Wccftech Awards ’24 – Best Games of 2024 and Most Anticipated of 2025 from Staff and Community

Alessio Palumbo
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Feb 9, 2025 at 12:30pm EST
Wccftech Awards '24

It's time to officially announce the winners of the Wccftech Awards' 24. The list features the best games released last year and the most anticipated titles due this year, as voted by our staff and community through polls based on our respective category lists.

While 2024 wasn't quite as outstanding as 2023 when accounting for the overall game releases, there were certainly some standout launches. The best arguably arrived late in the year, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle from MachineGames being the only game to snatch three prizes (the Adventure award from both staff and community and the Game of the Year award from the staff).

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The rest of the best of 2024 stopped at two awards. This includes Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (voted the best RPG according to both staff and community), Tekken 8, Black Myth: Wukong, Frostpunk 2, Astro Bot, and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Only in four cases out of thirteen categories was there a different winner between the staff and community polls, showing a great alignment between the tastes of our writers and our readers.

Our yearly Wccftech Awards also include the outlook for the next year, in this case, 2025. Here, the misalignment was much greater, with nine out of thirteen winners being different between staff and community polls. It's no wonder, though, as the games haven't been released yet, and these votes are based on current information only.

Arguably, the standout is that our staff isn't very excited about Grand Theft Auto VI as a whole, though perhaps that will change when Rockstar Games actually shares some gameplay details.

Congratulations to all the winners, and see you in a year or so for the next Wccftech Awards!

About the author: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief. In the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech's gaming section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews. Arguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications. His passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action/adventure games.

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