Farlight’s AFK Journey simply launched on iOS and Android final month, and it is already been topped Google Play’s finest sport of 2024.
In celebrating the most effective apps and video games to grace the storefront this 12 months, Google counseled the mobile-RPG for its “expansive roster of characters and satisfying tactical battle system. […] Its huge explorable world and delightful artwork model additionally helps it stand aside from its friends.” In line with its retailer itemizing, the sport has over 5 million downloads on Google Performs since its launch.
“AFK Journey blew us away inside its opening minutes, showcasing distinctive visuals and a fantasy world filled with satisfying issues to discover,” Google continued. “The selection for Finest Recreation of 2024 was apparent: We simply couldn’t get sufficient of [it].
In the meantime, Supercell’s Conflict of Clans took the win for finest multi-device sport. Earlier this 12 months, the free-to-play title launched on PCs and Chromebooks, turning into “optimized throughout in every single place you play, nonetheless you wish to play. [It] might have been round for over a decade,” mentioned Google, “however this 12 months, it went even greater.”
Fellow video games to obtain “Better of” awards this 12 months embody Squad Busters (“Finest Multiplayer”), Sure, Your Grace (Finest Indie), Solo Leveling: Come up (Finest Story), and Honkai: Star Rail (Finest Ongoing). Final 12 months, Honkai took house Google Play’s Finest 2023 Recreation, preceded by Apex Legends Cell in 2022.
Google additionally used the 2024 awards to tout its modifications to the Google Play Retailer all year long. Together with updating its discoverability options and “making certain well timed content material supply,” it labored to “higher help the builders who energy the platform. We stay up for seeing how builders and publishers proceed to assist folks uncover new apps, video games and books—wherever they’re, on no matter machine.”
The complete listing of Google Play’s finest video games and apps for 2024 might be learn right here.
