The Game Awards 2022: The Full List Of Winners

The Game Awards, arguably one of the biggest video game award shows of this generation, took place earlier tonight with various developers and publishers in attendance. The Oscars-like awards show kicked off with major announcements and reveals before handing out trophies to the best games in the industry.

Some of the key reveals during the show included the world premiere trailer for Diablo 4, the pre-alpha teaser trailer for Funcom’s Dune Awakening survival MMO, Digital Extremes’ official reveal trailer for its new online action RPG Wayfinder, and confirmation of Amazon’s plans to bring Blue Protocol to the west in the second half of 2023.

As for the winners of this year’s The Game Awards, Elden Ring bagged the highly-coveted Game of the Year award, beating out God of War Ragnarok, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Game Director Hidetaka Miyazaki personally accepted the award and thanked the team at FromSoftware, as well as Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) author George R.R. Martin who wrote the backstory and lore for the game. Elden Ring also won the awards for Best RPG, Best Game Direction, and Best Art Direction.

Here’s the full list of winners:

Game of the Year

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Best Game Direction

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Best Narrative

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Art Direction

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Best Score & Music

• Bear McReary for God of War Ragnarok

Best Audio Design

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Performance

• Christopher Judge in God of War Ragnarok

Games for Impact

• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Ongoing GameBes

• Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

Best Debut Indie

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Community Support

• Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

Best Mobile Game

• Marvel SNAP (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)

Best VR/AR Game

• Moss: Book II (Polyarc)

Best Action Game

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Role-Playing Game

• Elden Ring (From Software/Bandai Namco)

Best Fighting Game

• MultiVersus (Player First Games/ Warner Bros. Games)

Best Family Game

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory/Nintendo)

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• Mario + Rabbids Spark of Hope (Ubisoft)

Best Sports/Racing Game

• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Multiplayer Game

• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo)

Most Anticipated Game

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)

Content Creator of the Year

• Ludwig

Best Adaptation

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

Innovation in Accessibility

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best E-Sports Game

• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best E-Sports Athlete

• Jacob “Vay” Whiteaker of Cloud 9 (Valorant)

Best E-Sports Team

• LOUD (Valorant)

Best E-Sports Coach

• Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi of LOUD (Valorant)

Best E-Sports Event

• League of Legends World Championship 2022