It’s time for the first ever Croaki Awards! Time to present the best of the best when it comes to the entire year of 2024! From The Last of Us Part II to Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, there were some really great games and incredible bangers represented on the channel from January to December and I decided that this would be the year to kick start and launch the Croaki Awards for the first time! I also included a special category voted on by the community as the Viewer’s Choice Game of the Year that was played on the channel in 2024 as well and the result did not really surprise me at all. We’ll get to that in a little bit! We’ll go ahead and start off with the top awards first and move on down the line. Thanks to everybody for being a part of this amazing community through the year of 2024 and enjoying some of these amazing gaming classics with me for the first time! It’s been a blast reliving and visiting these video games I’ve never had the chance to play before!

Kena: Bridge of Spirits
This was one of the most highly anticipated games I was waiting to play for so long. Having released on the PlayStation and PC first, I waited a long, long time for the game to finally be released on the Xbox systems and actually went out of my way to purchase the physical copy of the game for the console. When I played through this game, I just knew I was going to get all of the achievements for it and I did just that. This game really hit me in the feels in 2024 like really no other game truly did. From the amazing visuals and soundtrack to the cute little “rot” creatures that you collect along the way. The game just felt overwhelmingly amazing and I really feel like in the grand scheme of things in the gaming world, this game is truly underrated and just kind of flew on by for most people and recognition at that. This is definitely my Game of the Year for Croakitoad in 2024.
Notable Nominees:
Pokémon Platinum
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
The Last of Us Part II
Silent Hill 2 Remake
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Death Stranding

Silent Hill 2 Remake
I decided that since I am streaming and completing these games to the world, that I’d actually let the Croakitoad community out there vote on what they thought truly was the best experience out of the entire year in 2024. Winning by an overwhelming victory was Silent Hill 2 Remake, which was also very tightly contested for game of the year for me as well. I can totally understand why so many people would pick this game, as it was incredibly well done and Konami and Bloober Team did an excellent job of keeping the old school style we all love while also adding quality of life and a bit of newness to one of the best horror games of all time. Definitely a top notch choice and a super fun experience to play through! I can’t wait for the inevitable Xbox release so that I can knock out all of the achievements on the game!
Notable Nominees:
Pokémon Platinum
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Tomb Raider I•II•III Remastered
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Dead Space Remake

A Short Hike
This was a very hard one to pick from, especially with so many different cozy and games I could totally vibe out to in the year of 2024 that I played. So many cats involved in this category but yet the one that wins out is the little bird who wants to visit the top of the mountain on his very short hike. This was a fun little adventure game that was just a great overall experience to play through. Lil Gator Game was a lot like this game, but this edged out based on the graphics style that I really appreciated, and I really enjoyed the wholehearted story the game presented. Every single one of these games could have won the indie game of the year for me personally, but I had to pick a winner and a winner I did pick. I totally recommend every single game on this list to anyone who’s not had the chance to play them!
Notable Nominees:
Lil Gator Game
Cat Quest
She Sees Red
Crow Country
A Shelter Full of Cats
Little Kitty, Big City

Abby Anderson (The Last of Us Part II)
Yet another hard choice to make, as so many character I came across in the year of 2024 really had a lasting impression or stuck with the community for long after I had already completed the game. I feel like The Last of Us Part II had probably the most anticipation leading up to it because I know what I had heard and I know what I had seen before having played it but had never experienced it for myself. The muscle mommy herself would do the one thing that fans of The Last of Us would absolutely hate, but then the story gets twisted and confusing because of all of the repercussions that happen afterwards. Almost all the way through this playthrough, I knew I wanted to side with Abby and I wanted to be Team Abby. Time after time she dropped it and left it done and dusted but Ellie just had to keep on pressing. The only drawback to this character was the forced sex scene that took place that just literally had no emotion and nothing going for it, but I won’t blame Abby for this.
Notable Nominees:
Adewale (Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry)
Toxicroak (Pokémon Platinum)
Captain Price (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered)
Kena (Kena: Bridge of Spirits)
The Goose (Untitled Goose Game)
Kyle Busch (NASCAR Heat 4)
Poop Killer (Poop Killer 1-2-3-Origins)
The Pomeranian (DORONKO WANKO)
BB-28 (Death Stranding)
Yarny (Unravel)
Polly (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy)
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider I•II•III Remastered)
Viktor Gantz (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

