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TheGamer: With 104 Awards, Astro Bot Now Has More GOTYs Than Any Other Platformer

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That's according to a site that tracks Game of the Year awards (thanks, NextGenPlayer). According to the site's tally, Astro Bot has picked up 104 awards and counting. While that's nowhere close to being the overall record holder - that record might always belong to Elden Ring - it does appear to be enough to make it the winningest platformer of all time, surpassing the 88 awards It Takes Two racked up in 2021.

It Takes Two is the only other platformer to have won more GOTY awards than any other title in a single year, at least during The Game Awards era, but that doesn't automatically mean Astro Bot has won more GOTY awards than any other platformer. There could have been a year where a big platformer won lots of awards but got beaten by something like Elden Ring or The Last Of Us Part 2. Turns out that's not the case.

The one platformer I immediately went to when checking GOTY tallies to make sure Astro Bot really is the new record holder was Super Mario Odyssey. While Odyssey's 37 awards go to show just how undervalued good platformers have been when we get to awards season, it did launch during the same year as The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. It seems likely had BOTW not been released in 2017, many of its GOTYs would have gone to Odyssey and the platformer wouldn't have finished third behind Horizon Zero Dawn.

It is worth noting that the GOTY tracker only goes back as far as 2013, so the year before The Game Awards began and the title deemed the best of the year by Geoff Keighley's show was unofficially agreed upon as being the big one. However, the site appears to be retroactively tallying up award totals from years prior with 2012 currently in progress.

That means there's a chance Astro Bot's newly won crown is quickly taken away from it, although that seems unlikely. Even though a game like Super Mario Galaxy 2 will have undoubtedly been named the Game of the Year by quite a few outlets in 2010, with fewer awards up for grabs back then, it's highly unlikely it took home more than 104 trophies. Astro will continue to reap awards over the next few weeks too. 15 more and it will overtake 2019's GOTY, Death Stranding.

TL;DR
  • Astro Bot has won 104 Game of the Year awards so far, making it the most awarded platformer ever.
  • It has overtaken the previous record holder It Takes Two which racked up 88 GOTY awards.
  • Records only go back to 2013 so far, but it's unlikely there were enough awards before that for a single platformer to have out-performed Astro Bot.
 

Alexios

Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
It Takes Two being the previous record holder says all ya need to know, lol (that's a padded 88 meta/open critic game - scored by the same people that give these participation awards to copy cats - "beating" games with like 90-97 - which could be higher without certain hater clickbait outliers too).
 
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diffusionx

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Let Sony fanboys have their oh-so-desperately needed 5 minutes of fame, after Elden Ring wiped the floor with both God of War and Horizon 3 years ago, while Baldur's Gate 3 and Tears of the Kingdom destroyed Spiderman 2 in 2023.
Sony fans can play Elden Ring and BG3 though, and I think most woould agree they're better than those games.

Astro Bot really is one of the best games of last year, and it's very good, but says more about the year than the game.
 

HeWhoWalks

Gold Member
Let Sony fanboys have their oh-so-desperately needed 5 minutes of fame, after Elden Ring wiped the floor with both God of War and Horizon 3 years ago, while Baldur's Gate 3 and Tears of the Kingdom destroyed Spiderman 2 in 2023.
Normally I feel bad for these types of posts, but in this case, pointing and laughing is the best response.

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MagnesD3

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Dummies cant do the math on the amount of outlets and people playing games in general now vs then... But I am confident Astro will be great, I cant wait to play it in the spring. Im just glad a 3d plat is getting clout. Mario your move.
 

GrayChild

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Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Awards are meaningless. That said, Astro Bot is the best non-Nintendo platformer ever made, PERIOD.

I really hope this revitalizes the genre.
 
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RCX

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Awards are meaningless. That said, Astro Bot is the best non-Nintendo platformer ever made, PERIOD.

I really hope this revitalizes the genre.
This is the only statement that matters. Awards are pointless trash voted on by the bottom of the journalism barrel, which is already a shitty barrel.

Good on Astro. Mario World and Yoshis Island still have it beat though.
 

MacReady13

Member
It's not even in the top 10 greatest platformers of all time! Not even top 20! In fact, the VR Astro Bot game is better than this Astro Bot!
 
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Thief1987

Member
Let Sony fanboys have their oh-so-desperately needed 5 minutes of fame, after Elden Ring wiped the floor with both God of War and Horizon 3 years ago, while Baldur's Gate 3 and Tears of the Kingdom destroyed Spiderman 2 in 2023.
Your post has a great potential to wipe the floor with any other in the "the most petty and infantile post of the year" category
 
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Synastry

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Let Sony fanboys have their oh-so-desperately needed 5 minutes of fame, after Elden Ring wiped the floor with both God of War and Horizon 3 years ago, while Baldur's Gate 3 and Tears of the Kingdom destroyed Spiderman 2 in 2023.

This is egregious.

It's no better than Crash Bandicoot 3 from the 90s in platforming chops.

Let alone any 3d Mario from Sunshine and up.

This is the only statement that matters. Awards are pointless trash voted on by the bottom of the journalism barrel, which is already a shitty barrel.

Good on Astro. Mario World and Yoshis Island still have it beat though.
I'm making lunch and I needed some salt nothing like a Astro Bot thread to deliver the salt.
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There's no such thing as luck, never mind "dumb luck". Especially not in an industry where it takes as long as it does to put together products as it does in this one.
Major dumb luck in this case. Who knew Starship Troopers knockoff would be relevant in 2024? The first Helldivers was not even a blip on the map. It is hard to say how relevant it will stay in 2025 and beyond though.
 
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