What the Car? picked up the Best Mobile game Award at Gamescom Latam 2024
The awards were hosted in partnership with the BIG Festival
All the nominees were playable on the show floor, with mobile happily mingling with PC
Last week, the inaugural Gamescom Latam event took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, aiming to highlight Latin America's growing presence in gaming alongside celebrating the industry worldwide. Part of that included the game awards in partnership with the BIG Festival, with the winners announced during a fancy presentation at the event.
There were 13 categories in total, with all the finalists chosen by a panel of 49 judges. All the nominees were playable at the Sao Paulo Expo at a sizeable booth attendees were unlikely to miss. It was nice to see the mobile games mixed in with the PC nominees rather than being restricted to their own section, as you might expect. Mobile is just as important, after all.
Of all those categories, naturally, we were most interested in the “Best Mobile Game” award, which ultimately went to Triband ApS' What the car? A worthy winner if you ask me. Our own Jupiter Hadley highlighted the game previously in her article spotlighting ten amazing games you might not have heard of, so it's great to see it get even more recognition. Even if that means we might need to adjust that list if it becomes a household name.
But, although What the Car? drove away with the coveted award in the trunk, it's still worth shouting out the other nominees. They made it through the shortlist after all, so you can expect good quality experiences:
Junkworld – Ironhide Game Studio
Bella Pelo Mundo – Plot Kids
An Elmwood Trail – Techyonic
Sibel's Journey – Food for Thought Media
Residuum Tales of Coral – Iron Games
SPHEX – VitalN
And, partly because I like lists and partly because it's always good to shout out games, the other winners were:
Game of the Year – Chants of Sennar - Rundisc
Best Game from Latin America – Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure – Furniture & Mattress
Best Brazilian Game – Momodora: Moonlit Farewell - Bombservice
Best Casual Game – Station to Station – Galaxy Groove Studios
Best Audio – Dordogne - UMANIMATION and UN JE NE SAIS QUOI
Best Art – Harold Halibut – Slow Bros. UG.
Best Multiplayer – Extremely Powerful Capybaras – Studio Bravarda and PM Studios
Best Narrative – Once Upon A Jester – Bonte Avond
Best XR/VR – Sky Climb - VRMonkey
Best Gameplay – Pacific Drive – Ironwood Studios
Best Pitch from Regional Game Development Associations – Dark Crown – Hyper Dive Game Studio
If you want to play the award-winning game, What the Car? is available now on the App Store through Apple Arcade, a subscription service that costs $6.99 (or your local equivalent) a month. You can download it using the big button below.
