My Personal Game/Steam Awards (2024)
8 months ago
Complete with winners and nominations.
Not all categories are listed, such as "Games for Impact".
Omitted 'Best Performance' since 2 separate actors were
credited for the lead roles, Niko and Luna, in "Nikoderiko".
SIDE NOTE: Heavily biased in nominations,
as the majority are basically indie games.
Winners are highlighted in bold.
== My Personal Game Awards 2024 ==
Game of the Year
-- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
- On Your Tail (Memorable Games / Humble Games)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
Best Game Direction
-- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- On Your Tail (Memorable Games / Humble Games)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Zenless Zone Zero (MiHoYo)
Best Narrative
-- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Nine Sols (Red Candle Games)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Best Art Direction
-- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Nine Sols (Red Candle Games)
Best Score and Music
-- William Sahl (Gori: Cuddly Carnage)
- AMetz and Deadman Dustler (Critter Cove)
- David Wise (Nikoderiko: The Magical World)
- Jianan Wang and Bridge Ren (Anomaly Collapse)
- Moisés Camargo and Manami Kiyota (Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus)
Best Audio Design
-- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Animal Well (Shared Memory / Bigmode)
- Critter Cove (Gentleman Rat Studios)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
Best Independent Game
-- Palworld (Pocketpair)
- Animal Well (Shared Memory / Bigmode)
- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Critter Cove (Gentleman Rat Studios)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
Best Debut Indie Game
-- The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures / Devolver Digital)
- Animal Well (Shared Memory / Bigmode)
- Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack )
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
- Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios / Kepler Interactive)
Best Ongoing Game
-- BROK The Investigator (CowCat Games)
- Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)
- Pawperty Damage (Dare Looks)
Best Community Support
-- Dare Looks (Pawperty Damage)
- CowCat Games (BROK The InvestiGator)
- Epic Games (Fortnite)
- Massive Monster / Devolver Digital (Cult of the Lamb)
- MiHoYo (Genshin Impact)
Best Mobile Game
-- Zenless Zone Zero (miHoYo)
- AFK Journey (Lilith Games / Farlight)
- Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack )
- Girls Frontline 2: Exilium (Mica Team)
- Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)
Best VR / AR Game
-- Metro Awakening (Vertigo Games / Deep Silver)
- Blade and Sorcery (Warp Frog Studios)
- Bootstrap Island (Maru Productions)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (Scott Cawthon)
- Soul Covenant (Thirdverse Co., Ltd.)
Best Action Game
-- Zenless Zone Zero (MiHoYo)
- Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Dungeons of Hinterberg (Microbird Games / Curve Games)
- Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Action / Adventure Game
-- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Machine Games / Bethesda Software)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Sonic x Shadow Generations (Sonic Team / Sega)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Best Role-Playing Game (RPG)
-- Zenless Zone Zero (MiHoYo)
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (R&B Studios / 505 Games)
- Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth (S.E. Creative / Square Enix)
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink (Cygames)
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / Sega )
Best Fighting Game
-- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Marvel Rivals (NetEase Games)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- WWE 2K24 (Visual Concepts / 2K)
Best Family Game
-- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
- The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures / Devolver Digital)
- Princess Peach: Showtime! (Good-Feel / Nintendo)
Best Sim / Strategy Game
-- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Rabbit & Bear Studios / 505 Games)
- Inkbound (Shiny Shoe Studios)
- Rogue Waters (Ice Code Games / Tripwire Presents)
- Zephon (Proxy Studios)
Best Multiplayer Game
-- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Enshrouded (Keen Games)
- Marvel Rivals (NetEase Games)
- Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Most Anticipated Game
-- Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade (7Quark / Game Source Entertainment)
- Everhood 2 (Nordgren and Roca / Gnome Games)
- Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact (Eighting / Bushiroad Games)
- Little Nightmares 3 (Supermassive Games / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Mio: Memories in Orbit (Douze Dixièmes / Focus Entertainment)
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== My Personal Steam Awards 2024 ==
Game of the Year
-- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Mercury Abbey (YiTi Games / Gamera Games)
VR Game of the Year
-- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (Scott Cawthon)
- Blade and Sorcery (Warp Frog Studios)
- Bootstrap Island (Maru Productions)
- Soul Covenant (Thirdverse Co., Ltd.)
