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Black Myth: Wukong grabs Ultimate Game of the Year to kick off awards season

All Golden Joystick Awards winners

Marco Wutz

Game Science

The Golden Joystick Awards took place on November 21, 2024, kicking off this year’s season for video game awards – and Black Myth: Wukong grabbed the first big trophy of 2024, winning the Ultimate Game of the Year.

Most of the awards at the Golden Joysticks are based on popular votes with a few being decided by a jury of critics, giving these awards a very different character than something like The Game Awards, which gives a majority of the voting power to the jury and essentially keeps around the popular vote for engagement purposes.

Aside from GOTY, Wukong was awarded with Best Visual Design. Helldivers 2 won four awards at the show, taking home Best Multiplayer Game, Console Game of the Year, the Critics' Choice Award, and Best Game Trailer – Arrowhead’s co-op shooter thus triumphed in more categories than any other title.

PC GOTY went to a deserved winner in Satisfactory, while Balatro won Best Indie Game and the Breakthrough Award, which was decided by critics. Minecraft and Honkai: Star Rail won the Still Playing Awards on Console/PC and Mobile, respectively.

All Golden Joystick Awards 2024 winners

  • Best Audio Design – Astro Bot
  • Best Soundtrack – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Best Storytelling – Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
  • Best Multiplayer Game – Helldivers 2
  • Best Visual Design – Black Myth: Wukong
  • Best Indie Game – Balatro
  • Best Indie Game (Self–published) – Another Crab's Treasure
  • Studio of the Year – Team Asobi
  • Best Lead Performer – Cody Christian (Cloud, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth)
  • Best Supporting Performer – Briana White (Aerith, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth)
  • Breakthrough Award (Critics' Choice) – Balatro
  • Still Playing Award (Console & PC) – Minecraft
  • Still Playing Award (Mobile) – Honkai: Star Rail
  • PC Game of the Year – Satisfactory
  • Console Game of the Year – Helldivers 2
  • Most Wanted Game – GTA 6
  • Critics' Choice Award – Helldivers 2
  • Best Game Expansion – Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
  • Best Gaming Hardware – Steam Deck OLED
  • Best Early Access Game – Lethal Company
  • Best Game Trailer – Helldivers 2
  • Streamers' Choice Award – Chained Together
  • Best Game Adaptation – Fallout
  • Ultimate Game of the Year – Black Myth: Wukong

We'll have to wait until mid-December 2024 to see how this list will compare to the choices at The Game Awards.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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