The Game Awards 2024: All The Biggest Announcements

A brand-new Ninja Gaiden game was the first announcement of the night, as Dotemu has partnered with Koei Tecmo and The Game Kitchen–developers of Blasphemous–for Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, coming next year.

One Move Away is a new VR game from Ramage Games and Playstack about packing up and moving to a new home. It is set to launch in 2025 on Steam.

Next was a gameplay trailer for Slay The Spire 2, the sequel to the indie hit deckbuilding RPG from Megacrit. This new edition will launch in early access in 2025.

Dave The Diver is headed to the jungle in his next adventure, but it was not clear if In The Jungle is another expansion or a full-blown sequel. Dave The Diver In The Jungle is set for a late 2025 release.

Thick As Thieves is a new multiplayer immersive stealth game from Warren Spector, one of the minds behind Thief and Deus Ex. Players will choose from multiple character archetypes, including The Hood, The Spider, and the Chameleon.

Shadow Labyrinth is a new metroidvania-style game from Bandai Namco, where a hooded figure must traverse a dangerous world with a robot that looks and acts suspiciously like Pac-Man in tow. It is scheduled to launch in 2025 for consoles and PC.

The next game from Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki and in partnership with Netflix Games, Steel Paws is set for a 2025 launch on mobile devices.

Kyora is a multiplayer exploration game from Pug Storm, the developers of Core Keeper. The trailer showed multiple player characters exploring the depths below the village in search of the unknown.

Sloclap has announced its next project: Re/Match, an arcade soccer game with walls around the field allowing for slick trick shots. No specific release date has been announced.

Solasta 2 pits players against a dark force led by an evil sorceress named Shadwyn. This turn-based tactical RPG, based on SRD 5e, is set for release next year.

CD Projekt Red marked the first world premiere of The Game Awards’s main show, with a first look at The Witcher 4. The trailer follows Ciri, the protagonist for this next game, as she tries to prevent a human sacrifice by killing a demon terrorizing a small village.

From Software followed CD Projekt Red’s surprise announcement with a surprise of its own. Elden Right: Nightreign’s debut trailer showed multiple Tarnished fighting against massive bosses across The Lands Between.

Fumito Ueda, the creator of Ico, Shadow Of The Colossus, and The Last Guardian, surprised The Game Awards audience with a brief look at his next game. Currently untitled, the brief trailer showed a human trying to avoid a cataclysmic wave, only to fall short.

The latest from Hazelight Studios and Josef Fares, Split Fiction is another co-op adventure like It Takes Two and No Way Out. This time, two story writers– one who writes sci-fi, the other fantasy–must traverse levels swapping between both genres in order to escape the simulation they’re stuck in.

Wargaming’s next IP is Steel Hunters, a 12-person multiplayer shooter that’s part hero shooter, part battle royale, and part extraction shooter. Players control massive mechs called Hunters as they fight for Starfall, a rare substance that powers a post-apocalyptic world.

Randy Pitchford took the stage to reveal the first gameplay trailer for Borderlands 4, which also mixed in some story spotlights in the form of a massive war between familiar bandits and an invading force.

The last character for Tekken 8’s Year 1 Character Pass was revealed to be Clive Rosfield, the protagonist from Final Fantasy XVI. He will be available for download December 16.

A new Virtua Fighter entry was confirmed by Sega. It will be developed by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, known for the Yakuza/Like A Dragon franchsie.

Ryu Ga Gotoku wasn’t done, however, as it also shown a gameplay trailer for Project Century, a third-person action game set in Japan in 1915.