Game of the Year Awards 2024 - Best RPG

Here are the winners of the Game of The Year 2024 as voted by our members:

Best RPG - Gamers' Choice: Drova - Forsaken Kin

The pixel art Action-RPG Drova - Forsaken Kin is the surprise RPG of 2024. It proves that good games can be made on a budget. Just like in the old Gothic RPGs the game's main focus is exploration, surviving and challenging combat. When you are wandering through the captivating world you keep saying to yourself "just one more quest..." - a worthy number one.

Gamers' Runner Up: SKALD: Against the Black Priory

The retro RPG SKALD: Against the Black Priory is an impressive solo project. This RPG features party based tactical combat, a very good fantasy horror setting and mature storystelling. All in all a well crafted modernization of old school RPGs and a well earned second place!

 

Gamers' Third Place: Dragon's Dogma 2

Dragon's Dogma 2, the sequel of the 2012 hit, was created by the motto "Never change a running system". So it's basically the old Dragon's Dogma with some new quality of life features - enough for a third place. 

The Numbers

The following table shows the results of the voting by our members:

Gamers' Choice

Rank	Game
1	Drova - Forsaken Kin
2	SKALD: Against the Black Priory
3	Dragon's Dogma 2
4	Fallout London
4	S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
5	Metaphor: ReFantazio
5	Dragon Age: The Veilguard
6	Caves of Qud
7	Songs of Conquest
8	Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
8	Zoria: Age of Shattering
9	Last Epoch
10	The Thaumaturge
11	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
11	V Rising
12	The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak
12	Alaloth: Champions of the Four Kingdoms
12	Outcast - A New Beginning
13	Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition
13	Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
14	Monsters of Mican
14	Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters
15	Black Myth: Wukong
15	Sovereign Syndicate
15	Felvidek
16	Our Adventurer Guild
16	The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
16	Pixel Noir
16	King Arthur: Legion IX
17	Arco
17	Persona 3 Reload
18	Zenless Zone Zero
18	The Nameless: Slay Dragon
18	Mirthwood
18	Ruzar - The Dark Stones
18	Another Crabs Treasure
18	Ys X: Nordics
18	Glorious Companions
18	Starcom: Unknown Space
19	Capes
19	Dawn of the Ashen Queen
19	Broken Roads
19	Wuthering Waves
19	Dungeons of Hinterberg
19	Final Fantasy XVI
19	Granblue Fantasy: Relink
19	Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
19	Kingsvein
19	StarCrawlers Chimera
19	Passageway of the Ancients
19	Geneforge 2 - Infestation

Most Watchers voted for None this time. This shows that 2024 was a year of weaker AAA releases and the indie-devs and modders (Fallout London) took advantage of their chance. 

The votes of the editors were too varied, so that no game could be marked as Editors' Choice.

PS: RPGwatch uses the Sequential/Dense ranking ("1223" ranking)