- Spectral Scream (Stoic Entertainment)
Labor of Love
-- Massive Monster / Devolver Digital (Cult of the Lamb)
- CowCat Games (BROK The InvestiGator)
- Dare Looks (Pawperty Damage)
- Epic Games (Fortnite)
- MiHoYo (Genshin Impact)
Better With Friends
-- Palworld (Pocketpair)
- Atlyss (Kiseff / KisSoft)
- Liar's Bar (Curve Animation)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Sons of the Forest (Endnight Games)
Outstanding Visual Style
-- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Best Game You Suck At
-- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco Entertainment )
- Frostpunk 2 (11 Bit Studios)
- Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Best Soundtrack
-- David Wise (Nikoderiko: The Magical World)
- Moisés Camargo and Manami Kiyota (Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus)
- William Sahl (Gori: Cuddly Carnage)
- ResoForce and FlashyGoodness (Rivals of Aether II)
- Ippo Yamada (Umbraclaw)
Outstanding Story-Rich Game
-- Mercury Abbey (YiTi Games / Gamera Games)
- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Finding Frankie (Super Lou Games)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Sit Back and Relax
-- Critter Cove (Gentleman Rat Studios)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
- On Your Tail (Memorable Games / Humble Games)
- T.C.G. Card Shop Simulator (OPNeon Games)
- Webfishing (LameDeveloper)
Not all categories are listed, such as "Games for Impact".
Omitted 'Best Performance' since 2 separate actors were
credited for the lead roles, Niko and Luna, in "Nikoderiko".
SIDE NOTE: Heavily biased in nominations,
as the majority are basically indie games.
Winners are highlighted in bold.
== My Personal Game Awards 2024 ==
Game of the Year
-- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
- On Your Tail (Memorable Games / Humble Games)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
Best Game Direction
-- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- On Your Tail (Memorable Games / Humble Games)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Zenless Zone Zero (MiHoYo)
Best Narrative
-- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Nine Sols (Red Candle Games)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Best Art Direction
-- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Nine Sols (Red Candle Games)
Best Score and Music
-- William Sahl (Gori: Cuddly Carnage)
- AMetz and Deadman Dustler (Critter Cove)
- David Wise (Nikoderiko: The Magical World)
- Jianan Wang and Bridge Ren (Anomaly Collapse)
- Moisés Camargo and Manami Kiyota (Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus)
Best Audio Design
-- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Animal Well (Shared Memory / Bigmode)
- Critter Cove (Gentleman Rat Studios)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
Best Independent Game
-- Palworld (Pocketpair)
- Animal Well (Shared Memory / Bigmode)
- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Critter Cove (Gentleman Rat Studios)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
Best Debut Indie Game
-- The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures / Devolver Digital)
- Animal Well (Shared Memory / Bigmode)
- Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack )
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
- Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios / Kepler Interactive)
Best Ongoing Game
-- BROK The Investigator (CowCat Games)
- Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- Genshin Impact (MiHoYo)
- Pawperty Damage (Dare Looks)
Best Community Support
-- Dare Looks (Pawperty Damage)
- CowCat Games (BROK The InvestiGator)
- Epic Games (Fortnite)
- Massive Monster / Devolver Digital (Cult of the Lamb)
- MiHoYo (Genshin Impact)
Best Mobile Game
-- Zenless Zone Zero (miHoYo)
- AFK Journey (Lilith Games / Farlight)
- Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack )
- Girls Frontline 2: Exilium (Mica Team)
- Wuthering Waves (Kuro Games)
Best VR / AR Game
-- Metro Awakening (Vertigo Games / Deep Silver)
- Blade and Sorcery (Warp Frog Studios)
- Bootstrap Island (Maru Productions)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (Scott Cawthon)
- Soul Covenant (Thirdverse Co., Ltd.)
