Tuesday, December 31st 2024
Black Myth: Wukong Sweeps 2024 Steam Awards As Narrative Gaming Makes Strong Showing Overall
Every year, Valve holds The Steam Game Awards, a community-driven initiative to recognize the best games that were launched in that year. Valve has just released the results for the 2024 Steam Game Awards, which are determined by community vote—as opposed to events like The Game Awards, which feature a jury selection—and split into individual categories. This year, though, the overall winner for Game of the Year was Black Myth Wukong, which beat out other finalists: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Balatro, and Helldivers 2 for top spot. Game of the Year wasn't Wukong's only victory, either, with the game also taking home the "Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award," which seems logical given its overall victory, and the cleverly named "Best Game You Suck At Award," which is meant to highlight the best difficult game of the year. In this category, Black Myth Wukong was up against Dragon Ball Z Sparkling Zero, The Finals, Ghost of Tsushima, and Tekken 8, which is again a very diverse mix of games and genres, so it's somewhat interesting to see a narrative-driven game like Wukong come out ahead here.
The rest of the Steam Game Awards 2024 was less of a one-man show, with Metro Awakening VR taking Best VR Game of the Year, Elden Ring nabbing the Labor of Love Award, and God of War Ragnarök taking the Best Game on Steam Deck Award. Helldivers 2 won Better with Friends, while Silent Hill 2 took home the Outstanding Visual Style Award, Liar's Bar won Most Innovative Gameplay, Red Dead Redemption won Best Soundtrack Award, and Farming Simulator 25 was crowned with the Sit Back and Relax award, beating out the likes or Webfishing, House Flipper 2, and Tiny Glade. One of the more surprising "minor" awards winners here is God of War Ragnarök taking home Best Game on Steam Deck, since you often hear in discourse around the Steam Deck that it's not suitable for AAA gaming, and God of War is only two years old at the time of writing, meaning it is still very demanding, with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 6 GB quoted as the minimum recommended GPU to play the game.
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The rest of the Steam Game Awards 2024 was less of a one-man show, with Metro Awakening VR taking Best VR Game of the Year, Elden Ring nabbing the Labor of Love Award, and God of War Ragnarök taking the Best Game on Steam Deck Award. Helldivers 2 won Better with Friends, while Silent Hill 2 took home the Outstanding Visual Style Award, Liar's Bar won Most Innovative Gameplay, Red Dead Redemption won Best Soundtrack Award, and Farming Simulator 25 was crowned with the Sit Back and Relax award, beating out the likes or Webfishing, House Flipper 2, and Tiny Glade. One of the more surprising "minor" awards winners here is God of War Ragnarök taking home Best Game on Steam Deck, since you often hear in discourse around the Steam Deck that it's not suitable for AAA gaming, and God of War is only two years old at the time of writing, meaning it is still very demanding, with an NVIDIA GTX 1060 6 GB quoted as the minimum recommended GPU to play the game.
48 Comments on Black Myth: Wukong Sweeps 2024 Steam Awards As Narrative Gaming Makes Strong Showing Overall
The awards are due to massive voting by biased Chinese players and influences, just so it can win those fake awards. Seriously, there were so much better games out there like GOW, Dragon Age, Indiana Jones, Fristpunk 2, Avatar the game, etc, etc
BTW wukong sold more than 4mil copies outside of China, so it's not just chinese gamers voting for it
Also Dragon Age is a joke right?
920k out of 1.1mil are chinese reviews on the game. ~90%...
So yeah I also think that many people from china voted for the game.
I'm not saying it is bad or anything, I haven't played it yet.
I am just saying that most (>80%) of players that bought Wukong are chinese and their many votes influenced the award.
It is also one of the very few AAA-Games completely out of china.
Waiting for a discount to play it.I hope so, its not a good game. Gameplay is mediocre, Story is mediocre, SOME writing is very bad (you know which ones).
I am not hating or cancelling the game, I just don't like it.I also didn't understand the "hype" around Balatro. Outside of the Game Awards I have never heard of it. And its out since February...
And nobody mentions Factorio: Space Age.
With that said, my bet's on Stellar Blade sweeping Steam Awards next year when it releases on PC.
Dragon age for game of the year? No, you are not biased...
My wife thinks BMW was trash while to me it was probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite thing I've played this year everyone has their own taste.
I agree 10m isn't enough to even judge a game and the first 10m of Wukong is actually pretty bad ass if you have the hardware to make it shine ofc.
Most people aren't buying and playing current year releases but we can all still vote anyhow.
It didn't even occur to me that anyone would take those awards seriously at all.
Ofc millions of Chinese players voted Wukong top game. Hell it's really more a testament to their restraint or Valve's algorithm that Wukong didn't win every single award.
just because the majority who voted it most likely chinese people you think it shouldn't count? we shouldn't considered them as gamers who have can vote for the game they fond of? :laugh:
As has been referenced in this thread by the differing opinions on games (even within families), it's pretty clear you buy what you want to buy, play what you enjoy, and ignore the prats 'telling' you what's good or bad.
Although it would seem most non Chinese people enjoyed BMW also.... The truth is there will never be a game ever that is universally liked even the consensus best games of all time have people that call them crap and that is 100% ok.
Personally if I was the only person that like a specific game and it won zero awards I wouldn't care I would just be enjoying the game....
Regarding awards, Steam's are probably the most trustworthy, considered that it is voted for by the people, unlike on The Game Awards show (which is decided by "industry insiders", to put it as mildly as I can).
Even as a UK born Chinese myself I know about Journey to the west and have watched movies and tv shows based on the story. So it has an huge cultural significance to Chinese people in general as it gets read to them a lot while they are growing up. They'll also have Chinese Opera's/Theatre shows, TV shows and movies that are produced every few years to celebrate the anniversary of the writer/story as well as the keep the legacy alive among the people. Its a pretty huge deal.
So if anyone is wondering why there are a tonne of chinese people voting for the game in the steam awards. This is why.
Maybe @Fourstaff can confirm, although he may have a different take on it since I believe he is from TW whereas my lineage originates from HK. Im not sure how culturally significant JTTW is in TW. In theory it should be the same as we are still the same people but with a big swimming pool that separates us.