- A total of 15 excellent games of the month in 2024.. Selected by expert evaluation and 15,011 user votes
- Benefits provided include the Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Award, automatic registration as a candidate for the Korea Game Awards, and additional points for production support projects.
- Many award-winning genre indie games that have achieved global success are included, including ‘Editor’, ‘Terminus: Zombie Survivors’, ‘Skel&Defense’, ‘No Umbrellas Allowed’, ‘HYNPYTOL’, and ‘Witch’s Spring R’.
The ‘Game of the Month Awards Ceremony’, hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo In-chon), Electronic Times (CEO Kang Byung-joon), and The Games Daily (CEO Moin) and organized by the Korea Creative Content Agency (Acting President Yoo Hyeon-seok, hereinafter referred to as KOCCA), was held on the 1st at the CKL Stage located in Gwanghwamun, Jung-gu, Seoul.
This month’s excellent game is a project that supports the awarding and promoting excellent domestic games to encourage game creation and production motivation. It was first started in 1997 and is now in its 28th year. It has become a measure that allows us to see the changing aspects of the domestic game market by identifying trends and popular games that change with the times, from PC package games to online games and mobile games.
◆ A total of 15 excellent works were selected in the general game, functional game, and indie game categories.
At this year’s awards ceremony, 15 games were awarded as excellent works for the first and second half 2024. They are divided into ▲General Games ▲Functional Games ▲Indie Games categories, and the final selection was made through evaluations by game industry experts and a total of 15,011 user votes based on criteria such as planning excellence, design, business viability, profitability, and content competitiveness.
Eight works were selected as excellent in the year’s first half. ▲Trickal Revive (Epid Games) ▲Genesis Mobile: Asura Project (Meerkat Games) ▲Solo Level Up: Arise (Netmarble Neo) ▲First Hangul Play (Ringo Ani) ▲Eco Village (Magic Bean Games) ▲Editor (Decatri Games) ▲Skel and Defense (Buff Studio) ▲No Umbrellas Allowed (Pepper Game Studio).
The seven best works in the second half of the year are ▲Forbidden Art (AIEXLAB) ▲First Descendants (Nexon Games) ▲Brain99 (EXOGAMES) ▲Uncover the Smoking Gun (Rello Games) ▲HYNPYTOL (BASEZERO) ▲Terminus: Zombie Survivors (Longplay Studio) ▲Witch’s Spring R (Kiwi Works).
◆ Award benefits, such as the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award and the Korea Game Awards nomination.
The developers of the 15 final selected works will be given the following benefits: ▲Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award ▲Automatic registration as a candidate for the ‘2024 Korea Game Awards’. In addition, they will be given bonus points when applying for ▲Game industry functional agents ▲KOCCA’s ‘2025 Game Content Production Support’ project. In addition, there are other award benefits, such as the award of the Excellent Game of the Month certification mark, game media promotion, and online and offline promotion.
KOCCA Acting Director Yoo Hyeon-seok said, “This year, excellent games from various categories were submitted for the Game of the Month, and the awards ceremony provided an opportunity to witness the creativity and competitiveness of the Korean game industry in one place,” adding, “We will continue to spare no support so that K-games can lead the global market as future content.”
