The end of the year marks the annual Game Awards ceremony, an awards show set to air on December 8, 2022. Geoff Keighley's yearly event will once again highlight "the best of video games" that have released this year.
Heavy hitters this year include Sony's Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnarok, FromSoftware's Elden Ring, and BlueTwelve Studio's Stray. In addition to Game of the Year, each of those titles have been nominated in other categories such as Best Narrative (Horizon, Elden Ring, God of War), and Best Game Direction (God of War, Elden Ring, Stray).
For the awards show overall, it's God of War Ragnarok that's snagged the most nominations with 10, followed closely by Elden Ring and Horizon (7 each), and Stray (6). A selection of other nominees can be seen below, with a full list available on the Game Awards website.
Game of the Year
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Innovation in Accessibility
As Dusk Falls (Interior/Night/Xbox Game Studios)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
The Last of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/Sony)
The Quarry (Supermassive Games/Sony)
Best Debut Game
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio)
Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
Tunic (Tunic Team/Finji)
Vampire Survivors (Poncle)
Games for Impact
As Dusk Falls (Interior/Night/Xbox Game Studios)
A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna Interactive)
Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveler)
Endling: Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/Handygames)
Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna Interactive)
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
Best Narrative
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