Silent Hill 2 Remake
Silent Hill 2 Remake rakes in another Croaki Award for the year of 2024, proving just how great this game really was. It brought the old school nostalgia style of the original game combined with the quality of life of today’s improvements in gaming. The soundtrack was just as amazing as the original, the experience was just the same if not better and just being able to revisit “that town” in today’s graphics and technology was just an absolute blast to do. Plus, Bloober Games threw in a little bit of extra on top just to spice things up a little bit so it wasn’t just the “same-old, same-old.” Dead Space Remake was just as great and a huge adventure in itself, and Dead Space is one of my favorite games of all time, but Silent Hill 2 Remake just really knocked it out of the park in terms of ambience, horror and my god just that soundtrack is just bar none.
Notable Nominees:
Alessia’s Dollhouse
Still Wakes the Deep
Bloodwash
Dead Space Remake
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Amnesia: The Bunker
Tales Beyond The Tomb: Pineville Night Stalker

Tomb Raider I•II•III Remastered
The overwhelming feeling of having completed all three games plus the expansions for all 269 achievements felt like a giant wave of relief knowing I was completely finished with the trilogy. Don’t get me wrong, my time spent with Lara Croft traveling through the lands of Peru, Egypt, Italy, Antarctica and even the South Pacific Islands was an absolute blast. I really enjoyed what Aspyr did on the remakes here and the photo mode is just an absolute gem of an addition to these games, being able to warp around and just check everything out. Some of you might be saying this might be a bit of a cheat, considering this is three games wrapped up into one, but considering all 269 achievements were grouped in together and I had to get the job done, this was just one giant task including all three games. Special shoutout to members of the Croakitoad community who got me through the three games plus the expansions. It was a long and stressful ride, but we got the job done and I felt so great afterwards having completed it all the way through. That’s definitely the definition of most satisfying, I’d say.
Notable Nominees:
The Last of Us Part II
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
Pokémon Leaf Green
Resident Evil Gaiden
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Unravel

Silent Hill 2 Remake
Another award presented to Bloober Team and Konami for having the video game soundtrack of the year. Akira Yamaoka brings back his classic lineup of just all-time gems from the Silent Hill 2 original soundtrack up to date and modernized for the 2024 gaming audience and it just slaps. The music is just as much part of the Silent Hill universe as anything else, including the gameplay and it just hits right. There’s no possible way I could have really given this award to any other game, knowing just how powerful and how vital the soundtrack is to this game. Any other composer could have came along and the game would just immediately fall into obscurity, but it’s because of the soundtrack that Silent Hill is what Silent Hill is, and what Silent Hill is is a winner of another Croaki Award in 2024.
Notable Nominees:
Prey (2017)
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Half-Life 2
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy

NASCAR Heat 4
It’s hard to believe that the game gifted to me by Cokesodacan on Steam in 2022 was just a little unassuming game gift turned out to become such a menace in the Croakitoad community throughout 2024. Beating out such hardcore mainstays like Phasmophobia and Dead by Daylight is super impressive, but there’s no denying that the race track took over in the year of 2024. Maybe not all of the time, but the times the drivers hit the track was absolutely unmistakable. The laps at Bristol with no flags and causing “the big ones” has been an ongoing meme ever since the very first lap. This was a tough one to call because Phasmophobia is so dear to our hearts, but because of their push to consoles, a lot of the content for Phasmophobia just wasn’t there in 2024. It’s hard to believe that a game gifted to me two years prior that really had no place fitting into the multiplayer schedule rose straight to the top, causing even more people in the community to purchase the game themselves and join in on the multiplayer fun.
Notable Nominees:
Palworld
Phasmophobia
Lethal Company
Golf With Your Friends
Dead by Daylight
Fast Food Simulator
Diablo IV
PowerWash Simulator

