Elden Ring wins Game of the Year 2022

Even though there is a massive list of games released Every year, the Game of the Year winning games always get a huge user base after the Award. The Award always creates curiosity among people, and they buy the Game. To be surprised, Game of the Year games always justify the Award. Every Gamer will accept it as if it is worth it. Most Gamers anticipate God of War: Ragnorak will get the Award this year. It is even on the nomination, But It didn’t get the Award. Elden Ring wins Game of the Year 2022.

Elden Ring wins Game of the Year 2022

Over thirty categories were part of the show this year. The most significant Award came from Game of the Year, and although Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was nominated, it was not selected. There were several noteworthy Switch winners, like Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the most anticipated, Bayonetta 3 for Best Action, Splatoon 3 for Best Multiplayer, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope for the Best Strategy/Simulator, in addition to Kirby as well as Kirby and the Forgotten Land for Best Family.

In the lead-up to the awards celebration, “Elden Ring” received seven nominations. “Elden Ring” Won Game of The Year and was awarded prizes for roleplaying, art direction, and direction awards.

From Software won Game of the Year in 2019 with “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.”

A Statement From the Elden Ring Creators

“We have faced so many difficulties while developing this game…so I’m relieved,” said director Hidetaka Miyazaki. “I am not yet deciding to develop other interesting games like this one. In the case of ‘Elden Ring,’ we’re still looking for more ideas, and this GOTY award boosts us.”

Complete list of Winners and Nominees- Game of the Year Event 2022

Game of the Year

Winner- Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Competitors:

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

Game direction

Winner- Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Competitors:

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

Narrative

Winner Winner God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Competitors:

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

Art direction

Winner- Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Competitors:

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

Music and score

Winner- Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarok

Competitors:

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

Audio design

Winner – God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Competitors:

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

Performance

Winner- Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarok

Competitors:

• Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Manon Gage, Immortality
• Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarok

Games for Impact

Winner- As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)

• A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveler)
• Endelling: Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
• Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
• I was a teen Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)

Ongoing games

Winner- Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

Competitors:

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

Indie Games

Winner- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

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

Debut indie Games

Winner- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Norco (Geography of robots/Raw fury)
• Tunic (Tunic team/Finji)
• Vampire Survivors (poncle)

Community Support provided through the Discord Platform

Winner- Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

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

Mobile Games

Winner- Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)

Competitors:

• Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
• Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
• Genshin Impact (HoYovese)
• Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)

VR/AR Game

Winner- Moss: Book II (Polyarc)

Competitors:

• After the fall (Vertigo Games)
• “Among Us: VR” (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
• Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)
• Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)

Action Games

Winner- Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)

Competitors:

• 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)

Action/Adventure

Winner – God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Competitors:

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

Roleplaying

Winner- Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Competitors:

• Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Fighting Games

Winner- MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)

Competitors:

• 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)
• Sifu (Sloclap)

Family

Winner- Kirby as well as The Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)

Competitors:

• 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)

SIM/Strategy

Winner- Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)

Competitors:

• 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)

Track Games, Sports, Racing

Winner- Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)

Competitors:

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

Multiplayer Games

Winner- Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Competitors:

• 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)

The most anticipated

Winner- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Competitors:

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

Creator of content for the year

Winner- Ludwig

Competitors:

• Karl Jacobs
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Adaptation

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

Competitors:

• 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)

Innovative accessibility

Winner – God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

Competitors:

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

Game of Esports

Winner- Valorant (Riot Games)

Competitors:

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

Sports Athlete

Winner- The winner is Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9 Valorant, Cloud9)

Competitors:

• 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)

Esports Team

Winner- LOUD (Valorant)

Competitors:

• DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
• FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
• Gen.G (League of Legends)
• LA Thieves (Call of Duty)

Coach for Esports

Winner- Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (Loud, Valorant)

Competitors:

• Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
• Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, Valorant)
• Robert “RobbaN” Dahlstrom (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
• Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

Esports Event

Winner- League of Legends World Championship

Competitors:

• EVO 2022
• PGL Major Antwerp 2022
• A Mid-Season-style Invitational in 2022
• Valorant Champions 2022

Wrap Up

Since hundreds of Games are being released yearly, it will be specific content for Streamers. But when you are a regular gamer or leisure gamer who wants to spend your free time on worthy games, then the Game of the Year will help you to short out the best games. Even though everyone may or may not like the listed games, It somehow attracts an enormous user base. The reach of God of War: Ragnarok is delayed in most regions and for gamers. Game success is always based on exploring the games in huge volume. What are your thoughts about Elden Ring winning Game of the Year 2022? Share your thoughts below.

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