‘Astro Bot’ is Stealing the Spotlight with Record-Breaking Game of the Year Wins

ByEng Published onJanuary 6, 2025January 6, 2025

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Astro Bot has been a standout game from the very beginning. Some of us felt it the moment we saw the first trailer, while others were hooked the second they started playing. Fast forward to now, and this little platformer has been raking in Game of the Year awards at a pace no one saw coming.

A website that tracks GOTY awards reveals that Astro Bot has now claimed 104 awards. That’s more than any other platformer in history. While it doesn’t come close to dethroning Elden Ring’s all-time record, it comfortably beats the previous top platformer, It Takes Two, which earned 88 awards back in 2021.

Astro Bot’s success isn’t just a fluke of timing. Some of the best platformers in the past faced stiff competition from other genres. For example, Super Mario Odyssey won only 37 awards in 2017, largely because it had to compete with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Without BOTW, Odyssey might have claimed far more trophies and possibly rewritten history.

The GOTY tracking site used here only goes back to 2013, the year before Geoff Keighley’s The Game Awards became official. Even though earlier years are being retroactively added, the chance of an older platformer surpassing Astro Bot seems slim. While games like Super Mario Galaxy 2 likely won their share of awards, there simply weren’t as many to win back then.

Astro Bot’s incredible run might not be over yet. With a few weeks of awards season left, it could add even more trophies to its shelf. It’s just 15 shy of catching up with Death Stranding’s 2019 tally. Whether it breaks that milestone or not, one thing’s for sure: this little bot has made gaming history.

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Ysmael “Eng” Delicana is a writer based in Davao City, Philippines. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics at Ateneo de Davao University before continuing to teach part-time at the same university. While teaching was a fun gig, being a geek and a writer seemed to be his calling. His expertise includes fantasy shows and movies, comic books, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and popular RPG video games. Ysmael also excels at learning new things and getting to know new topics that are interesting yet foreign to him, and that’s why he can also be called a jack of all trades. He also works as a part-time writer for books about sports. As an avid fan of fantasy TV shows, video games, and books, Ysmael is fond of watching, playing, and reading things related to fantasy, magic, and mystical creatures. However, he is also a huge fan of anime, as he spends a portion of his time watching shonen anime. As long as something is interesting and worth his time, Ysmael tends to devote his effort to it, as he has been great at geeking out about a certain topic. Ysmael’s writing style tends to be quite conversational in the sense that he likes speaking to the readers instead of making them feel like they are reading something tedious. He picked up this during his teaching years because he needed to find ways to simplify topics that tend to be foreign and complex to students. Ysmael also writes for Comic Basics.

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