Best Action Game
-- Zenless Zone Zero (MiHoYo)
- Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Dungeons of Hinterberg (Microbird Games / Curve Games)
- Helldivers 2 (Arrowhead Game Studios / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Action / Adventure Game
-- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Machine Games / Bethesda Software)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Sonic x Shadow Generations (Sonic Team / Sega)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Best Role-Playing Game (RPG)
-- Zenless Zone Zero (MiHoYo)
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (R&B Studios / 505 Games)
- Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth (S.E. Creative / Square Enix)
- Granblue Fantasy: Relink (Cygames)
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / Sega )
Best Fighting Game
-- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Marvel Rivals (NetEase Games)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- WWE 2K24 (Visual Concepts / 2K)
Best Family Game
-- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
- The Plucky Squire (All Possible Futures / Devolver Digital)
- Princess Peach: Showtime! (Good-Feel / Nintendo)
Best Sim / Strategy Game
-- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes (Rabbit & Bear Studios / 505 Games)
- Inkbound (Shiny Shoe Studios)
- Rogue Waters (Ice Code Games / Tripwire Presents)
- Zephon (Proxy Studios)
Best Multiplayer Game
-- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Enshrouded (Keen Games)
- Marvel Rivals (NetEase Games)
- Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Most Anticipated Game
-- Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade (7Quark / Game Source Entertainment)
- Everhood 2 (Nordgren and Roca / Gnome Games)
- Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact (Eighting / Bushiroad Games)
- Little Nightmares 3 (Supermassive Games / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Mio: Memories in Orbit (Douze Dixièmes / Focus Entertainment)
===============
== My Personal Steam Awards 2024 ==
Game of the Year
-- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Anomaly Collapse (RocketPunch Games)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Mercury Abbey (YiTi Games / Gamera Games)
VR Game of the Year
-- Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 (Scott Cawthon)
- Blade and Sorcery (Warp Frog Studios)
- Bootstrap Island (Maru Productions)
- Soul Covenant (Thirdverse Co., Ltd.)
- Spectral Scream (Stoic Entertainment)
Labor of Love
-- Massive Monster / Devolver Digital (Cult of the Lamb)
- CowCat Games (BROK The InvestiGator)
- Dare Looks (Pawperty Damage)
- Epic Games (Fortnite)
- MiHoYo (Genshin Impact)
Better With Friends
-- Palworld (Pocketpair)
- Atlyss (Kiseff / KisSoft)
- Liar's Bar (Curve Animation)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Sons of the Forest (Endnight Games)
Outstanding Visual Style
-- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Gori: Cuddly Carnage (Angry Demon Studio / Wired Productions)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Best Game You Suck At
-- Rivals of Aether II (Aether Studios)
- Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus (Squid Shock Studios / Humble Games)
- Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco Entertainment )
- Frostpunk 2 (11 Bit Studios)
- Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco Studios, Arika / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Best Soundtrack
-- David Wise (Nikoderiko: The Magical World)
- Moisés Camargo and Manami Kiyota (Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus)
- William Sahl (Gori: Cuddly Carnage)
- ResoForce and FlashyGoodness (Rivals of Aether II)
- Ippo Yamada (Umbraclaw)
Outstanding Story-Rich Game
-- Mercury Abbey (YiTi Games / Gamera Games)
- Biomorph (Lucid Dreams Studio)
- Finding Frankie (Super Lou Games)
- Nikoderiko: The Magical World (Vea Games / Knights Peak)
- Umbraclaw (Inti Creates Co., Ltd.)
Sit Back and Relax
-- Critter Cove (Gentleman Rat Studios)
- Little Kitty, Big City (Double Dagger Studio)
- On Your Tail (Memorable Games / Humble Games)
- T.C.G. Card Shop Simulator (OPNeon Games)
- Webfishing (LameDeveloper)
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