Many of the notable nominees for The Game Awards 2024 are seeing sizable boosts to sales performance, as per a recent report.

The Game Awards' Best Game Direction category celebrates games with a unique and creative vision and design, but the winner is still not clear.

I t may not have the sheer quantity of high-quality games that last year had, but 2024 has been a surprisingly good year for video game releases. Astro Bot, Helldivers 2, STALKER

LOS ANGELES — Ahead of next month's ceremony, The Game Awards announced the nominees for Game of the Year and many other categories Monday afternoon. The Game Awards is an annual ceremony that has been honoring achievements in the video game industry since it was first established in 2014.

Other categories honor much smaller projects that didn’t land nominations at The Game Awards. The nominees for Bite-Sized Game includes Buckshot Roulette and Clickolding, while Cryptmaster and Oddada are up for the show’s Innovation award. Here’s the full list of nominees.

In a livestream Tuesday, the inaugural Indie Game Awards — a new awards show focused on “creativity, innovation, and passion” in the independent games space — announced its 2024 nominees for a slate of awards including Debut Game, Bite-Sized Game, Solo Development, and of course, Game of the Year.

Every game on The Game Awards 2024's Best Indie nominee list is deserving of the win, but just one game can take home the coveted Game Awards trophy.

While multiple awards at The Game Awards 2024 could go in any number of ways, Best Narrative seems like it'll be a hotly contested race.