On December 11, Apple announced the winners of the 2024 App Store Awards, in other words the 17 apps that have most enriched the daily lives of App Store users after the bitten apple brand. Focus on Apple's game of the year.
Like every year, Apple announces its App Store Awards winners. In 2024, 17 applications were selected among the 45 finalists. Selected by the App Store editorial team, they reward developers and their applications for “their excellence in user experience, design and innovation” as Apple explains in its press release. Tim Cook, the brand's CEO him-selfeven welcomed it:
“The tremendous achievements of this year’s winners are a testament to the incredible ingenuity that apps allow us to deploy.”
Here we will focus on the game of the year that received praise from the Apple team: AFK Journey.
AFK Journey, same bases as its predecessor
AFK Journey is a direct derivative of AFK Arenaanother mobile game of the same caliber and from the same publisher. The two share a lot in common: they are both until (game where random draws, paid with real or virtual money, allow you to acquire new characters and/or the means to progress them) RPG type (Role Playing Game) with a multitude of characters with very different powers. The goal is to build the team with the best possible synergy by combining the appropriate capabilities. The particularity of this game: you do not play, hence the “AFK” (Away From Keyboard) an acronym used in the gaming world to define someone who has to be away from the game for a while: “he's AFK”. Once the fight begins, your heroes do the rest. Even more, while you're out of the app, your heroes harvest resources for you!
AFK Journey stands out for adventure
But where the gameplay (way of playing)AFK Arena is limited to collecting and fighting, AFK Journey stands out for the possibility of exploring a vast universe called “open world”, a term used in video games to define more or less unlimited exploration in an imaginary universe which is not compartmentalized into different levels. You can then travel the world as you wish fantasy of Esperia and follow a rich story that will immerse you for many hours.
In this same world you will find hidden chests, secrets to find, monsters to fight and a multitude of other activities to do at your leisure. In addition, dozens of rewarded daily tasks await you. In short, what distinguishes AFK Journeyit’s the density of its content! And the icing on the cake, the game is particularly generous with its players, the draws are numerous unlike others until.
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Finally, beyond its very satisfying side, what has made it famousAFK Journeythese are its ultra polished graphics and artistic direction. The story is interspersed with sumptuous cutscenes. Its level of detail makes it an additional point of demarcation from other mobile games.
Source : Apple, Lilith Games
