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The Game Awards 2022, hosted by Geoff Keighley, has been a tradition for many years. The first awards ceremony aired in 2014 and not only chose Game of the Year (Dragon Age: Inquisition) and Developer of the Year (Nintendo) but also unveiled many new trailers and games. The Game Awards exist in this form to this day – with an ever-growing audience among the last 85 million views of the live stream.

It was that time again this year. On December 8, the show went up in Los Angeles. In a live broadcast, Keighley revealed the winners in each category, but also made plenty of new announcements (more on that soon). We’re rounding up who won coveted titles like “Game of the Year” this year.

The Game Awards 2022: these winning games

Game of the Year 2022

• Elden Ring
  (From Software, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem
  (ASOBO Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarok
  (Sony Santa Monica, YOU)
• Forbidden Horizon West
  (Guerrilla Games / YOU)
• Wander
  (Bluetwell Studio / Annapurna)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
  (MonolithSoft/Nintendo)

Best action game

• bayonet 3
  (Platinum/Nintendo Games)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  (Infinity Ward / Activision)
• neon white
  (Angel Matrix / Annapurna)
• SIFU
  (Sloclap)
• TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
  (Tribute Games / Dotemu)

Best Action-Adventure

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
  (ASOBO Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarok
  (Sony Santa Monica, YOU)
• Forbidden Horizon West
  (Guerrilla Games / YOU)
• Wander
  (Bluetwell Studio / Annapurna)
• tunic
  (Tunic Team / Finji)

Best RPG

• Elden Ring
  (From Software, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• live alive
  (Square Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokemon Legends Arceus
  (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle strategy
  (Artdink/Square Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
  (MonolithSoft/Nintendo)

best fighting game

• DNF Duel
  (ARC System Works / Eighting / Neople / Nexon)
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R
  (Cyberconnect 2 Co.LTD / Bandai Namco)
• king of fighters
  (SNK / Plaion)
• multiverse
  (Player’s First Games / WB Games)
• SIFU
  (Sloclap)

Best family game

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
  (HAL Lab / Nintendo)
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
  (Traveller’s Tales / WB Games)
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
  (Ubisoft Milan / Paris / Ubisoft)
• Nintendo Switch Sports
  (Nintendo EDP / Nintendo)
• Splaton 3
  (Nintendo EDP / Nintendo)

Better simulation/strategy

• Dune: The Spice Wars
  (Shiro Games/Funcom)
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
  (Ubisoft Milan / Paris / Ubisoft)
• Total War: Warhammer 2
  (Creative Assembly / SEGA)
• Two-point campus
  (Two Point Studios / SEGA)
• Victoria 3
  (Paradox Development Studio / Paradox Interactive)

Best sports/racing game

• F1 2022
  (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• FIFA 23
  (EA Vancouver / Romania / EA Sports)
• NBA 2K23
  (Visual Concepts / 2K Sports)
• Gran Turismo 7
  (polyphony / SHE)
• OlliOlli World
  (Rolls 7/Private Division)

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  (Infinity Ward / Activision)
• multiverse
  (Player’s First Games / WB Games)
• Monitor 2
  (Snow storm)
• Splaton 3
  (Nintendo EDP / Nintendo)
• TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
  (Tribute Games / Dotemu)

Best Game Achievement

• Elden Ring
  (From Software, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarok
  (Sony Santa Monica, YOU)
• Forbidden Horizon West
  (Guerrilla Games / YOU)
• immortality
  (half-mermaid)
• Wander
  (Bluetwell Studio / Annapurna)

Best Story

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
  (ASOBO Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring
  (From Software, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarok
  (Sony Santa Monica, YOU)
• Forbidden Horizon West
  (Guerrilla Games / YOU)
• immortality
  (half-mermaid)

Best Art Direction

• Elden Ring
  (From Software, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarok
  (Sony Santa Monica, YOU)
• Forbidden Horizon West
  (Guerrilla Games / YOU)
• contempt
  (EBB Software / Kepler Interactive)
• Wander
  (Bluetwell Studio / Annapurna)

Best Music (Composer)

• Olivier Derivatiere
  (A Plague Tale: Requiem)
• Tsukasa Saito
  (Elden Ring)
• Bear McCreary
  (God of War Ragnarok)
• two feathers
  (Metal: Hellsingers)
• Yasunori Mitsuda
  (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Best Audio Design

Better performance (voiceover, motion capture)

• Ashley Burch
  (Western Prohibited Horizon)
• Charlotte McBurney
  (A Plague Tale: Requiem)
• Christopher Judge
  (God of War Ragnarok)
• Sunny Suljic
  (God of War Ragnarok)
• Manon Gage
  (immortality)

Games with impact

• A memory blue
  (Interactive Cloister / Annapurna)
• As dusk falls
  (Inner Night / Xbox Game Studios)
• sleeper citizen
  (Jump Over Age / Travel Companion)
• Endling – Extinction is Eternal
  (Herobeat Studios / Mobile Games)
• back view
  (Retrospective Team / Annapurna)
• I was an exocolonist teenager
  (Northway Games)

