Gam3 Awards unveils 2024 winners for top Web3 games
The winners of the Gam3 Awards 2024 have been crowned, with 21 winners revealed at a live event in partnership with Yield Guild Games (YGG).
This year’s prize pool was $5 million, up from $2 million for last year’s awards.
Off the Grid, a high-end battle royale game, won Game of the Year. The organizers said this year’s winners are a celebration of how far the web3 gaming industry has come.
The winners were revealed during the two-hour in-person event in Manila and across all major live-streaming platforms. Each game, content creator, and ecosystem managed to top their category to stand out among their peers based on the progress made over the past 12 months.
The 2024 Winners
Here is the full list of winners:
Game of the Year: Off the Grid
Best Fighting Game: Champions Ascension
Best Art Direction: Moonfrost
Best Browser: Pirate Nation
Best Mobile Game: Fableborne
Best RPG: Big Time
Best Strategy Game: Parallel
Best Action Game: Off the Grid
Best Casual Game: Pixels
Best Sports Game: Sparkball
Best Adventure Game: Ravenquest
Best Card Game: Parallel
Best Shooter Game: Off the Grid
Best Content Creator: YellowPanther
Best On-Chain Game: Pirate Nation
Best Ecosystem: Ronin
Games’ Choice: Wildcard
Best Esports Game: Parallel
Best Multiplayer Game: Off the Grid
People’s Choice: Pixels
Most Anticipated Game: MapleStory Universe
Prizes and Partners
Among the updates for 2024 Gam3 Awards was the increased $5 million prize pool, which consisted of grants, products, services, marketing, and blockchain support from partners such as AWS, XAI, Thirdweb, Aethir, and Community Gaming among others to help finalists and winners grow even further.
This represented a substantial increase from previous years and underscored our event’s commitment to supporting and fostering the next generation of Web3 games. In addition to YGG, Gam3 also partnered with Arbitrum, Magic Eden, Immutable, Avalanche, and Skale to make this year’s event even bigger and better than previous years.
Jury and Voting
This year’s jury featured over 70 prominent traditional and blockchain gaming figures, with many returning jurors from previous ceremonies. The diverse panel included representatives from powerhouses such as Amazon, Google, Samsung, Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, Immutable, Arbitrum, Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), Base, Ronin, and Avalanche, as well as content creators and major media outlets such as GamesBeat/VentureBeat. Yep, I was a judge for the second year in a row.
Much like previous years, the voting process saw the jury’s votes represent 90% of the final decision, with the community making up the remaining 10% for most categories except People’s Choice and Best Content Creator, which were both 100% community voting-based, and Games’ Choice, which is based on shortlisted game studios voting for their favorite title game.
Conclusion
The organizers said this year’s GAM3 Awards was the most significant event in Web3 gaming yet as a celebration of the entire industry, showcasing the best games, studios, and innovators in the space. With over 300 in-person attendees, viewers got to witness gameplay premiers and exclusive premier trailers from the best games in the space. The organizers said that is all a testament to the bright future of Web3 gaming as it heads into 2025 with the event expected to return next November for its fourth consecutive edition.
Gam3s.gg is a Web3 gaming super app with over a million registered users that curates and creates content to spotlight the top games and showcase reviews, guides, news, quests, annual awards, and more. It has been around as a Web3 game discovery platform and one-stop shop for three years.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a Web3 Guild Protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in Web3 gaming.
As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG is committed to providing opportunities for its members to achieve success in Web3 gaming through questing initiatives such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP). These enable members to build their onchain identity through its achievement-based reputation system.
From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 100 blockchain games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts.
About YGG Play Summit
The YGG Play Summit explores the intersection of gaming and the emerging web3 ecosystem, featuring a hackathon, a conference, a game expo, and esports tournaments. It features opportunities for attendees to connect and provide valuable insights into the future of gaming, digital ownership, and the top projects of web3 globally.
The conference focuses on the business of Web3 gaming and the future of the gaming industry. Speakers include founders and C-level executives from venture funds, crypto exchanges, protocols, and web3 wallets, alongside gaming studios, esports teams, guilds, and the gaming community.
