Siliconera’s PlayStation Game of the Year 2024

It’s that time again! Over the next few days, Siliconera is celebrating the best of 2024, with platform awards each day until the overall winner next week. Read on for our PlayStation Game of the Year selections!

These awards represent the consensus of the Siliconera staff. Multiplatform games are considered on the platform for which they received the most staff support. For more of the year’s award selections, check out our Game of the Year 2024 archive.

Astro Bot

While Sony’s dismantling of its Japanese studios has been heartbreaking, its last group standing put in the work and showed just how good games could be. But hey, we’re not kidding ourselves; we’re probably just getting this game and not a full rebuild of what was. Still, what a game it is! The best platformer without Mario in the title (and better than a lot of them with it), Astro Bot takes the warm fuzzies of nostalgia and surrounds them with well-crafted levels and super-polished mechanics. The little bot’s previous adventures have been wonderful, too! But this is the first one without any need for asterisks: a great, full game for everyone.

Metaphor: ReFantazio

The combat and characters of Metaphor paper over the game’s many rough narrative elements, building a high fantasy take on Persona that holds up well to lofty expectations. (And the soundtrack is of course stellar.) It’s familiar enough to make long-time Atlus-heads happy, while sporting a fresh enough setting to add variety to the studio’s catalog. (Check out Stephanie’s review for a deeper dive into Metaphor.)

Winner: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

While we briefly considered giving the award directly to in-world card game Queen’s Blood, the whole of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is worthy of our PlayStation Game of the Year 2024 honor. This excellent return to the world of Square Enix’s most famous game is filled with love and care, meeting (and subverting) the expectations of longtime fans. (But yeah, also, you should definitely check out Queen’s Blood.)

What is your PlayStation Game of the Year 2024? Let us know in the comments!

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