2024 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Feng Ji)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Yoshinori Kitase)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Junichi Yoshizawa)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Well, Helldivers II, Indiana Jones and the Lost Circle, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Feng Ji)
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Satoshi Terada & Tomomi Sano)
• Stellar Blade (Kim Hyung-tae)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Dmitry Grigorenko & Oliver Hollis-Leick)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham Shadow, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Helldivers II, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Star Wars Outlaws)

Best Game Design

• Animal Well (Billy Basso)
• Astro Bot (Gento Morita)
• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Jiang Baicun)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Yasuhiro Akimoto)
  (Honourable Mentions: Helldivers II, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, UFO 50, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
• Little Kitty, Big City (Matt T. Wood)
• The Plucky Squire (James Turner & Jonathan Biddle)
• Princess Peach: Showtime! (Etsunobu Ebisu)
  
• Super Mario Party Jamboree (Takeru Sugimoto)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Well, Cat Quest III, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, Planet Coaster 2, Sonic X Shadow Generations)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• EA Sports FC 25 (John Shepherd)
• F1 24 (Lee Mather)
• MLB '24: The Show (Chris Cutliff)
• NBA 2K25 (Mike Wang & Erick Boenisch)
• WWE 2K24 (Lynell Jinks & Gregory A. Thomas)
  (Honourable Mentions: EXOcars, MotoGP 24, MudRunner VR, Night-Runners Prologue, TopSpin 2K25)

Best Technical Innovation

• Astro Bot (Masayuki Yamada & Takumi Yoshida)
• Batman: Arkham Shadow (Colin Doody & Troy Johnsen)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Zhao Wenyong)
• Indiana Jones and the Lost Circle (Jim Kjellin, Magnus Auvinen & Patrik Wilbo)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Gavin Costello, Loong Wei Ding & Andrew Vidler)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Well, Balatro, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Helldivers II, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Helldivers II
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• Tekken 8
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
  (Honourable Mentions: Abiotic Factor, EA Sports FC 25, LEGO Horizon Adventures, Star Wars: Hunters, UFO 50)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Age of Mythology: Retold (Adam Isgreen & Michael Mann)
• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Frostpunk 2 (Jakub Stokalski & Łukasz Juszczyk)
• Manor Lords (Grzegorz Styczeń)
• Tactical Breach Wizards (Tom Francis)
  (Honourable Mentions: Caves of Qud, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Unicorn Warlord)

Best Audio Design

• Astro Bot (Junko Sano & Yuji Uchiyama)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Collin Ayers, Scott Eckert, James McCawley & Brian Tuey)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Shingo Inoue, Shoi Tokunaga, Hikaru Taniyama & Makoto Ise)
• Senua's Sacrifice: Hellblade II (David García Díaz, Daniele Galante, Jamie Molloy & Jordan Payne)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Romain Brillaud, Simon Koudriavtsev, Jacob Coles & Antoine Rozan)
  (Honourable Mentions: Black Myth: Wukong, Frostpunk 2, Helldivers II, Silent Hill 2, Still Wakes the Deep)

Best Music

• Astro Bot (Kenneth C M Young)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Masashi Hamauzu & Mitsuto Suzuki)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Shoji Meguro)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Wilbert Roget II, Jon Everist & Kazuma Jinnouchi)
• Stellar Blade (Hwang Joo-eun, Oliver Good & Keita Inoue)
  (Honourable Mentions: Balatro - Luis Clemente, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Jack Wall, Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Gordy Haab, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Mentrix & Gareth Coker)

Best Mobile Game

• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Monument Valley 3 (Jennifer Estaris)
• Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket (Ai Takeuchi & Tetsuya Iguchi)
• Wuthering Waves (Solon Lee)
• Zenless Zone Zero (Li Zhenyu)
  (Honourable Mentions: AFK Journey, Ex Astris, Halls of Torment, Paper Trail, Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse)

Best Fighting Game

• Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Tairi Kikuchi)
• Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Tetsuya Fukuhara)
• Tekken 8 (Katsuhiro Harad, Kohei Ikeda & Yasuki Nakabayashi)
• Underdogs (Dave Levy & Assaf Ronen)
• WWE 2K24 (Lynell Jinks & Gregory A. Thomas)
  (Honourable Mentions: Blazing Strike, Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns)

Best Art Direction

• Astro Bot (Sebastian Brueckner)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Yang Qi)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Kazuma Koda)
• Neva (Conrad Roset)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Dan Attwell)
  (Honourable Mentions: Harold Halibut, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, LEGO Horizon Adventures, The Plucky Squire, Star Wars Outlaws)

Best Animation

• Astro Bot (Jamie Smith & Kohei Kawa)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Yoshiyuki Soma, Akira Iwasawa & Ryo Hara)
• Neva (Adrián Miguel, Ian García & Arnau Martín)
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Jacques Exertier & Bruce Nguyen Van Lan)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Guy Midgley, Kirill Spiridonov, Felix Ilsley & Gregorio Malara)
  (Honourable Mentions: Black Myth: Wukong, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, The Plucky Squire, Stellar Blade, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Story/Writing

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Kazushige Nojima)
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Kazunobu Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Furuta & Masayoshi Yokoyama)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Yuichiro Tanaka & Katsura Hashino)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Lara Derham & Tameem Antoniades)
• Thank Goodness You're Here (James Carbutt & Will Todd)
  (Honourable Mentions: 1000xResist, Black Myth: Wukong, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Silent Hill 2, Still Wakes the Deep)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Troy Baker - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for voicing Indiana Jones
• Humberly Gonzalez - Star Wars Outlaws for voicing Kay Vess
• Melina Juergens - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II for voicing Senua
• Hannah Telle - Life is Strange: Double Exposure for voicing Max Caulfield
• Briana White - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for voicing Aerith Gainsborough
  (Honourable Mentions: Matt Berry - Thank Goodness You're Here, Cody Christian - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Kazuhro Nakaya - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Luke Roberts - Silent Hill 2, Roger Craig Smith - Batman: Arkham Shadow)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Alien: Rogue Incursion (TQ Jefferson & Eugene Elkin)
• Batman: Arkham Shadow (Ryan Payton)
• Metro Awakening (Martin de Ronde & Samar Louwe)
• Skydance's Behemoth (Brian Murphy & Shawn Kittelsen)
• Underdogs (Dave Levy & Assaf Ronen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Escaping Wonderland, Metal: Hellsinger VR, Shattered, Starship Home, Tomb Explorer VR)