Here Are The Nominees For The Game Awards 2021

Geoff Keighley hosts the Game Awards, which airs live at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on December 9. We already know the in-person event will showcase a significant number of new and upcoming titles, but celebrating 2021’s most outstanding games remains the heart of the show. Today, we learned the nominees for each category, which you can vote on right now at the Game Awards official website.

These are the nominees: 

The Game of the Year

• Deathloop
• It only takes two
• Metroid Dread
• Psychonauts 2.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village

Best game direction

• Deathloop
• It only takes two
• Retoural
• Psychonauts 2.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Most powerful narrative

• Deathloop
• It only takes two
• The True Colors of Life: Strangers in the World
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Psychonauts 2.

The Best Performance

• Erika Mori, Alex Chen/Life Is Strange: True Colors
• Giancarlo Esposito (Anton Castillo/Far Cry 6)
• Jason Kelly (Colt Vahn/Deathloop).
• Maggie Robertson (Alcina Dimitrescu/Resident Evil Village)
• Ozioma Akagha (Julianna Blake/Deathloop)

Best Multiplayer

• Back 4 Blood
• Knockout City
• It only takes two
• Monster Hunter Rise
• New World
• Valheim

Deathloop

The Best Ongoing Gaming Game

• Apex Legends
• Warzone: Call of Duty
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Genshin Impact
• Fortnite

Art direction at its best

• Deathloop
• Bridge of Spirits with Kena
• Psychonauts 2.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Artful Escape

Best Score & Music

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Deathloop
• Nier Replicant ver. 1.22474487139
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Artful Escape

Best Audio Design

• Deathloop
• Forza Horizon 5
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village
• Retoural

Innovation for Accessibility

• Far Cry 6
• Forza Horizon 5
• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

Chicory: The Colorful Story

Games for Impact

• The World Before Your Eyes
• Boyfriend Dungeon
• Chicory: The Colorful Story
• The True Colors of Life: Strangers in the World
• No Longer Home

Best Independent Game

• Death’s Door
• Bridge of Spirits with Kena
• Cryptography
• Loop Hero
• Twelve minutes

Best Mobile Game

• Fantasian
• Genshin Impact
• League of Legends Wild Rift
• Marvel Future Revolution
• Pokémon Unite

The Best Support for Your Community

• Apex Legends
• Destiny 2
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky

Best Debut Indie Game

• Bridge of the Spirts: Kena
• Sable
• Artful Escape
• The Forgotten City
• Valheim

Psychonauts 2.

Top AR/VR Gaming Game

• Hitman III
• I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
• Lone Echo II
• Resident Evil VR
• Sniper elite VR

Named Content Creator of The Year

• Dream
• Fuslie
• Gaules
• Ibai
• Grefg

The Best Action Game

• Back 4 Blood
• Second Chivalry
• Deathloop
• Far Cry 6
• Retoural

The Best Action/Adventure Game

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Metroid Dread
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village
• Psychonauts 2.

The Best Role-Playing Games

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Scarlet Nexus
• Shin Megami Tensei V
• Tales of Arise

Tales of Arise

The Most Awaited Game

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda – Breath of the Wild
• Starfield

Best Fighting Game

• Demon Slayer: The Hinokami Chronicles
• Guilty Gear-Strive
• Type Lumina: Melty Blood
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
• Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown

Family Game of the Year

• It only takes two
• Mario Party Superstars
• New Pokémon Snap
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
• Take it together, Warioware

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• Age of Empires IV
• Evil Genius 2 World Domination
• Humankind
• Cryptography
• Microsoft Flight Simulator

Top Sports/Racing Game

• F1 2021
• FIFA 2022
• Hot Wheels Unleashed
• Forza Horizon 5
• Riders Republic

Cryptography

The Best eSports Games

• Duty Call
• CS:GO
• Dota 2
• League of Legends
• Valorant

Best eSports Athlete

• Collapse
• S1mple
• Showmaker
• Tenz
• Simp

Best eSports Team

• Atlanta Faze (Call of Duty).
• DWG KIA (“League of Legends”)
• Natus Vincere (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Sentinels (Valorant)
• Team Spirit (Dota 2)

The Best Coach in eSports

• Airat “Silent” Gaziev
• Andrey “Engh” Sholokhov
• Andreii “B1AD3” Horodenskyi
• James “Crowder” Crowder
• Kim “KKoma” Jeong-Gyun

The Best eSports Events

• 2021 League of Legends World Championships
• International 2021
• PGL Major Stockholm 2021
• 2020 PUBG Mobile Global Championship
• Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters

You can find more information about The Game Awards by reading the complete list of last year’s winners here. You can also see our opinion on last year’s brightest and best here. Game InformerA growing list of top-scoring video games for 2021.