Unreal Engine games celebrated at The Game Awards 2024

Last night, The Game Awards 2024 took place at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles to recognize and celebrate the creativity, tenacity, and technical excellence in the global games industry.

Unreal Engine developers were honored with nominations across 26 of the 29 categories including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Mobile Game, Best Debut Indie Game, and more. Many amazing Unreal Engine developers also revealed and announced new games during the live show.

Congratulations to all developers for their achievements! You can check out the Unreal Engine-powered game nominations and winners below.

Asgard's Wrath 2
Sanzaru Games I Oculus Studios
Nominee: Best VR/AR

Possess unique mortal heroes and convert loyal animals into your own warrior followers as you explore a massive, free-roaming and living world and solve mind-bending god-scale puzzles in Asgard's Wrath 2.

Black Myth: Wukong
Game Science I Game Science
Nominee: Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, Best Action Game
Winner: Best Action Game, Player’s Voice

Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. The story is based on Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past. Find out how Game Science used UE5 to create the game in our developer interview.

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Spike Chunsoft I Bandai Namco
Nominee: Best Fighting

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Become a super warrior and experience the earth-shaking, limit-breaking power of Dragon Ball battles.

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH
Square Enix I Square Enix
Nominee: Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design, Best Performance
Winner: Best Score and Music

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is the highly anticipated new story in the FINAL FANTASY VII remake project, a reimagining of the iconic original game into three standalone titles by its original creators. In this game, players enjoy various new elements as the story unfolds, culminating in the party’s journey to “The Forgotten Capital” from the original FINAL FANTASY VII. 

Fortnite
Epic Games I Epic Games
Nominee: Best Ongoing, Best Community Support

We were honored to see our very own Fortnite nominated for Best Ongoing Game and Best Community Support—especially given the strength of the other games released this year.

Frostpunk 2
11 Bit Studios I 11 Bit Studios
Nominee: Best Sim/Strategy
Winner: Best Sim/Strategy

Develop, expand, and advance your city in a society survival game set 30 years after an apocalyptic blizzard ravaged Earth. In Frostpunk 2, you face not only the perils of never-ending winter, but also the powerful factions that watch your every step inside the Council Hall.

GranBlue Fantasy Versus: Rising
Arc System Works  I Cygames
Nominee: Best FIghting

Rise to the challenge in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising. This powered up, revamped sequel to GBVS is more enjoyable and accessible than ever before. With simplified input options, even newcomers can engage in thrilling and strategic matches.

INDIKA
Odd Meter I 11 Bit Studios
Nominee: Games for Impact

Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure
Deck Nine I Square Enix
Nominee: Best Performance, Games for Impact

When Max Caulfield finds her friend Safi dead in the snow, she tears open the way to a parallel timeline. Here, Safi is still alive—and still in danger! With her new power to shift between two timelines—can Max solve and prevent the same murder?

Manor Lords
Slavic Magic I Slavic Magic
Nominee: Best Debut Indie Game, Best Sim/Strategy

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord—the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall. Find out how the solo developer created this sophisticated RTS in our developer interview.

Metro: Awakening
Vertigo Games I Vertigo Games
Nominee: Best VR/AR

Metro: Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth, and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation, and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.

MultiVersus
Player First Games I WB Games
Nominee: Best Fighting

Step into the fray of the MultiVerse, where every match is a wild jamboree of iconic characters throwing down in wonderfully weird ways.

Pacific Drive
Ironwood Studios  I Kepler Interactive
Nominee: Best Debut Indie Game

Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone in Pacific Drive with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure. Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.

SILENT HILL 2
Bloober Team I Konami
Nominee: Best Narrative, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design, Best Performance, Best Action / Adventure

Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories—Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.

Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
Ninja Theory I Xbox Game Studios
Nominee: Best Narrative, Best Audio Design, Best Performance, Games for Impact
Winner: Best Audio Design, Best Performance

The sequel to the award winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.  Watch our profile of the game to find out more.

Stellar Blade
Shift Up I Sony Interactive Entertainment
Nominee: Best Score and Music, Best Action Game

Ravaged by strange, powerful creatures, Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of the decimated human race has fled to a Colony in outer space. Save humanity from extinction in this electrifying story-driven action adventure.

Tales of Kenzera: Zau
Surgent Studios I Electronic Arts 
Nominee: Games for Impact

Wield the dance of the shaman. Reclaim your father’s spirit. Brave the beautiful and treacherous land of Kenzera with the God of Death in Tales of Kenzera: ZAU, a metroidvania-style adventure crafted by Surgent Studios.

TEKKEN 8
Bandai Namco I Bandai Namco
Nominee: Best Fighting, Best Multiplayer
Winner: Best Fighting

The eighth installment of the iconic fighting game franchise continues the tragic saga of the Mishima and Kazama bloodlines and their world-shaking father-and-son grudge matches.

The Plucky Squire
All Possible Futures I Devolver Digital
Nominee: Best Debut Indie Game, Best Family

Storybook characters discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book and must jump between 2D and 3D realms to save their friends in this charming action-adventure. Find out more in our developer interview.

VALORANT
Riot Games I Riot Games
Nominee: Best eSports Game

VALORANT is a character-based 5v5 tactical shooter set on the global stage. Outwit, outplay, and outshine your competition with tactical abilities, precise gunplay, and adaptive teamwork. Find out more in our developer interview.

Wuthering Waves
Kuro Games I Kuro Games
Nominee: Best Mobile Game

Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and surmount the Lament. Find out more in our developer interview.