Google Play’s Best Games of 2024
Check out the winners of Google Play’s Best of 2024 awards, highlighting this year’s most outstanding games across various categories.
The winners of Google Play’s Best of 2024 are here. This year’s awards aren’t just about showcasing amazing games; they’re a thank you to the talented developers who make the Android ecosystem so vibrant, building fantastic games across all your devices. Let’s find out which games have been loved by many players!
Best game: AFK Journey
“AFK Journey”’s expansive roster of characters and satisfying tactical battle system made this fantasy RPG our Best Game of the year. Its vast explorable world and beautiful art style also helps it stand apart from its peers.
Best multi-device game: Clash of Clans
“Clash of Clans” may have been around for well over a decade — but this year it went even bigger by expanding to PCs and Chromebooks. Now the mobile classic is optimized across everywhere you play, however you want to play, whether it’s on a phone, foldable, tablet, Chromebook or PC.
Best Multiplayer: Squad Busters
Squad Busters is a fast-paced multiplayer Party Action Game where 10 players compete to grab and hold onto the most Gems in order to win. Sounds simple, right?
The new title made more than $50 million in gross player spending over its first two months, landing among the industry’s most lucrative launches of the year.
Best Pick Up & Play: Eggy Party
Eggy Party is a casual mobile game developed by NetEase that was released globally in 2024. The gameplay modes are competitive party mini-games such as parkour, hide and seek, and werewolf killing among others. The game also allows players to play online and establishes various interactive props for interaction.
This party title helped drive NetEase’s revenue up to $11.5 billion last year and has reached 500 million players in 2024 – all that before its expansion from mobile to Nintendo Switch.
Best Indie: Yes, Your Grace
Yes, Your Grace is a management game about ruling a kingdom. It focuses around the player character, King Eryk of Davern, and rests heavily on binary choices about how to respond to various events in their Kingdom. Gameplay is organized into weekly rounds, with events presented as from visitors to their royal court.
Best Story: Solo Leveling: Arise
Solo Leveling: ARISE is the first game adaptation of the Solo Leveling webtoon. This Action RPG gacha game has been develoled and published by Netmarble and while currently it’s only available in Canada and Thailand, the Global release of the game will happen in May 2024.
The game will have an official PC client available on the release, which will make playing on your PC much much easier and you will be able to fully enjoy the amazing combat!
Best Ongoing: Honkai: Star Rail
Honkai: Star Rail is a turn-based RPG very similar to old-school JRPGs (especially the Final Fantasy series). The game is split into two modes: overworld and battle. In the overworld, you run around the map and when you encounter an enemy group, you will ‘transfer’ into the battle mode where you have to defeat the enemies in turn-based combat.
HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail made a return in winning Best Ongoing in 2024. It “took [Google Play’s] breath away” last year and has continued to excel in 2024, at times outperforming its predecessor and RPG giant Genshin Impact and zooming past $1 billion in mobile revenue by its first anniversary.
Best for Families: Tab Time World
Immerse your child in a captivating realm of imagination with Tab Time World, a dynamic mobile app inspired by the Emmy® award-winning show Tab Time.
Best on Play Pass: Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance
The Kingdom is threatened by an interdimensional creature named The Overseer. An uneasy alliance is formed between Vez’nan’s Dark Army and the Linirean rebels, to face this threat together. All the people from Linirea understand that is the time to unite their mighty forces to vanquish evil.
Best for Google Play Games on PC: Cookie Run: Tower of Adventures
CookieRun: Tower of Adventures is a game developed by Devsisters, that was released in June 26, 2024. It features hack and slash action rpg with a 3D art style, with a linear stage-based progression system.