The Game Awards 2022 Nominees Announced

On the evening of December 8, 2022, The Game Awards 2022 will find their true owners. The recently announced Game Awards 2022 nominees will compete in a total of 31 categories, most notably in the Game of the Year (GOTY) category. While strong nominees such as God of War: Ragnarok, Elden Ring and A Plague Tale: Requiem were found worthy of award nominations in over 5 categories; The fact that Dying Light 2 failed to find a place in any of The Game Awards 2022 categories created an event. Let’s look at the details together.

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Game of the Year / GOTY

Candidates:

• Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Tramp (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Best Gaming Direction

Candidates:

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half-mermaid)
• Tramp (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Storytelling

Candidates:

• Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half-mermaid)

Best Art Direction

Candidates:

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Contempt (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
• Tramp (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Soundtrack

Candidates:

• Olivier Derivière, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Tsukasa Saito, Elden Ring
• Bear McCreary, God of War: Ragnarok
• Two feathers, metal: Hellsinger
• Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Sound Design

Candidates:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Best Performance (Voice and Performance)

Candidates:

• Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney, Plague Tale: Requiem
• Christopher Judge, God of War: Ragnarok
• Manon GageImmortality
• Sunny Suljic, God of War: Ragnarok

Most Efficient Game

Candidates:

• A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age)
• Endling – Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
• Looking Back (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)

Best Current Game

Candidates:

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungi)
• FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (epic games)
• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

Best Indie Game

Candidates:

• Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
• Neon White (Angelic Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Tramp (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)

Best New Indie Game

Candidates:

• Neon White (Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive)
• Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
• Tramp (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)
• Vampire survivors (ponkle)

Best Community Support

Candidates:

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungi)
• Final Fantasy 14 (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (epic games)
• No Man’s Sky (Hi Games)

Best Mobile Game

Candidates:

• Apex Legends Mobile (light speed and Quantum/Respawn/EA)
• Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
• Fantasy Tower (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)

Best VR/AR Game

Candidates:

• After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
• Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
• Bonelab (Zero Stress)
• Moss: Book 2 (Polar Arc)
• Red Matter 2 (vertical robot)

Best Action Game

Candidates:

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Neon White (Angelic Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Candidates:

• Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Tramp (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)

Best RPG

Candidates:

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Live Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Gaming Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Best fighting game

Candidates:

• 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 (First Player Games / WB Games)
• Sifu (Sloclap)

Best Family Game

Candidates:

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL/Nintendo Lab)
• 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 Simulation/Strategy Game

Candidates:

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

Best Sports/Racing Game

Candidates:

• F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
• NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Digital Polyphony/SIE)
• OlliOlli World (Roll 7 / Private Division)

Best Multiplayer Game

Candidates:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• MultiVersus (First Player Games / WB Games)
• Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Most Anticipated Game of 2023

Candidates:

• Final Fantasy 16 (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

Candidates:

• Carl Jacobs
• Ludwig
• nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Best adaptation

Candidates:

• Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)
• Show Cuphead! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
• Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)

Accessibility Innovation Award

Candidates:

• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
• God of War: Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
• The Last of Us Part 1 (Naughty Dog/SIE)
• Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)

Best Esports Game

Candidates:

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
• DOTA 2 (Valven)
• League of Legends (Riot Games)
• Rocket League (Psyonix)
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best esportsman

Candidates:

• Jung “Chovy” Ji-hoon (Gen.G, League of Legends)
• Lee “Faker” Sang Hyuk (T1, League of Legends)
• Finn “karrigan” Andersen ((FaZe Clan – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Alexander “s1mple” Kostylev (Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Jacob “Sagittarius” Whitaker (Cloud9, Valorant)

Best Esports Team

Candidates:

• DarkZero eSports (Apex Legends)
• Clan FaZe (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• General G (League of Legends)
• L.A. Thieves (Call of Duty)
• LOUD (valiant)

best esports coach

Candidates:

• Andrey “B1ad3” Gorodensky (Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (Loud, Valiant)
• Eric “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, Valorant)
• Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, League of Legends)

Best Esports Event

Candidates:

• EVO 2022
• League of Legends World Championship 2022
• PGL Major Antwerp 2022
• 2022 Mid-Season Invitation

Source: The Game Awards 2022 official website.