Xbox honors exceptional games with the Xbox Excellence Awards

2024 was a packed year, with tons of different games across every genre imaginable. To that end, Xbox is honoring a number of games and developers with Xbox Excellence Awards, celebrating titles that stood out from the rest in player reviews, engagement, daily active users, or sales, as shared via Xbox Wire on Friday. Some games, such as Saber Interactive’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, are even honored in multiple categories.

Any games recognized for exceptional reviews had to have at least 500 reviews to be considered eligible. Xbox also defines “engagement” for this list as any games that had the highest average hours played within the first six weeks of their launch. The daily active users segment also includes a number of games that released years ago, but received some sort of meaningful update this year, such as Bethesda Game Studios’ Fallout 4.