The winners of the GAM3 Awards 2024 have been announced! All 21 champions were revealed at a live event presented in partnership with Yield Guild Games (YGG) on November 22nd, celebrating the year's biggest achievements in web3 gaming.
After an intense competition between the industry's top games, creators, and ecosystems, the victors were unveiled during the 2-hour in-person event in Manila, streamed live across all major platforms. Each winner earned their spot by demonstrating exceptional progress over the past 12 months.
The 2024 Winners
Here is the full list of winners:
- 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
- Game of the Year: Off the Grid
The GAM3 Awards 2024 Winners Announced
Prizes and Partners
The GAM3 Awards 2024 featured an expanded $5 million prize pool, including grants, products, services, marketing support, and blockchain support from partners like AWS, XAI, Thirdweb, Aethir, and Community Gaming to help finalists and winners scale their projects.
This marked a significant jump from previous years, reinforcing the event's dedication to nurturing the next wave of web3 games. Beyond YGG, partnerships with Arbitrum, Magic Eden, Immutable, Avalanche, and Skale helped make this year's ceremony the most ambitious yet.
Meet the Jury
Jury and Voting
Over 70 prominent figures from traditional and blockchain gaming served on this year's jury, with many returning from previous ceremonies. The panel included representatives from Amazon, Google, Samsung, Ubisoft, Animoca Brands, Immutable, Arbitrum, Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), Base, Ronin, and Avalanche, alongside content creators and industry voices.
The voting structure gave the jury 90% of the final say, with the community contributing the remaining 10% for most categories. People's Choice and Best Content Creator were decided entirely by community votes at 100%, while Games' Choice let shortlisted studios vote for their favorite title game.
Community participation reached over 1 Million votes from more than 143k unique voters. The GAM3 Awards 2024 announcement dropped in early October. From there, hundreds of web3 games rallied their communities to nominate and vote across different categories. Thousands of social posts from partners, games, content creators, and community members generated over 60 Million impressions.
GAM£ Awards 2024 Statistics
Final Thoughts
The GAM3 Awards 2024 ceremony on November 22nd hit a peak viewership of 48k CCV, pulling over 450k views in the first 24 hours. Off The Grid by Gunzilla Games swept four awards, including the top prize: "Game of the Year". Parallel followed with three awards, while Pixels and Pirate Nation each claimed two.
With more than 300 in-person attendees, viewers saw gameplay premieres and exclusive trailers from Golden Tides, Unfettered, Elumia, Providence, Shrapnel, Raven Quest, Mighty Bear Games, Revenge, Trail Xtreme, Warped, and more. All signs point to a strong future for web3 gaming heading into 2025, with the event set to return next November for its fourth consecutive year.
