Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Mechanic Podcast

Games. Turns out, you tend to play them. In years past, we have often tried to talk about the elegance of particular systems and mechanics before, but we never had a category exclusive to that. Debuting this year, we wanted to award our favorite mechanics from 2024. The Nominees Are: Mind Chess (Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit) Learning Languages (Chants of Sennaar) Bullet Guidance (Children of the Sun) Lane Rails (Deadlock) Memories (Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake) Pawns (Dragons Dogma 2) Bravery Points (Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising) Stratagems (Helldivers 2) Bond (Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom) Team Up (Marvel Rivals) The Car (Pacific Drive) The Starry Expanse (Riven [2024]) Fast Talk (Star Wars Outlaws) Possession (Slitterhead) Rewind (Tetrachroma) Guard Thrust (Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes]) Tactics (Unicorn Overlord) Special Training Plan (Zenless Zone Zero) Here's our write-up for the winners! Our intro and outro music for the Gimmick Awards 2024 is Afternoon After the Rain by Kazuki Kaneko, and our art is a commission from Sarracenian on Bluesky.