• 2014: Dragon Age: Inquisition (TGA and DICE), Dark Souls II (GJA), Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (GDCA), Destiny (BAFTA)
  • 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (TGA, GJA and GDCA), Fallout 4 (DICE and BAFTA)
  • 2016: Overwatch (TGA, DICE and GDCA), Dark Souls III (GJA), Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (BAFTA)
  • 2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (TGA, GJA, DICE and GDCA), What Remains of Edith Finch (BAFTA)
  • 2018: God of War (TGA, DICE, BAFTA and GDCA), Fortnite (GJA)
  • 2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (TGA), Resident Evil 4 (GJA), Untitled Goose Game (DICE and GDCA), Outer Wilds (BAFTA)
  • 2020: The Last of Us Part II (TGA and GJA), Hades (DICE, BAFTA and GDCA)
  • 2021: It Takes Two (TGA and DICE), Inscryption (GDCA), Resident Evil Village (GJA), Returnal (BAFTA)
  • 2022: Elden Ring (TGA, GJA, DICE and GDCA), Vampire Survivors (BAFTA)
  • 2023: Baldur’s Gate 3 (TGA, DICE, BAFTA, GJA and GDCA)

Legend: TGA - The Game Awards, GJA - Golden Joystick Awards, BAFTA - British Academy of Film and Television Awards, DICE - DICE Awards, GDCA - Game Developers Choice Awards.

This list doesn’t include awards before 2014, because The Game Awards launched that year.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    3·
    17 hours ago

    I personally don’t care which game wins the awards. I’m there watching for entertainment. I see lot of discussions and people take the awards too serious in my opinion. It’s like taking IGN scores serious. :D

    What’s wild to me is, that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom didn’t appear once on this list.

    • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      14 hours ago

      What’s wild to me is, that Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom didn’t appear once on this list.

      Makes sense to me IMO. 2023 was a stacked year, and while TotK was a pretty good game, it was way too close to Breath of the Wild for me to even consider it as game of the year. Other games that could’ve won the award over it include Alan Wake 2, Resident Evil 4 Remake, Hi-Fi Rush, and Octopath Traveler 2.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Well it’s listing only one game per year and BG seems to be the winner for 2023.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        2·
        16 hours ago

        Not exactly. Per year are multiple games listed. Its just incredible that Zelda didn’t won a single award, based on this list.

        • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          9 hours ago

          It won awards, but it didn’t get the “overall game of the year” award from any of those 5 outlets. And, compared to baldurs gate 3 I think its quite easy to understand why. Totk was a well polished experience but it suffered quite a lot from “mile wide inch deep” syndrome IMHO. Probably one of the best games Nintendo has ever made, but it isn’t as good as baldur’s gate 3.