2024 Game of the Year Awards — Genre Awards

This wasn’t a very strong year for strategy games. As Souls-Like and Rogue-Like games have mostly taken over, strategy, fighting, and racing games have sort of taken a backseat lately thus the missing categories this year (for racing). Strategy games tend to come in waves and are no longer restricted to just the PC, but tend to be the same preferred platform due to the mouse and keyboard controls. However, with the power of consoles it’s hard to resist spending some time tinkering with a controller as a developer to get people sitting on their couches for long stretches and working their brains.

Unicorn Overlord

Unicorn Overlord is not only a gorgeous title to look at, but shows us Vanillaware’s best work yet. Strategy elements are teeming with deeps battles, but nothing so crazy that you need hour long tutorials for. The story is engaging and the characters likable. There’s not too much to dislike with Unicorn Overlord. While it’s not a traditional RTS game that usually wins this category, it’s says something about Vanillaware and their ability to deliver fantastic gameplay on a 2D plane.