Baldur’s Gate 3, Honkai: Star Rail, and Alan Wake 2 win at the 13th New York Game Awards

Pretty much confirming last year’s consensus

Marco Wutz | Jan 24, 2024

Baldur’s Gate 3, Honkai: Star Rail, and Alan Wake 2 win at the 13th New York Game Awards /

The 2024 New York Game Awards, given out by a circle of critics, writers, and journalists from the United States, have a bit of a confusing name – though they use 2024 in their title, they are recognizing titles that have been released in 2023. This approach at least avoids one of the less ideal aspects of The Game Awards, which can’t consider releases from late in the year and has to roll them into next year’s show, leading to confusion as well – there is no perfect solution for this.

Luckily, this round of awards pretty much confirmed the consensus reached by shows held last year: Baldur’s Gate 3 is the Game of the Year, pinning another accolade on Larian Studios’ more than deserving RPG. In addition, Herman Melville won the show’s award for Best Writing in a Game, marking another BG3 victory.

A red-skinned woman with horns and pointy ears, and flames burning in her chest, is standing in a forest with a sly smile on her face — Another trophy for Karlach and BG3 is in the bag / Larian Studios

Like in many other award shows, Remedy’s Alan Wake 2 got recognized as well, taking home the Award for Best World on top of Saga Anderson actress Melanie Liburd winning Best Acting in a Game, while HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail grabbed yet another Best Mobile Game trophy – though fans shouldn’t expect any more celebratory freebies at this point. Both Alan Wake 2 and Honkai: Star Rail have been frequently recognized throughout the 2023/24 awards season, making them as much consensus picks as Baldur’s Gate 3.

Chants of Sennar won Best Indie Game at the show, while Asgard’s Wrath 2 got to celebrate an expected and well-deserved victory in the Best AR/VR Game category. There is little surprise about some of the other winners as well: Hi-Fi Rush took Best Music in a Game, Super Mario Bros. Wonder won Best Kids Game, Resident Evil 4 took Best Remake, and Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty was recognized as Best DLC.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which was nominated for three categories, didn’t take home a trophy, which was probably the night’s biggest surprise. There is still time to make up for this, though, with shows like the annual DICE Awards and the Game Developers Choice Awards coming up.

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Published Jan 24, 2024

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