X-MEN: The Arcade Game (w/ Zazzeris, Ashterial & Cokesodacan)
Another really tough category to choose from because there were so many great cooperative experiences in 2024, but I really have to hand it to the X-MEN: Arcade Game because of just how awesome this game is to play. Whether it be classically in the old arcades, or through Parsec with active multiplayer like we did on this run, this game is just a hell of a lot of fun to play. It’s just too bad we couldn’t get the full six player cooperative working, or it would’ve been even more epic than it already was. This brought back all the nostalgia of seeing and hearing this game at the arcades and thinking how cool this game was, even if I wasn’t the biggest X-MEN fan of them all. This was a lot of fun to play through alongside friends and I’m glad to have experienced this arcade game, just like we did with The Simpsons: Arcade Game and Area 51 before in the past.
Notable Nominees:
Tiny Brains (Hype, Zazzeris & Ashterial)
Castle Crashers (Cygnified, Zazzeris & Ashterial)
Final Fight (Zazzeris)
John Romero’s SIGIL II (Coke, Cygnified, Roxas)
The Sum of All Fears (Coke)
PAYDAY: The Heist (Coke, Ashterial, Zazzeris)
Saints Row 2 (HerrGengar)

Croakitoad Pro Wrestling officially begins
This might seem like the easy answer out of the list of notable nominees, but so many people were waiting for so long for this to kick into gear so that when it was finally ready to happen after so many years, most people didn’t really believe it was truly happening. The road that Croakitoad Pro Wrestling went through was a long and turbulent one to get launched; from the terrible experience I had for the first six months of WWE 2K24, to the constant launches that just didn’t feel right and so they were canned for the following year. Now that we are several months into the consistency of CPW, most people would probably forget how hard and rough the road was to bringing it back onto the schedule after so many years, but it finally happened and now we’re live every Tuesday night with that amazing wrestling action. This had to be moment of the year, bringing such a staple back onto the forefront and as an active part of the streaming schedule and community as a weekly event.
Notable Nominees:
Wizardboz12 plays Mega Man II at QuakeCon
Meeting Lucinda & Necro for the first time
Raising $900 in the 2024 St. Jude PLAY LIVE event
Officially joining the Tomb Raider Twitch Community
Completing 500 & 600 video games in the year of 2024
Streaming Super Battle PolyCars & Lamentations w/ developer YooperGames
Acquiring SM7B microphone to the stream setup
Achieving the Golden Apocalypse trophy in Phasmophobia twice
First ever cooking/sleeping stream in the affiliate anniversary event

The unbearable six months of the broken mess known as WWE 2K24
As the aforementioned category just talked about, the launch of WWE 2K24 was absolutely marred with crazy glitches, bugs, game crashes and AI that just refused to cooperate. Nothing was altered or modded in, this is just the base game that just decided upon itself to just not work properly, hindering the progress of Croakitoad Pro Wrestling into what felt like another year being put onto the back burner. Finally, it seemed like one random update one day finally fixed all of the issues and we could actually play the game as it was normally intended for once. The beginning months of this travesty absolutely put me on a rage path at times, as it seemed like all of the hard work and updating, I had been putting in creatively was just going to be all for not.
Notable Nominees:
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: All of the backtracking for all of the collectibles for 100%
Prey (2017): The difficulty of gameplay while trying to get all of the end game achievements
At Dead of Night: Trying to figure out how the game works, period
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster: Getting 7-Day Survivor but dying before getting the unlockable rewards
Opus Castle: The achievement for 100% the game completely glitching out on the game despite achieving it
Palworld: Playing through the entire game on max boss difficulty without realizing it until the final pre-patch boss
Unravel: Having to beat every level in the game without dying a single time

