The Game of the Year Nominees

The time has finally come to vote for GGn's Game of the Year 2024, as well as for games in a number of categories!

With the nomination phase now over, the Game of the Year pick will be determined via a site poll, while votes for the individual categories will be collected through posts. The following categories should be used in posts:

Best Gameplay
Best Story
Best Graphics
Best Soundtrack
Best Low-Budget Indie Game
Best Voice Acting
Best Characters
Most Replayable
Most Challenging
Surprisingly Good
Disappointment of the year
Best older game first uploaded in 2024
Best DLC

Limitations & Conditions

For these categories you can pick any game following the below criteria, not only the GOTY candidates listed above.
The picks for the all the categories except the last two must have received a release in 2024 on any platform. Games in active development such as Early Access (so no Valheim), as well as Updates and DLC aren't considered releases, but remasters, remakes, and games out of Early Access in 2024 are.
Only games that have torrents uploaded on GGn can be voted on. This means that votes for multiplayer-only games or uncracked games will be discarded.
Any voting answer must strictly follow the provided format and must at least vote for 3 categories. You can vote for all of them, or can skip any categories you don't want to vote in.
The last 3 categories are different from others:
"Disappointment of the year" is an anti-award — choose a game that failed to meet your expectations.
For the "Best older games first uploaded in 2024" category any game that was released in 2023 or earlier and uploaded to GGn for the first time in 2024 can be picked.
For the "Best DLC" category any game that recieved a DLC in 2024 can be picked — the game itself can have earlier release year.




Answers should be given in the following format:

Category 1: Game Name
Category 2: Game Name
Category 3: Game Name
etc.

Optional comment after an empty line.

Note: Votes will initially be parsed programmatically. Do not use any bbcode, additional/alternative punctuation, emoji, etc. in the category voting lines. Votes must be an exact copy of one of the category names, followed by a colon and a space, a game name, and then nothing else. Please also use full game names instead of abbreviations (for example, "God of War: Ragnarok" instead of just "GoW: Ragnarok").

Do not add any bbcode, additional punctuation, comments, emoji, etc.!

Do not put a space before : too. Follow the format.

Example Post 1 (all categories): Show
Example Post 2 (fewer categories): Show

Note: example posts above intentionally uses previous years games to not bias your nominations. Of course you need to pick other games — released in 2024

Voting will be open until Jan 14th, 23:59 site time.