Poll: Vote for Your PS5 Game of the Year 2024

Hey everyone, just a few quick notes:

• If your favourite game from 2024 isn't on the list, we can only apologise! 50 games is a necessary cap to ensure that the voting system remains balanced.
• Only standalone games make the cut. Expansions, like Shadow of the Erdtree (looking at you, Geoff!) aren't included (but they can still be featured in our own best DLC award).
• The minimum number of games you can choose in the poll is three. In previous years, some users complained that they hadn't actually played three games and so couldn't vote, but unfortunately, we can't let people vote for just one or two games, as doing so could unbalance the voting process overall.

If anyone's got any questions about our whole Game of the Year process, let me know and I can try to answer them.

Thanks to everyone who votes! Can't wait to share the results over the holidays.

Definitely Astro bot is number 1. Helldivers 2 is number 2.

1st Astro Bot
2nd Everything else

Should be fun to see how this goes. I enjoyed Astro, Hundred Heroes and Animal Well this year.

There are a few big hitters (Silent Hill, Dragon Age) that I haven't got around to yet though

I’m not sure of the exact order but the top 5 would probably include Unicorn Overlord, Astrobot, Balatro, Black Ops 6 and Infinite Wealth.

Honourable mentions and still a huge amount of love for Helldivers 2, Rebirth and Tekken 8.

#1 Stellar Blade
#2-5. Everything else.

Astro Bot for me as GOTY.

5. Helldivers 2

4. Final Fantasy: Rebirth

3. Black Myth

2. Dragon's Dogma 2

1. Astro Butt

Getting my list down to 5 was tough!

1.) Astro Bot
2.) Metaphor: ReFantazio
3.) Silent Hill 2
4.) Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
5.) Neva

1. Rebirth
2. LAD Infinite Wealth
3. Astrobot (although I still haven't finished it)
4. Metaphor
5. Black Myth Wukong
Honorable mention to Persona 3 Reload and Thank Goodness You're Here

Question—can I deduct points from FF7Rebirth’s eventual tally? After how the director put his own selfish desires ahead of what’s best for the gamer and completely butchered the trophy list (and subsequently apologized for, but lazily never patched), it deserves acclaim less than whatever it will receive.

Vampire Survivors??? I know they actually released on mobile few years earlier, but...

Infinity Nikki! Even if it’s a bit. Difficult to play in its current state. Stellar Blade was. Okay, but nothing special for me unfortunately despite how much I wanted to enjoy it.

1.Rebirth
2.Veilguard
3.Metaphor
4.Silent Hill 2
5.Already forgotten what I picked.

My top 5

Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth
Sonic X Shadow Generations
Astro Bot
Tekken 8
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

I feel like I’m the only person on this site putting Hi-Fi Rush as their GOTY lol.

No Space Marine 2 in list... Don't even have 5 games to put anyway. Hi Fi Rush didn't play but respect.

Very few big ever appeal to me each year it's always smaller games or AAs no one puts in lists anyways.

Seeing as Ratchet and Space Marine 2 are my only PS5 games played on another 's console (not buying my own for the price or lack of interest) as the console/games are unappealing to me, was an un-interesting year/generation so far. The rest I want I can pass on from prior years releases of current gen only as either too hard to play (Ride 5 as 4 and MotoGp games by Milestone have been too hard) or not compelling enough. Immortals of Aveum, Forspoken and others they are ok but still pretty eh.

Even then Space Marine 2 I thought could have been better it was too safe of a 10 year old game design (so felt bland in the PS3/360 and 8th/9th gen way, still each weapon was fun to see what next while the dragged out enemies, SM1 is fine but 2 repeating itself felt so stupid and safe) campaign and fair operations ideas but eh pacing.

That aside I found only Gori Cuddly Carnage exciting this year and bought it after the demo. I haven't started it yet.

Steam World Heist 2 I'll wait on.

Akimbot I was interested but looks too inspired by old games in a boring way and too empty game design bland many Indies do to be cough modern, so to me that's bad game design. So pass. Also current gen only, even more pass.

Otherwise what, I bought Another Code remake (bad combined experience not menu & eh over VN/Point n click OG format), Famicom Detective Club Emio (not played yet), & Hot Lap Racing (generic racer, sigh racing games suck 8/9th gen) on Switch.

If Ride 5/WRC 23 suck then I'm done. Retro only.

POP Lost Crown is ok...... Don't think much of it. Does the job.

I beat Splatoon 2 early on Switch this year. A bunch of other older Switch and older gen console.games.

My year was old games on PS4 for cheap physical, odd digital & 95% retro physical games bought, 20 or so actually finished, I didn't care at all for 2024 in slightest. Pretty unappealing year for me.

I played PS4 or Xbox One old games probably 1/4 of the year, sure my wrap up says what games in the year, but they are partial hours & unfinished games, besides even more 20+ PS2/Wii/360/PS3 focus of a year, what a year I didn't have to care about anything coming out mostly.

1. FFVII Rebirth
2. Astro Bot
3. Stellar Blade
4. Prince of Persia The Lost Crown
5. Hi-Fi Rush

Give Tekken 8 one point because of its
battle pass🤮 in a full priced game and on top of that they try to sell you a battle stage all by itself 🙄🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑👀

I gotta confess. I've only played 2 games on that list..... too many great games, I cant keep up.

1.astrobot
2.dragon age
3.final fantasy rebirth
4.silent hill 2
5. Have I only played 4 new games this yea…. Oh indika.

