The Game Awards announced its nominees for Game of the Year 2024 in a livestream Monday. This year’s race for GOTY hasn’t had an obvious frontrunner thus far, making the announcement one of the bigger surprises in the show’s 10-year history.

There's been all kinds of buzz over each one of The Game Awards' Game of the Year nominees, with titles like Astro Bot going mainstream and fans sharing tons about Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. But as Polygon pointed out,

The Game Awards show Game of the Year nominees have been revealed with one surprising entry that has changed the rules.