Introducing the Xbox Excellence Awards, Honoring the Studios Behind the Video games You Liked Most in 2024

Wonderful video games are on the coronary heart of our mission to carry the enjoyment and group of gaming to everybody on the planet. Now, extra screens than ever might be an Xbox, and people screens are lit up by the unbelievable portfolio of video games dropped at life by proficient builders around the globe. These groups create unforgettable gaming experiences that have interaction and encourage gamers of all ages. As a thanks to the creators of these video games, and to shine a lightweight on the video games that gamers liked in 2024, at this time we’re saying the recipients of the 2024 Xbox Excellence Awards.

With over a thousand video games launching yearly on Xbox consoles, PC and cloud, this may very well be a case of merely choosing a panel to determine – however the Excellence Awards are all about how you engaged with Xbox over the past yr. To assemble the listing, we chosen 4 key classes that are indicators of gamers’ ardour, engagement, and love for these video games. These 4 classes are:

  • Retailer Score: Highest-rated content material throughout our shops launched in 2024, with a minimal of 500 rankings.
  • Participant Engagement: Video games with the very best common hours per participant inside the first six weeks of launch.
  • Every day Lively Customers: Video games, expansions, or main updates with the very best single-day lively customers in 2024. Chances are you’ll discover video games that weren’t launched in 2024 on this listing – that’s as a result of they acquired a major replace final yr.
  • Items Bought: High-selling content material throughout Xbox and Microsoft shops.

The ultimate listing represents a various assortment of titles produced by studios comprised of wherever from tens to hundreds of builders, situated in 15 totally different nations worldwide. Yow will discover the titles for every class – listed alphabetically – beneath.

Retailer Score Participant Engagement Every day Lively Customers Items Bought
Balatro Dragon Age: The Veilguard Apex Legends 7 Days to Die
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Dragon’s Dogma 2 Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Botany Manor EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 Useless Island 2 Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 6
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth EA Sports activities FC 25 Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Little Kitty, Huge Metropolis F1 Supervisor 2024 EA Sports activities School Soccer 25 Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
Lollipop Chainsaw RePop Farming Simulator 25 EA Sports activities FC 25 Dragon’s Dogma 2
Metaphor: ReFantazio Remaining Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree EA Sports activities School Soccer 25
No one Needs to Die Home Flipper 2 Fallout 4 EA Sports activities FC 25
Persona 3 Reload Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Fortnite EA Sports activities Madden NFL 25
Poppy Playtime: Chapter 1, 2, 3 Metaphor: ReFantazio Forza Horizon 5 Farming Simulator 25
Return to Grace MLB The Present 24 Grand Theft Auto On-line Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Rounds NBA 2K25 Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle MLB The Present 24
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II New World: Aeternum Marvel Rivals NBA 2K25
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance NHL 25 Minecraft NHL 25
Sonic x Shadow Generations Path of Exile 2 MLB The Present 24 Palworld
Nonetheless Wakes the Deep Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Palworld Phasmophobia
The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cranium and Bones Roblox Star Wars Outlaws
The Outlast Trials Star Wars Outlaws Rocket League The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
Unicorn Overlord Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 Coronary heart of Chornobyl Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2
Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2 WWE 2K24 Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege WWE 2K24

Builders and publishers will obtain their trophies shortly, so be looking out to see how they have fun!

Considering of becoming a member of the numerous gamers that helped these video games grow to be award winners? Check out our assortment of video games which have obtained an Xbox Excellence Award for 2024 on the Xbox Retailer.