The Game Awards 2022 Winners and Nominees: Complete List

The Game Awards 2022 wrapped up a packed year for games, from massive open-world RPGs to standout indies, esports highlights, and adaptations that pulled new audiences into familiar worlds. If the live show slipped past you, this complete list keeps the winners and nominees in one place.

The Game Awards 2022 Winners and Nominees

Winners are shown in bold.

Game of the Year

• A 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]
• Stray [BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna]
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 [Monolith Soft / Nintendo]

Best Game Direction

• Elden Ring [FromSoftware / Bandai Namco]
• God of War Ragnarok [Sony Santa Monica / SIE]
• Horizon Forbidden West [Guerrilla Games / SIE]
• Immortality [Half Mermaid]
• Stray [BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna]

Best Narrative

• A 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

• Elden Ring [FromSoftware / Bandai Namco]
• God of War Ragnarok [Sony Santa Monica / SIE]
• Horizon Forbidden West [Guerrilla Games / SIE]
• Scorn [EBB Software / Kepler Interactive]
• Stray [BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna]

Best Score and Music

• A Plague Tale: Requiem [Olivier Deriviere]
• Elden Ring [Tsukasa Saitoh]
• God of War Ragnarok [Bear McCreary]
• Metal: Hellsinger [Two Feathers]
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 [Yasunori Mitsuda]

Best Audio Design

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II [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

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

Games for Impact

• A Memoir Blue [Cloisters Interactive / Annapurna]
• As Dusk Falls [Interior Night / Xbox Game Studios]
• 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]

Best Ongoing

• 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 Mobile Game

• Apex Legends Mobile [Lightspeed Studios]
• Diablo Immortal [Blizzard / NetEase]
• Genshin Impact [Hoyovese]
• MARVEL SNAP [Second Dinner Studios / Nuverse]
• Tower of Fantasy [Hotta Studio / Perfect World / Level Infinite]

Best Community Support

• Apex Legends [Respawn / EA]
• Destiny 2 [Bungie]
• FINAL FANTASY XIV [Square Enix]
• Fortnite [Epic Games]
• No Man's Sky [Hello Games]

Innovation in Accessibility

• 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 I [Naughty Dog / SIE]
• The Quarry [SuperMassive Games / 2K]

Best VR/AR

• After the Fall [Vertigo Games]
• Among Us VR [Schell Games / InnerSloth]
• BONELAB [Stress Level Zero]
• Moss: Book II [Polyarc]
• Red Matter 2 [Vertical Robot]

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 Action / Adventure

• 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]
• Tunic [Tunic Team / Finji]

Best Role Playing

• Elden Ring [FromSoftware / Bandai Namco]
• Live a Live [Square Enix / Nintendo]
• Pokemon 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 Division]

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II [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]

Content Creator of the Year

• Karl Jacobs
• Ludwig
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Best Debut Indie

• Neon White [Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive]
• NORCO [Geography of Robots / Raw Fury]
• Stray [BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna]
• Tunic [Tunic Team / Finji]
• Vampire Survivors [Poncle]

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]

Most Anticipated Game

• FINAL FANTASY XVI [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]

Best Esports Game

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [Valve]
• DOTA 2 [Valve]
• League of Legends [Riot Games]
• Rocket League [Psyonix]
• VALORANT [Riot Games]

Best Esports Athlete

• 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]
• 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" Dahlstrom [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
• The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
• VALORANT Champions 2022

Closing Notes on The Game Awards 2022

That covers the full slate of 2022 winners and nominees. If you missed the ceremony, the official show VODs are worth a look for the trailers, award speeches, and one deeply strange on-stage interruption during Elden Ring's big moment. Awards shows rarely need a stealth encounter, but 2022 found room for one.