The Full List of the 2022 Game Awards Nominees

During a live event streamed this morning, Geoff Keighley and the team behind the Game Awards revealed their nominees for the 2022 awards season, including their six picks for Game of the Year. The show will take place in person at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, but will also be streamed online for free on Thursday, December 8 at 7:30 PM ET/4:30 PM PT. If you’d like to vote, you can do so on the Game Awards’ official website or discord server. The complete list of nominated candidates can be found below.

 

GAME OF The YEAR

A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

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 GUIDE

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Immortality (Half Mermaid I)

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)

Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Immortality (Half Mermaid).

 

BEST ART INSTRUCTION

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

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 MUSICAL

Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem

Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring

Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarök

Hellsinger, Two Feathers of Metal

Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3

 

BEST AUDIO DESIGN

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision).

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)

Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

 

BEST PERFORMANCE

Horizon Forbidden West, Ashly Burch

Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem

Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarök

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).

Citizen sleeper

Endling-Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames).

Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna

Teenage Exocolonist at Northway Games/Finji

 

Best Ongoing Game

Apex Legends (Respawn/EA).

Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Final Fantasy XIV – Square Enix

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).

Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji

 

BEST DEBUT INIE

Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive).

Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury).

Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna).

Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji

Vampire Survivors (poncle)

 

BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Apex Legends (Respawn/EA).

Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Final Fantasy XIV – Square Enix

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).

Tower of Fantasy by Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite

 

TOP VR/AR

After the Fall (Vertigo games)

The Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth).

Bonelab (Stress level zero)

Book II of Moss (Polyarc).

Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robo)

 

BEST ACTION

Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision).

Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna).

Sifu (Sloclap).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

 

BEST ADVENTURE/ACTION

A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)

God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna).

Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji

 

BEST ROLE PLAYING

Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

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)

Sifu (Sloclap).

 

BEST FAMILY

Kirby and the Forgotten Land – HAL Laboratory / 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 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

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)

OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Divison)

 

BEST MULTIPLAYER

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/Activision).

MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)

Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)

Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

 

MOST ANTICIPATED

Final Fantasy XIV – 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).

 

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR

Karl Jacobs

Ludwig

Nibellion

Nobru

QTCinderella

 

BEST ADAPTATION

Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix).

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)

Return to Monkey Island, Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital

Part I: The Last Of Us Part I (Naughty/SIE)

The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K).

 

BEST ESPORTS GAME

Global Offensive (Valve), Counter-Strike

Dota 2 (Valve).

League of Legends (Riot Games).

League of Legends (Psyonix).

Valorant (Riot Games)

 

BEST ESPORTS ATLETE

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)

 

BEST ESPORTS TEAM

DarkZero Esports – Apex Legends

FaZe Clan (CS:GO)

Gen.G. (League of Legends).

LA Thieves – Call of Duty

LOUD (Valorant)

 

BEST ESPORTS COACH

Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi  (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)

Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, Valorant)

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

PGL Major Antwerp 2022

Invitational for the 2022 Mid-Season Invitational

Valorant Champions 2022

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