The Game Awards 2022 have come and gone, and it’s left us with some amazing reveals and updates from around the world of videogames. But amongst all of those, gaming’s biggest night also took the time to celebrate and crown some of the greatest titles from the past year, as well as performers, influencers and even events that have formed part of our world.
The coveted Game of the Year award is of course probably the most important one here, but let’s take a look at every single category, their nominees, and the winner, highlighted for your convenience:
GAME OF THE YEAR A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) - WINNER God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo) BEST GAME DIRECTION Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) - WINNER God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Immortality (Half Mermaid) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) BEST NARRATIVE A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) - WINNER Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Immortality (Half Mermaid) BEST ART DIRECTION Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) - WINNER God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) BEST SCORE AND MUSIC Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarök - WINNER Two Feathers, Metal: Hellsinger Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 BEST AUDIO DESIGN Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision) Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) - WINNER Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE) Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) BEST PERFORMANCE Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarök - WINNER Manon Gage, Immortality Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarök GAMES FOR IMPACT A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna) As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios) - WINNER Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller) Endling - Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames) Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna) I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji) BEST ONGOING GAME Apex Legends (Respawn/EA) Destiny 2 (Bungie) FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix) - WINNER Fortnite (Epic Games) Genshin Impact (HoYoverse) BEST INDIE Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital) Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna) Sifu (Sloclap) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) - WINNER TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji) BEST DEBUT INDIE Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive) NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) - WINNER TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji) Vampire Survivors (poncle) BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT, PRESENTED BY DISCORD Apex Legends (Respawn/EA) Destiny 2 (Bungie) FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix) - WINNER Fortnite (Epic Games) No Man's Sky (Hello Games) BEST MOBILE Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA) Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase) Genshin Impact (HoYovese) MARVEL SNAP (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse) - WINNER Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite) BEST VR/AR After the Fall (Vertigo Games) Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth) BONELAB (Stress Level Zero) Moss: Book II (Polyarc) - WINNER Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot) BEST ACTION Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo) - WINNER Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision) Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna) Sifu (Sloclap) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu) BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) - WINNER Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE) Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna) TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji) BEST ROLE PLAYING Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco) - WINNER Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo) Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI) Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo) BEST FIGHTING DNF Duel (Arc System Works/EIGHTING/NEOPLE/NEXON) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco) The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion) MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games) - WINNER Sifu (Sloclap) BEST FAMILY Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo) - WINNER LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveller's Tales/WB Games) Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft) Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) BEST SIM/STRATEGY Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom) Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft) - WINNER Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Assembly/Sega) Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega) Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive) BEST SPORTS/RACING F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports) FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports) NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports) Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE) - WINNER OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division) BEST MULTIPLAYER Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision) MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games) Overwatch 2 (Blizzard) Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) - WINNER Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu) MOST ANTICIPATED FINAL FANTASY XVI (Square Enix) Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games) Resident Evil 4 (Capcom) Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda) The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo) - WINNER CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR Karl Jacobs Ludwig - WINNER Nibellion Nobru QTCinderella BEST ADAPTATION Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix) - WINNER Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix) The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures) Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures) INNOVATION IN ACCESSIBILITY As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios) God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE) - WINNER Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital) The Last Of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE) The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K) BEST ESPORTS GAME Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve) DOTA 2 (Valve) League of Legends (Riot Games) Rocket League (Psyonix) VALORANT (Riot Games) - WINNER BEST ESPORTS ATHLETE Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon (Gen.G, LOL) Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL) Finn "karrigan" Andersen ( (FaZe Clan - CS:GO) Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO) Jacob "Yay" Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant) - WINNER BEST ESPORTS TEAM DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends) FaZe Clan (CS:GO) Gen.G (League of Legends) LA Thieves (Call of Duty) LOUD (Valorant) - Winner BEST ESPORTS COACH Andrii "B1ad3" Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO) Matheus "bzkA" Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT) - WINNER Erik "d00mbr0s" Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT) Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO) Go "Score" Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL) BEST ESPORTS EVENT EVO 2022 2022 League of Legends World Championship - WINNER PGL Major Antwerp 2022 The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational VALORANT Champions 2022