The PS5 exclusive Astro Bot has just been released and could have strong shoulders to be a serious contender for the prestigious 2024 GOTY title.
Originally a free game in 2020 that was integrated directly into the PS5 and was intended to serve as a mascot and tutorial on the different functions of the latest generation Sony console and its DualSense controller with Astro’s Playroom, the little robot has come a long way since then and is now offered as its own adventure with Astro Bot. And the enormous work of Team Asobi seems to have paid off especially. To the point that we could have before us a potential winner of the 2024 GGOTY title.
Astro Bot, the unexpected masterclass and GOTY potential?
During his numerous talks, Astro Bot presented a lot of promising things. Starting with a compelling platform game with many great ideas such as transformations, clever nods to the PlayStation universe and video games in general, as well as great art direction. And that is perhaps the most refreshing thing about the title Team Asobi: it is actually a video game in its purest form, in which we have fun without the FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) effect of a gaming service or other controversial elements such as microtransactions that have become commonplace in the video game industry.
For all these reasons, Astro Bot has been literally showered with rave reviews (including ours). Out of 113 reviews on Metacritic, the PS5 exclusive boasts a prestigious average of 94. The same average on OpenCritic, out of an average of 80 reviews. This makes it the second highest-rated game of the year. It is only surpassed by Shadow of the World Tree, the Elden Ring DLC, which is largely on par with FromSoftware’s masterpiece. Another production that is content to be an excellent game, nothing more, nothing less.
Thus, Astro Bot positions itself with FF7 Rebirth as one of the best PS5 exclusives of the year and could well surprise its world by being among the finalists for the GOTY 2024 title. However, it remains to be seen what this means for players and wait to know the nominees for the upcoming year-end ceremonies to reward the greatest video game successes of 2024.
Sources: Metacritic ; OpenCritic
