2024 was full of surprises. Not all of them good! 2024 was a rough year, y’all. But sometimes surprises can be wonderful, and in this category we explore the things that caught us off guard in a good way. All sorts of things can be involved in this category, be it patches, games, DLC, or in one case, an entire restructuring of games distribution.
These are the Best Surprises of 2024.
The Nominees Are:
Castlevania: Dominus Collection
Celeste 64
Dragon Ball FighterZ Patch 1.38
Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club
The Jackbox Survey Scramble
Killer Instinct 10th Anniversary Update
Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau
Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
Steam Family Sharing Update
Terry Bogard in Street Fighter 6
Tetrachroma
UFO 50
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.
Webfishing
Here’s our write-up for the winners!
Our intro and outro music for the Gimmick Awards 2024 is Afternoon After the Rain by Kazuki Kaneko, and our art is a commission from Sarracenian on Bluesky.
