The Game Awards 2022: the list of nominees revealed

Next month, Geoff Keighley will once again present the ceremony of Game Awards, the opportunity to discover a lot of announcements for future highly anticipated video games, but also to deliver some rewards. Yes, this is above all the purpose of the event, even if the players are waiting for trailers.

All the same, video game fans want to know who will be the Game of the Yearthe game that will have marked the year 2022, and the nominees have just been unveiled. The price of GOTY will be played between A Plague Tale: Requiem, Elden Ring, God of War: Ragnarök, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray and Xenoblade Chronicles 3, but other categories are obviously present. Here are the nominees for the Game Awards 2022 :

Game of the Year :

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem;

  • Elden Ring;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Skyline Forbidden West;

  • Stray;

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Best Achievement :

  • Elden Ring;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Skyline Forbidden West;

  • Immortality;

  • Stray.

Best Storytelling :

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem;

  • Elden Ring;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Skyline Forbidden West;

  • Immortality.

Best Art Direction :

  • Elden Ring;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Skyline Forbidden West;

  • Scorn;

  • Stray;

Best Soundtrack :

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem;

  • Elden Ring;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Metal: Hellsinger;

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Best Audio Design :

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II;

  • Elden Ring;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Gran Turismo 7;

  • Skyline Forbidden West.

Better performance :

  • Ashly Burch (Horizon Forbidden West);

  • Charlotte McBurney (A Plague Tale: Requiem);

  • Christopher Judge (God of War: Ragnarok);

  • Manon Gage (immortality);

  • Sunny Suljic (God of War: Ragnarok).

Most Impactful Game :

  • A Memoir Blue;

  • As Dusk Falls;

  • Citizen Sleeper;

  • Endling – Extinction is Forever;

  • Hindsight;

  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist.

Best ever evolving game :

  • Apex Legends;

  • Destiny 2;

  • Final Fantasy XIV Online;

  • Fortnite;

  • Genshin Impact.

Best Indie Game :

  • Cult of the Lamb;

  • Neon White;

  • Sifu;

  • Stray;

  • Tunic.

Best mobile game :

  • Apex Legends Mobile;

  • Diablo Immortal;

  • Genshin Impact;

  • Marvel Snap;

  • Tower of Fantasy.

Better community support :

  • Apex Legends;

  • Destiny 2;

  • Final Fantasy XIV Online;

  • Fortnite;

  • No Man’s Sky.

Innovation in accessibility :

  • As Dusk Falls;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Return to Monkey Island;

  • The Last of us Part I;

  • The Quarry.

Best game in VR/AR :

  • After the Fall;

  • Among Us VR;

  • Bonelab;

  • Moss: Book II;

  • RedMatter 2.

Best action game :

  • Bayonetta 3;

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II;

  • Neon White;

  • Sifu;

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.

Best action and adventure game :

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem;

  • God of War: Ragnarok;

  • Skyline Forbidden West;

  • Stray;

  • Tunic.

Best RPG :

  • Elden Ring;

  • Live A Live;

  • Pokémon Legends: Arceus;

  • Triangle Strategy;

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

best fighting game :

  • DNF Dueling;

  • JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R;

  • The King of Fighters XV;

  • Multiverse;

  • Sifu.

Best family game :

  • Kirby and the Forgotten World;

  • LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga;

  • Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope;

  • Nintendo Switch Sports;

  • Splatoon 3.

Best Simulation/Strategy Game :

  • Dune: Spice Wars;

  • Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope;

  • Total War: Warhammer III;

  • Two Point Campus;

  • Victoria 3.

Best sports/racing game :

  • F1 22;

  • FIFA 23;

  • NBA 2K23;

  • Grna Turismo 7;

  • OlliOlli World.

Best multiplayer game :

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II;

  • Multiverse;

  • Overwatch 2;

  • Splatoon 3;

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge.

Content Creator of the Year :

  • Karl Jacobs;

  • Ludwig;

  • Nibellion;

  • Nobru;

  • QTCinderella.

Best First Indie Game :

  • Neon White;

  • Norco;

  • Stray;

  • Tunic;

  • Vampire Survivors.

Best adaptation :

  • Arcane: League of Legends;

  • Cyberpunk: Edge Runners;

  • The Cuphead Show! ;

  • Sonic 2 the movie;

  • Uncharted.

Most anticipated game :

  • Final Fantasy XVI;

  • Hogwarts Legacy: The Hogwarts Legacy;

  • Resident Evil 4;

  • Starfield;

  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

Best esports game :

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive;

  • Dota 2;

  • League of Legends ;

  • Rocket League;

  • Valorant.

Best Professional Esports Player :

  • Jeong “Chovy” Ji-Hoon;

  • Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok;

  • Finn “Karrigan” Andersen;

  • Oleksandr “Simple” Kostyliev;

  • Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker.

Best esports team :

  • DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends);

  • Faze Clan (CS:GO);

  • Gen.G (LoL);

  • LA Thieves (Call of Duty);

  • Loud (Valorant).

best esports coach :

  • Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi;

  • Matheus “Bzka” Tarasconi;

  • Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren;

  • Robert “Robban” Dahlström;

  • Go “Score” Dong-Bin.

Best esports event :

  • EVO 2022;

  • 2022 League of Legends World Championship;

  • PGL Major Antwerp 2022;

  • The 2022 Mid-season Invitational;

  • Valorant Champions 2022.

We will find out who will be the big winners of the Game Awards 2022 next December 8but you can already make your predictions in comments and find God of War: Ragnarokthe favorite, to €69.99 on Amazon.

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