gamescom 2024 Award Winners Revealed: Monster Hunter Wilds Wins Big

gamescom 2024 has come and gone, and as the annual event ends, now comes the time for awards to games that appeared this year. With categories, such as best visuals and audio to more platform-specific ones (excluding Nintendo this year), like best Xbox games, this list provides every gamescom 2024 award and this year’s recipient.

Of this year’s recipients, Capcom’s upcoming project, Monster Hunter Wilds, won the most awards, winning in every single category it was nominated in, such as Most Entertaining and Most Epic. Supermassive Games and Bandai Namco’s upcoming project, Little Nightmares 3, also won multiple accolades, winning three out of the four categories it was nominated for, such as Best Visuals and Best Audio.

If you want to know more, check out the biggest announcements at this year’s gamescom. If you want to know what was specifically unveiled at Opening Night Live earlier this week, check out our roundup.

The full list of winners for the gamescom 2023 awards are as follows:

gamescom Awards 2024 Winners:

Best Trailer

• Monster Hunter Wilds [Winner]

Best of Show Floor

• WINNER: Microsoft / Xbox / Bethesda / Blizzard

Visuals

• WINNER: Little Nightmares 3
• Crimson Desert
• Dune: Awakening
• Empire of the Ants
• Star Wars Outlaws

Audio

• WINNER: Little Nightmares 3
• Dune: Awakening
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• Nine Sols
• Star Wars Outlaws

Gameplay

• WINNER: Frostpunk 2
• Blue Prince
• Empire of the Ants
• PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant
• The Alters

Most Entertaining

• WINNER: Monster Hunter Wilds
• inZoi
• Palworld
• PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant
• Star Wars Outlaws

Most Epic

• WINNER: Monster Hunter Wilds
• Crimson Desert
• Dune: Awakening
• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
• Star Wars Outlaws

Most Wholesome

• WINNER: Tavern Talk
• Creatures of Ava
• Tiny Bookshop
• Urban Jungle
• Woodo

Games for Impact

• WINNER: Creatures of Ava
• GreenGuardiansVR
• Out & About
• REKA
• Tiny Bookshop

Best Xbox Game

• WINNER: Little Nightmares 3
• Age of Mythology: Retold
• Creatures of Ava
• Star Wars Outlaws
• The Alters

Best PC Game

• WINNER: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
• Dune Awakening
• Empire of the Ants
• Frostpunk 2
• The Alters

Best PlayStation Game

• WINNER: Monster Hunter Wilds
• Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
• Little Nightmares 3
• The First Berserker: Khazan
• Unknown 9: Awakening

Best Mobile Game

• WINNER: Genshin Impact
• Digital Animals Game
• Dungeons of Dreadlock 2 – The Dead King’s Secret
• Monster Hunter Now
• Zenless Zone Zero

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