Also It’s a crime against gaming Ys x is missing from the list

@Deoxyr1bose In my top 10 for sure. Incredible game!

It was a tough choice but ultimately had to cut off SMTV to fit in infinity nikki and zzz. FF7 Rebirth has been completely disrespected this award season so I'm putting it in 1st place

2. Astro Bot, 3. Stellar Blade, 4. ZZZ, 5. Infinity Nikki

Was Neptunia: Game Maker Revolution this year? Damn, I really should have thought more before voting…

My personal GOTY is definitely Stellar Blade, but let me pour one for PoP Lost Crown. Very solid metroidvania and first ubi good game in a decade, but went mostly unnoticed.

1. Astro Bot
2. Stellar Blade
3. Final Fantasy 7 ReBirth
4. Metaphor Re Fantazio
5. Unicorn Overlord

I would have had YS X Nordics at number 5 but it wasn't included. Trails Through Daybreak would have also been there but I'm still not finished with it so I won't include games I haven't yet completed.

Really no wrong answers here. What a great year!
1. Metaphor Refantazio
2. Stellar Blade
3. Astro Bot
4. Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth
5. FF7 Rebirth

I gotta give some love to metaphor and dragon’s dogma 2

I voted Infinite Wealth first even tho it’s a virtual tie with Rebirth because I want to give it a tiny boost that Rebirth will obviously get more of. Top 10 for IW please 😭😭😭 Metaphor was a very close third tho

1) Astro bot
2) Dragon Age Veilguard
3) Stellar Blade

There are a couple of others I might pick up in January sales where the Pro patches fixed them up.

Can we really put SMTV in the competition? It’s a 3 years old game who was already nominated for awards at that time. Still voted for it in 2nd place!

Astro Bot
Dragon Age
Silent Hill 2

I only voted for what I've completed/played extensively from that list:

5 Helldivers 2 (most online fun with friends since daily Warzone during the pandemic lockdowns)
4 Astro Bot (really a 5 too, took me back to the glory days of platforming).
3 Still Wakes the Deep (The Thing fans rejoice!)

I have enjoyed many other cracking games this year on PC, Quest 3 and Xbox plus an utterly insane backlog means I'm hoping for a relatively quiet 2025 release schedule but I doubt that'll happen!

@Americansamurai1
Switched for me!

1. Helldivers 2
2. Astro Bot
3. Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2
4. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
5. Tekken 8

Those are the big games I played this year on PlayStation in order of my personal enjoyment. Helldivers 2 dethroned Destiny 2 to become my third most played game ever behind World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm.

Astro Bot my personal gott but Stellar Blade is a close second, I can't believe it wasn't nominated for anything 😐

1. Astro Bot
2. Kunitsu Gami
3. FF VII Rebirth
4. Unicorn Overlord
5. Helldivers 2

1. Astro Bot
2. FF7 Rebirth
3. Stellar Blade
4. Metaphor Refantazio
5. Unicorn Overlord

1. Nine Sols
2. Stellar Blade
3. Helldivers 2
4. Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth
5. Astro Bot

Honorable mentions would be Another Crab's Treasure, Silent Hill 2 and Black Myth Wukong.
I have yet to play FF7 Rebirth since I'm waiting for the PC release.

Silent Hill 2 is the only game I played on my PS5 this year. And that's not even an exclusive, it's a timed exclusive. But whatever. I mean, this year was some slim pickins for the PS5. My Series X got most of the attention.

Lol PushSquare's GOTY is always a PS exclusive, so it's Astro Bot of course.

@ShogunRok is the game until then meant to be until dawn?

I voted,

Persona 3 Reload
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth
Still Wakes the Deep
And in 5th should have been Nobody Wants to Die. But it's not listed, so I left it blank.

Most of the list, I haven't played such as Astrobot, Stellar Blade, Metaphor, Wukong, Silent Hill 2, and others.

I haven’t played Helldivers 2 since the summer but had to give it GoTY because of how many hours I put into it and how much fun it was to play with friends/strangers.

Balatro number 2

1 stellar blade
2 astro bot
3 final fantasy rebirth
4 persona 3 reload
5 Tekken 8

On PS5 it was only Astro Bot. Nothing else caught my attention this year. My GOTY this year was Indiana Jones, hands down.

@Ajfennell77 Nah, Until Then is a visual novel that got really good reviews (including our own!).

Playing Animal well right now.. and it's reconfiguring my top 5.

@PorkChopExpress glad to see more appreciation for Still Wakes the Deep which had obvious The Thing influences among several others. And you're clearly a John Carpenter fan!

1. Stellar Blade
2. Astro Bot
3. Metaphor
4. Silent Hill 2
5. FFVII Rebirth

Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2

Easy. 😸

Only played 4 on this list, so that’s what I voted for. Didn’t see Grounded or that would’ve been my 5th

@PorkChopExpress Nobody Wants to Die that good huh? Considered purchasing but with PS Plus, I always second guess myself anymore thinking it’ll be on the service eventually.

@TheArt tbf, it says “PS5 Game of the Year” and Astro made the best use of the tech.

I'm glad everyone agrees it's Silent Hill 2 and Dragons Dogma 2 in joint first 👍 that's good.

My GOTY 2024 is BARBIE : PROJECT FRIENDSHIP

Thanks to Outright Games for providing this girlie games for kids on PS5. 😊

Dragon's Dogma 2 for me.