Summary
Most who have playedAstro Botwill tell you that they knew it was a special game the second they started playing. Let’s be honest, most of us knew when the first trailer dropped. Astro’s wave of momentum has continued throughout the final few months of 2024 and into 2025 as outlets have beennaming it Game of the Year left and right. So many have done so that it now has more GOTY awards than any other platformer in history.
That’s according toa 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 toElden Ring- it does appear to be enough to make it the winningest platformer of all time, surpassingthe 88 awardsIt Takes Tworacked 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 orThe Last Of Us Part 2. Turns out that’s not the case.
Astro Bot Has 104 Game Of The Year Awards And Counting
Making It The Most Awarded Platformer Ever
The one platformer I immediately went to when checking GOTY tallies to make sure Astro Bot really is the new record holder wasSuper Mario Odyssey. WhileOdyssey’s 37 awardsgo to show just how undervalued good platformers have been when we get to awards season, it did launch during the same year asThe 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 behindHorizon Zero Dawn.
It is worth noting thatthe 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.
Astro Bot
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When the PS5 mothership is attacked by Astro’s long-standing galactic nemesis, scrambling its wires and scattering the crew throughout space, only Astro can make things right! Setting off on his biggest mission yet, he needs your help to rescue the stranded crew and rebuild the mothership.
