Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024.
Astro Bot has been crowned Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024. The top prize was announced during the December 12 ceremony, where Team Asobi and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s cheerful platform adventure stood out in a stacked field of nominees.
Astro Bot was also the most awarded game of the night, earning four trophies in total. Alongside Game of the Year, it picked up Best Game Direction, Best Action/Adventure, and Best Family, a sweep that highlights how widely the game connected across categories.
The win caps off a strong year for a genre that rarely dominates major awards shows. Astro Bot’s success also reinforces Sony’s continued push for prestige single player releases on PlayStation 5, even as live service and multiplayer titles remain major forces across the industry.
What is Astro Bot?
Astro Bot is a standalone, full sized adventure (not a free pack-in like Astro’s Playroom). It is a single player platforming game built specifically for PlayStation 5, with the studio leaning heavily into the console’s controller features and fast loading.
According to official game information, Astro Bot sends players across more than 50 planets, with hundreds of collectibles and robots to rescue. The game also includes plenty of nods to PlayStation history, turning familiar characters and hardware references into part of the journey.
Astro Bot’s awards at The Game Awards 2024
- Game of the Year
- Best Game Direction
- Best Action/Adventure
- Best Family
Game of the Year nominees
- Astro Bot (Team Asobi / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Balatro (LocalThunk / Playstack)
- Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science)
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
- Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero / Atlus / Sega)
Other notable winners from The Game Awards 2024
- Metaphor: ReFantazio won Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, and Best RPG.
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth won Best Score and Music.
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II won Best Audio Design, and Melina Juergens won Best Performance.
- Helldivers 2 won Best Ongoing and Best Multiplayer.
- Black Myth: Wukong won Best Action Game and also topped the fan voted Players’ Voice category.
- Fallout won Best Adaptation, while Grand Theft Auto VI took Most Anticipated Game.
The Game Awards combines an industry jury process with select community voting categories, while also serving as a showcase for premieres and announcements. With Astro Bot taking the show’s biggest prize, 2024’s ceremony again demonstrated that inventive, tightly designed platformers can still compete at the very top.
