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Announcing the Xbox Excellence Awards: Celebrating the Studios Behind Your Favorite 2024 Games

by Steven Dougherty
January 24, 2025
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At the core of our mission is the belief that amazing games are essential to spreading the joy and community that gaming brings to people everywhere. Thanks to technological advancements, more screens than ever can function as an Xbox. These screens are illuminated by an impressive array of games, each one brought to life by skilled developers from all around the globe. These creative teams are responsible for crafting unforgettable gaming experiences that capture the imaginations of players of all ages. To show appreciation for these talented creators and to highlight the games that captured players’ hearts in 2024, we’re excited to reveal the winners of the 2024 Xbox Excellence Awards.

Every year, over a thousand games make their debut on Xbox consoles, PC, and the cloud. You might think choosing winners is just about convening a panel for decision-making, but the Excellence Awards are a true reflection of how you’ve engaged with Xbox over the past year. We focused on four key categories that reveal players’ enthusiasm, involvement, and love for these games. These categories are:

Store Rating: The highest-rated content released in 2024, determined by a minimum of 500 ratings.

Player Engagement: Games that achieved the highest average playtime per player during the first six weeks post-launch.

Daily Active Users: Games, expansions, or major updates that saw the most active users on a single day in 2024. Some games on this list might not have been released this year but received significant updates.

Units Sold: Top-selling content across Xbox and Microsoft stores.

The result is a diverse collection of outstanding titles, created by teams ranging from a few dozen developers to thousands, spread across 15 countries worldwide. You’ll find the games that excelled in each category, presented alphabetically, below.

Store Rating Player Engagement Daily Active Users Units Sold
Balatro Dragon Age: The Veilguard Apex Legends 7 Days to Die
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Dragon’s Dogma 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Botany Manor EA Sports College Football 25 Dead Island 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth EA Sports FC 25 Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Little Kitty, Big City F1 Manager 2024 EA Sports College Football 25 Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
Lollipop Chainsaw RePop Farming Simulator 25 Dragon’s Dogma 2 EA Sports FC 25
Metaphor: ReFantazio Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree EA Sports College Football 25
Nobody Wants to Die House Flipper 2 Fallout 4 EA Sports FC 25
Persona 3 Reload Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Fortnite Farming Simulator 25
Poppy Playtime: Chapter 1, 2, 3 Metaphor: ReFantazio Forza Horizon 5 MLB The Show 24
Return to Grace NBA 2K25 Grand Theft Auto Online NBA 2K25
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II New World: Aeternum Marvel Rivals NHL 25
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance NHL 25 Minecraft Path of Exile 2
Skull and Bones Palworld Palworld Phasmophobia
Star Wars Outlaws Phasmophobia The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Roblox
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Rocket League The Outlast Trials Star Wars Outlaws
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Unicorn Overlord S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 WWE 2K24
WWE 2K24

Soon, developers and publishers will receive their well-deserved trophies, so keep an eye out for their celebrations!

If this has you curious about jumping into the worlds of the games that took home the awards, check out our curated collection of the 2024 Xbox Excellence Award-winning titles on the Xbox Store.

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