gonzalez as Kay Vess - Star Wars: Outlaws
- Luke Roberts as James Sunderland - Silent Hill 2
- Melina Juergens as Senua - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
- Sonequa Martin-Green as Alvilda - Asgard's Wrath 2
Best Supporting Performer
Winner:
- Briana White as Aerith Gainsborough - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Remaining nominations:
- Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen as The Furies - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
- Dawn M. Bennett as Aigis - Persona 3 Reload
- Debra Wilson as Amanda Waller - Suicide Squad
- Matt Berry as Herbert – Thank Goodness You're Here!
- Neve McIntosh as Suze - Still Wakes the Deep
PC Game of the Year
Winner:
- Satisfactory
Remaining nominations:
- Animal Well
- Balatro
- Frostpunk 2
- Tactical Breach Wizards
- UFO 50
Console Game of the Year
Winner:
- Helldivers 2
Remaining nominations:
- Astro Bot
- Dragon's Dogma 2
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Best Early Access Game
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
Best Gaming Hardware
Winner:
- Steam Deck OLED
Remaining nominations:
- Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024)
- Backbone One (2nd Gen)
- LG UltraGear 32GS95UE
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super
- Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra
Best Game Trailer
Winner:
- Helldivers 2 - "The Fight for Freedom Begins" Trailer
Remaining nominations:
- Caravan Sandwitch – Premiere Trailer
- Death Stranding 2 On The Beach – State of Play Show Preview
- Kingmakers - Preview
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII - Narrator Reveal Trailer
- The Plucky Squire – Premiere Trailer
Most Wanted Game
Winner:
Remaining nominations:
- Atomfall
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows
- Sid Meier's Civilization VII
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Deadlock
- Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
- Doom: The Dark Ages
- Exodus
- Fable
- Ghost of Yotei
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
- Light No Fire
- Mafia: The Old Country
- Monster Hunter Wilds
- skate.
- Slay the Spire 2
- South of Midnight
Best Game Adaptation
Winner:
- Fallout
Remaining nominations:
- Tomb Raider: Legend of Lara Croft
- Like a Dragon: Yakuza
- Hello (2 season)
- Borderlands
- Knuckles