Balatro also grabbed five nominations Nominations for The Game Awards 2024 are in, and Astro Bot and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth are leading the pack. READ MORE: ‘Indiana Jones And The Great Circle’ is a Nazi-bashing adventure worthy of the whiptastic great Astro Bot has been nominated for seven awards, which makes sense as critics called it “one of the finest platformers ever made”. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth , is also up for seven awards.
NME gave the game five stars , writing “this first-class remake will put you on cloud nine”. The full list on niminations are: Game of the Year Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE) Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack) Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science) Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix) Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega) Best Game Direction Astro Bot (Team Asobi/SIE) Balatro (LocalThunk/Playstack) Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science) Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix) Metaphor: ReFantazio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega) Best Adaptation Arcane (Riot/Fortiche/Netflix) Fallout (Bethesda/Kilter Films/Amazon MGM Studios) Knuckles (Sega/Paramount) Like a Dragon: Yakuza (Sega/Amazon MGM Studios) Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (Crystal Dynamics/Legendary/Netflix) Best Narrative Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix) Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio/Sega) Metaphor: ReFantanzio (Studio Zero/Atlus/Sega) .