2024 EDGE awards, top 10 games of the year
This month’s issue of EDGE is starting to make it out to subscribers, and the publication’s awards for 2024 are included alongside a list of the top ten games of the year.
For the awards, you might be somewhat surprised by Nintendo Game of the Year category. Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door were both nominees, but it was actually Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island that took the prize.
Here’s the full list of 2024 EDGE awards:
Main Awards
- Nintendo Game of the Year: Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
- PlayStation Game of the Year: Astro Bot
- Xbox Game of the Year: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- PC Game of the Year: Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best VR Game of the Year: Vendetta Forever
- Best Expansion: Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Best Visual Design: Neva
- Best Audio Design: Star Wars Outlaws
- Best Narrative Design: The Rise of the Golden Idol
- Best Performance: Alec Newman (Still Wakes in the Deep)
- Publisher of the Year: Asobi
- Studio of the Year: Playstack
We’ve included EDGE’s top ten games of 2024 below. Nintendo Switch games Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Animal Well, and Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island made the list.
Top 10 Games
- Astro Bot
- UFO 50
- Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
- Animal Well
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
- Arco
- Frostpunk 2
- Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
- Helldivers 2
For those that are curious about past years, you can see how the awards panned out in 2023 here, 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, and 2017 here.
