Welcome to MetaCouncil's Annual Game of the Year voting! Vote for five of your favorite games of 2024.
Check out our GOTY's for past years:
GOTY 2023
GOTY 2022
GOTY 2021
GOTY 2020
GOTY 2019
GOTY 2018
Rules are as follows:
The categories for voting are:
- Game of the Year 2024 Award (main award)
- Best of Last Year (optional) (new this year!)
- Ongoing Game of the Year (optional)
- Early Access of the Year (optional)
- Best Soundtrack (optional)
- Best Old Game (optional)
- Turd of the Year (optional)
- Up to 5 choices can be submitted (ranked voting without point):
- 1st Choice
- 2nd Choice
- 3rd Choice
- 4th Choice
- 5th Choice
- You can submit fewer than 5 games, but you must submit at least 1 game as your 1st choice.
- For the 1st Choice, you have to write a short text to explain why you have chosen it as your GOTY. It could be a sentence.
- Do not submit the same game for several Choices of the main award.
- GOTY 2024 Award:
- Any game fully released in 2024 is eligible.
- This includes remakes and remasters, provided that they are new to your platform of choice. (For example: Ghost of Tsushima new to Steam.)
- Episodic content is eligible if the last episode was released in 2024.
- As MetaCouncil is a predominantly English language website, any game getting an English translation in the correct time frame can be eligible.
- As to be clear, you can choose VR games for the GOTY category.
- You can submit games from any PC store front and Console and even Phones.
- Best of Last Year
- Any game from 2023 that you played this year.
- Otherwise the rules are essentially the same as for the main award.
- Ongoing Game of the Year
- Any game fully released prior to 2022 which received content updates in 2024 is eligible.
- New content can be in the form of patches, DLC or general updates, but not bug fixes.
- This includes massive expansions, as long as it requires the base game.
- Early Access of the Year
- Any game released into Early Access (or equivalent) in 2024 is eligible.
- Best Soundtrack
- Did any 2024 game have a stellar soundtrack? You can now vote for that too!
- Best Old Game
- Maybe you played a non 2024 game this year and it completely blew everything else away and you want to give some acknowledgment.
- Turd of the Year
- Any game fully released in 2024 is eligible. We're looking for the worst games.
To Vote send a PM to me Le Pertti with the subject GOTY2024 and format you message as follows:
Code:
GOTY 2024
1. Game Title
2. Game Title
3. Game Title
4. Game Title
5. Game Title
Short Motivation for GOTY:
Your awesome text.
Best of Last Year:
Game Title
Ongoing:
Game Title
Early Access of the year:
Game Title
Best Soundtrack:
Game Title
Best Old Game:
Game Title
Turd of the Year:
Game TitleDeadline:
January 15th 2025
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