Best racing game

• Apex Legends
  (Respawn / EA)
• destiny 2
  (bungie)
• Final Fantasy XIV
  (Square Enix)
• Fortnite
  (Epic Games)
• Genshin Impact
  (Hoyoverse)

Best Indie Game

• Worship of the Lamb
  (Massive Monsters / Devolver Digital)
• neon white
  (Angel Matrix / Annapurna)
• SIFU
  (Sloclap)
• Wander
  (Bluetwell Studio / Annapurna)
• tunic
  (Tunic Team / Finji)

Best First Indie Game

• neon white
  (Angel Matrix / Annapurna)
• norco
  (Robot Geography / Raw Fury)
• Wander
  (Bluetwell Studio / Annapurna)
• tunic
  (Tunic Team / Finji)
• vampire survivors
  (sand)

Best mobile game

• Apex Legends Mobile
  (Lightspeed & Quantum / Respawn / EA)
• Diablo Immortal
  (Blizzard / Netease)
• Genshin Impact
  (Hoyoverse)
• Snap Marvel
  (Second Dinner Studios / Nuverse)
• Tower of Fantasy
  (Hotta Studio / Perfect World / Infinite Level)

Better community support

• Apex Legends
  (Respawn / EA)
• destiny 2
  (bungie)
• Final Fantasy XIV
  (Square Enix)
• Fortnite
  (Epic Games)
• No Man’s Sky
  (Hello Games)

Innovation in accessibility

• As dusk falls
  (Inner Night / Xbox Game Studios)
• God of War Ragnarok
  (Sony Santa Monica, YOU)
• Back to Monkey Island
  (Terrible Toy Box / Devolver Digital)
• The Last of Us Part I
  (Naughty Dog / HER)
• The career
  (Supermassive Games / 2K)

Best VR/AR Game

• After the fall
  (Vertigo games)
• Among us VR
  (Schell Games / Innersloth)
• bonelab
  (zero stress level)
• Moss: Book II
  (polyarc)
• Red matter 2
  (vertical bot)

Most anticipated game

• Final Fantasy XVI
  (Square Enix)
• Hogwarts Legacy
  (Avalanche Software / WB Games)
• Resident Evil 4
  (capcom)
• star field
  (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
  (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Adaptation (NEW)

• Arcane: League of Legends
  (Force/Riot Games/Netflix)
• cyberpunk edge runners
  (Studio/CD PR/Netflix Triggers)
• The Cuphead Show
  (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
• sonic the hedgehog 2
  (SEGA Group Sammy/Paramount Pictures)
• Unexplored
  (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)

The Game Awards 2022: The esports nominations

Best esports game

• Counter Strike: Global Offensive
  (valve)
• DOTA 2
  (valve)
• League of Legends
  (Riot Games)
• rocket league
  (Psyonix)
• Valorant
  (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

• Jeong “Chovy” Ji Hoon
  (Gen.G, LOL)
• Lee “Faker” Sang Hyok
  (T1, LOL)
• Finn “Karrigan” Andersen
  (Faze Clan, CS:GO)
• Oleksandr “S1MPLE” Kostyliev
  (Nature Vincere, CS:GO)
• Jacob “Yay” Whiteeaker
  (Cloud9, Valorant)

Best esports team

• Darkzero Esports
• disconcert the clan
• Gen.G
• LA Thieves
• Strong

best esports trainer

• Andrii “B1AD3” Horodenskyi
• Matheus “BZKA” Tarasconi
• Erik “D00MBR0S” Sandgren
• Robert “Robban” Dahlstrom
• Go “Score” Dong Bin

Best esports event

• EVO 2022
• 2022 League of Legends World Championships
• PGL Major Antwerp 2022
• The 2022 mid-season invitation
• Valiant Champions 2022

Content Creator of the Year

• Karl Jacobs
• Louis
• nibellion
• nobru
• Qtcinderella

What are the odds for “Games of the Year”?

Thinking back to 2022, a game pops right in front of our minds: Elden Ring. More than any Soulsbourne from From Software before, the intensive action role-playing game managed to reach a large audience and spark some real hype. Even players who have hardly ever put their antennas next to Fifa and Co. were drawn into the world of George RR Martin (Game of Thrones). For example, was Elden Ring as the first game for weeks in the podcast Baywatch Berlin discussed with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf – thanks to Thomas “Schmitti” Schmitt. It was predictable that From Software would get the title of “Game of the Year”.

God of War Ragnarok was one of the most promising candidates for the “Game of the Year” list. Its great predecessor already sat in 2018 as the “best game” against top players like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Marvel’s Spiderman through. Players received Kratos’ new adventure equally positively, but the delayed title defense was unsuccessful. Besides: God of War Ragnarok was once named “most anticipated game” of 2021, but lost to everyone Elden Ring.

Forbidden Horizon West, which also entered the race as a contender for the title of “Game of the Year”, could not assert itself either. Already at its appearance only a week before Elden Ring soon relegated to the background. A solid RPG, even very good, but much less spectacular and surprising than the action of From Software.

The same goes for the other two nominations. A Plague Tale: Requiem and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are great games in their own right and have garnered great reviews and a loyal playerbase, but what against Elden Ring the land was uncertain from the start. The same applies to Wanderwhich, as an indie game, also had a particularly rough time.

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