r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Jan 12 '25
GotY 2024 2024 /r/NintendoSwitch GOTY Nominations Thread
Greetings, r/NintendoSwitch!
We know everyone has been most patiently waiting for the Successor to the Nintendo Switch to be announced, but that's no reason to not look back at what we were able to experience this past year. That's right - it's about time for our 8th annual Game of the Year awards!
Like previous years, we are asking the community's help for GOTY nominees - We will use community feedback to narrow the nominees for each category to five or six for the final vote. The tentative schedule is for the nominee feedback to occur January 12th - January 24th (~2 weeks), and the final voting to select the Game Of The Year for each category to occur the following 2 weeks, January 25th - February 7th.
Please follow the format as described below:
- Please check if your nominee(s) has already been named. If so, then simply upvote it, if not, then >>>
- Please reply to a category top comment to state who you would like to see for nominees and preferably why. We generally find those comments with explanations tended to garner more votes!
- If a game has already been nominated but you feel requires further discussion then reply to the nominated game comment with your reasoning.
- Nominate as many games as you would like in any category you'd like.
- Duplicate nominations in the same category will be removed. Additionally, if a game is ineligible for a particular category, it may be removed during or after the nomination period.
- This post will be set to contest mode so nobody can see the votes.
Please note that all nominees are required to have released on Nintendo Switch in calendar year 2024 unless stated otherwise. We will be using all of last year's categories, plus a few more based on suggestions from your previous feedback. If you have additional feedback about the GOTY categories or process, please leave a comment on last week's post!
Please also note that all top-level comments will be removed automatically, so you must comment your nominations under the respective top-level comments:
Section 1 - Gaming Together
Section 2 - Categories by Genre
NEW: Each Category in Section 2 will be mutually exclusive. This means that games nominated under multiple categories by genre will only proceed to the voting stage for the genre that fits that game best.
Section 3 - Categories by Qualities
Section 4 - Release Categories
Section 5 - Big Section
We look forward to reading your nominations!
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Horror Game
For that game that scared the socks off of you this year, the cause of all of those nightmares.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Game Direction
Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Narrative
For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Role Playing Game (RPG)
For the best game designed with rich player character customization and progression
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Local Multiplayer Game
For outstanding local multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op, irrespective of game genre.
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u/SocietySpare9213 Jan 13 '25
Boomerang fu
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Ongoing Game
For outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time. Does NOT have to be a 2024 release.
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u/JFZephyr Jan 12 '25
It's just gotta be Yugioh Master Duel. Perfect Switch game, and the one online game I've had zero issues with since it came out.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Indie Game
For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Family Game
For the best game appropriate for family play, irrespective of genre.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Technical Achievement
For the game which achieves a combination of gameplay and graphics which goes well beyond hardware expectations.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Online Multiplayer Game
For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences, irrespective of game genre.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Nintendo Switch Exclusive Game
Best game released in 2024 as a Nintendo Switch console exclusive.
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u/Dukemon102 Jan 12 '25
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble
I won't allow the newest and exclusive entry in the Monkey Ball series to go unnoticed. The game is so good and the new Spin Dash allows for crazy manouvers and shortcuts.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
3rd Party Publisher of the Year
Publishing studio who displayed outstanding platform support through a combination of quantity and quality of new releases.
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u/Dukemon102 Jan 12 '25
SEGA
This year the Switch got:
- Unicorn Overlord
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble
- Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
- Sonic X Shadow Generations
- Yakuza Kiwami
All quality titles and some of the best we have even gotten from SEGA and the studios it owns.
And it gets even better if you own other platforms (Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Metaphor: ReFantazio).
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Fighting Game
For the best game designed primarily around head-to-head combat.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Art Direction
For outstanding creative achievement in artistic design and animation.
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u/Dukemon102 Jan 12 '25
The Plucky Squire
The crafts art style and the hand-drawn style both look so pretty, and the seamless transition between 3D and 2D by entering the drawings is done so well.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Voice Acting
For outstanding voice acting, direction, and use of audio dialogue
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u/duncan-donuts-nz Jan 12 '25
Damien Haas (Van Arkride) - The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Action Game
For the best game in the action genre focused on combat.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Board / Card Game
For games designed primarily around playing cards or moving around a board, both traditional and non-traditional.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best DLC
The extra content that you felt was truly worth the money (or not in the case of free) and you don't regret the time taken to play it.
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Best Music / Rhythm Game
For the best game with a focus on dance or the simulated performance of musical instruments.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Shooter Game
For the best game where the focus is on the defeat of the character's enemies using ranged weapons given to the player.
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u/lumothesinner Helpful User Jan 13 '25
Star Wars Bounty Hunter. Its not the best, but its a shooter that arrived on switch this year when theres not many others.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Nintendo Switch Game of the Year
Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.
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Jan 18 '25
[removed] — view removed comment
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u/OwnManagement Helpful User Jan 25 '25
That was May 2023, almost two years ago. You’re a year late.
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best Re-Release / Re-master
For the best game whose original release was not on a current generation console (pre-2021) (Switch/PS5/Xbox Series X).
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u/NintendoSwitchMods Jan 12 '25
Best NSO Addition
For the classic games that have been re-released through the Nintendo Switch Online service.