2024 Game of the Year Awards — Achievement Awards

Multiplayer games will always dominate, but thanks to live service and battle royale games these have become the most lucrative for businesses. This is both good and bad. This is probably the most saturated genre right now and there are way too many of them for most to stand out. This year saw a lot of multiplayer only games being cancelled and nerfed into oblivion and fan bases leaving.

Helldivers II

What once was a simple top-down co-op shooter has become one of the biggest live-service multiplayer games of all time. Somehow, someway, Helldivers II struck gold and it just so happens to be one of Sony’s new babies. The co-op shooter provides oppurtunity for a lot of comraderie with a community that stands by each other and builds themselves up. Don’t get this twisted. Helldivers II still has a small outlying crop of toxic players, but you might not have more fun than with this game and a friend this year.