Cokesodacan, Zazzeris & Celestia1416
This couldn’t just go to one person, because as great a streamer is, nobody can really do much without help on here, and these three individuals have helped me out so much in so many different ways! This goes without saying for Cokesodacan, who has become the right hand man on things needing to be done, technical questions and help behind the scenes on random tasks that are never seen or heard about when the stream is actually live. He has helped out so many ways I wouldn’t be able to list them all here. Zazzeris comes in with his help in building up our incredible SFX library with his diligent work in constantly adding in lumps of sound effects to add to the library that everybody enjoys while utilizing the !random command or any other specific commands. Most of the SFX have come from him, so you can thank him for his audio editing work throughout the year of 2024 in contributing. Celestia quickly became a really important part of the mod team and editor by being so consistent with her quote work! Pretty much all of the quotes that happen now come from her hand, as she constantly adds in quips and the weird things I say on stream that half the time I don’t even realize what comes out of my mouth. Almost all of the quotes have come from her, and that’s why she’s being recognized here! On top of this, the mod team in itself has done an incredible job of keeping the Croakitoad community a safe place for anyone and everyone and keeping the bots and other negative energy out. All three of these individuals, plus others not named have also helped contribute by making Twitch clips that are used to help promote Croakitoad on other social media platforms like YouTube, Tik Tok and Instagram and have been an incredible help to help spread the word of our community!
Notable Nominees:
Cygnified
AzurRayne
Featsbeatsgames
Ashterial

Cokesodacan
It’s really hard for me to make this a category because everybody has done so great in helping contribute on those weekends when I’m not home and away and helping provide content to the Croakitoad community on those particular weekends. When I am looking for someone to give the award to, I’m looking at someone who streamed the most amount of dates reliably and was always able to fill in if needed, even if it’s never required. For this, I look no further than Cokesodacan on this award to win the first Guest Streamer of the Year award for Croakitoad! Most people I think would recognize that Coke has streamed the most guest dates on weekends and has put in a lot of hours providing that content, whether it be Fortnite, Jackbox, Dead by Daylight, Tomb Raider or any other gaming content he’s known for. Don’t let this be twisted to any other members of the guest streaming team, everybody is appreciated and loved for your volunteer support in keeping Croakitoad’s content growing over the weekends in 2024!
Notable Nominees:
Ashterial
Zazzeris
Meredydd
Roxas997
Cygnified

!roxas1
This was another tough cookie to try and sort through, because a lot of these SFX get used a lot by the Croakitoad Twitch community. Certainly, when you come to a Croakitoad stream you would be hard pressed not to hear a single time where Roxas’ infamous collection of SFX and voice lines are not heard. It’s almost like a nightly occurrence, and while some of the SFX are quite a bit old and vintage, they just seem to never die off in popularity. So Roxas, if you are reading this, you actually won a first ever Croaki Award for having such memoral SFX and voice lines, how do you feel about this? Beating out other such cult classics like !bomb, !paul and !machoman is pretty wild, but nobody can deny the power of Roxas and his collection of sound files when it comes to Croakitoad streaming. Whether it be “I Suck!” or “I’m smart now!,” Roxas lives with us whether he’s actually in the livestreaming Twitch chat or not, and for that, he’s being awarded here for his dedicated work in providing a constant stream of content to the community.
Notable Nominees:
!nerffart
!bomb
!bag
!paul
!machoman
!kefka
!nwo
So that’s that, the 2024 Croaki Awards in all of its truest form! Thank you all for reading, thanks to everybody for spending your 2024 with Croakitoad and enjoying the content, whether it be playing the scariest games out there, the newest games right off the Steam library or classic vintage games from yesteryear. 2024 was one heck of a year with loads of growth across the board and I’m looking forwards to continuing this upward trend for the community going into 2025! Let’s have a great year and keep on cracking on even more video games and who knows, maybe one of your favorite moments of Croakitoad might make the board on the 2025 Croaki Awards!
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