The Golden Joystick Awards, one of the oldest and biggest public-voted gaming accolades, returned for its 42nd year Over 12 million votes had been cast to crown the favourite games, companies, and personalities The Ultimate Game of the Year award has gone to Black Myth: Wukong Both Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Helldivers 2 have bagged the most awards,

Rebirth’ claimed four gongs–and the incredible indie hit ‘Balatro’ picked up two–but the public favored ‘Black Myth: Wukong’ for GOTY.

The 2024 Golden Joystick Awards are behind us, and we've learned the winners of all 19 categories and the Ultimate Game of the Year winner.

Wukong pipped Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Helldivers 2 to win the top honour at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024. The

Game Science’s action epic triumphs in public vote

The votes have been cast and counted, and the winner declared: Black Myth: Wukong is the winner of Ultimate Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024.

Wukong from Chinese developer Game Science came out of nowhere to become one of the year's best-selling games. Considering it's a single-player outing, a new IP, and Game Science's first console title,

Wukong has teased “some surprises” for later this year. Accepting the Game of the Year award via video message at the Golden Joysticks, Game Science co-founder Feng Ji encouraged people who have yet to buy the smash hit action game to now do so.