GOTY 2024 Results

GGn's Game of the Year 2024

With the new year starting to take shape, the results from our Game of the Year 2024 voting contest are finally in!

This time we again have a clear winner, it's Balatro with 20.72% of all votes. Metaphor: ReFantazio and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl came second and third, getting 9.97% and 7.77% respectively. Interestingly, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl also won Disappointment of the Year. Yes, same game is #3 for GOTY and #1 for disappointment of the year — such a controversy.

Games that have won in individual categories are listed below.

The Top 3 games of the main GOTY vote, as well as all the games that have won their categories,
will be freeleech throughout 2025.

There was also a "Best older game first uploaded in 2024" category, but unfortunately voters didn't understand the qualifying criteria, and voted mostly for Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut that is not an older game — it was released in 2024. This category was supposed to be for games that couldn't get their votes earlier just because they were not cracked or released. Hopefully we'll get some better results for this one in 2025 — there are potential candidates such as Final Fantasy 16 and Wukong — these games might finally get pirated in 2025. We'll try to make a better explanation next year too.

GGn Staff