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The Game Awards 2022: All the Categories, Nominees, and Winners

A shorter, sharper presentation for a year with less AAA releases than usual

Every December is an especially wonderful time for us gamers, and it’s not just because we’re all expecting some new games or accessories for the Holidays, it’s also because we get to celebrate our industry by watching The Game Awards (aka The Keighleys).

Since “The Keighleys” are generally shown during the Aussie workday, here’s a handy recap of all of the category, nominees, and winners from The Game Awards 2022! 



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GENRE-based Awards

Best Action/Adventure: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
  • Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)

Best Action Game: Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)

  • 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 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 Fighting: MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)

  • DNF Duel (Arc System Works/Eighting/Neople/Nexon)
  • Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (Cyberconnect 2/Bandai Namco)
  • The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
  • SIFU (Sloclap)

Best Indie: Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

  • Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital)
  • Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
  • SIFU (Sloclap)
  • Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)

Best Mobile Game: Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)

  • Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed Studios)
  • Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
  • Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
  • Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)

Best Multiplayer: Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

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

Best Ongoing: Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

  • Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment/EA)
  • Destiny 2 (Bungie)
  • Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

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 Sim[ulation]/Strategy: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan & Paris/Ubisoft)

  • Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
  • Total War: Warhammer III (Creative Assembly/SEGA)
  • Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/SEGA)
  • Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)

Best Sports/Racing: Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)

  • F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
  • FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver & Romania/EA Sports)
  • NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
  • OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality: Moss: Book II (Polyarc)

  • After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
  • Among Us VR (Schell Games/Innersloth)
  • Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)
  • Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)

CRAFTSMANSHIP Awards

Best Art Direction: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

  • God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE)
  • Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Audio Design: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
  • Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE)

Best Game Direction: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

  • God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE)
  • Immortality (Half Mermaid)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Narrative: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE)
  • Immortality (Half Mermaid)

Best Performance: Christopher Judge (Kratos in God of War Ragnarök)

  • Ashly Burch (Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West)
  • Charlotte McBurney (Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem)
  • Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel in Immortality)
  • Sunny Suljik (Atreus in God of War Ragnarök)

Best Score and Music: God of War Ragnarök (Bear McCreary)

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Olivier Deriviere)
  • Elden Ring (Tsukasa Saitoh)
  • Metal: Hellsinger (Two Feathers)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Yasunori Mitsuda)


ESPORTS Awards

Best Esports Athlete: Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9/Valorant)

  • Jeong “Chovy” Ji-Hoon (Gen.G/League of Legends)
  • Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok (T1/League of Legends)
  • Finn “Karrigan” Andersen (FaZe Clan/Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
  • Oleksandr “S1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere/Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)

Best Esports Coach: Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (Loud/Valorant)

  • Andrii “B1ad3” Horoenskyi (Natus Vincere/Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
  • Erik “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: 2022 League of Legends World Championship

  • EVO 2022
  • PGL Major Antwerp 2022
  • The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
  • Valorant Champions 2022

Best Esports Game: Valorant (Riot Games)

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

Best Esports Team: Loud (Valorant)

  • DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
  • FaZe Clan (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
  • Gen.G (League of Legends)
  • LA Thieves (Call of Duty)


“SPECIAL RECOGNITION” Awards

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

  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt RED/Netflix)
  • The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SEGA Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
  • Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)

Best Community Support: Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

  • Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment/EA)
  • Destiny 2 (Bungie)
  • Fortnite (Epic Games)
  • No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Debut Indie: Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)

  • Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
  • Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
  • Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)
  • Vampire Survivors (Poncle)

Content Creator of the Year: Ludwig

  • Karl Jacobs
  • Nibellion
  • Nobru
  • QTCinderella

Games for Impact: As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)

  • A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
  • 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)

Innovation in Accessibility: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

  • As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
  • Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/evolver Digital)
  • The Last of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)
  • The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K Games)

Most Anticipated Game: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

  • Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix)
  • Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)
  • Resident Evil 4 Remake (Capcom)
  • Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)

GAME OF THE YEAR: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games/SIE)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

There you have it, folks. What did you think about this year’s showing? Did your top picks win their respective categories? Tune in to next week’s Doublejump Radio to hear our thoughts on The Game Awards 2022 and learn about the awesome announcements and trailers that were shown as well!


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