2022 Video Game Awards Tracker
Here are the games released during 2022 that have won major industry awards or received nominations for those awards. This page will be updated whenever new awards and nominations are announced.
Recent updates:
Added March 6: BAFTA nominees
Added February 24: DICE winners
Added January 26: GDC nominees
Added January 18: NY Game Awards winners
Added January 12, 2023: DICE nominations, Metacritic Game of the Year, NY Game Awards nominations
Added December 9: The Game Awards winners
Added November 14, 2022: The 2022 version of the awards tracker launched with The Game Awards nominees. (Note: Last year's game awards can now be found here.)
Key to awards:
[BAFTA] BAFTA Games Awards - winners announced Mar. 30
[DICE] D.I.C.E. Awards (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences)
[GDC] Game Developers Choice Awards- winners announced Mar. 22
[MC] Metacritic Game of the Year (overall highest Metascore)
[NY] New York Game Awards
[TGA] The Game Awards
Wins in bold and starred / nominations in regular text
Game of the Year
Cult of the Lamb - BAFTA, NY
Elden Ring - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, MC, NY, TGA
God of War: Ragnarok - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, NY, TGA
Horizon Forbidden West - DICE, TGA
Immortality - GDC, NY
Marvel Snap - BAFTA
Pentiment - GDC, NY
A Plague Tale: Requiem - NY, TGA
Stray - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, TGA
Tunic - GDC
Vampire Survivors - BAFTA, DICE, NY
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - NY, TGA
Indie Game of the Year
Cult of the Lamb - TGA
Immortality - DICE, NY
Neon White - DICE, NY, TGA
Sifu - TGA
Stray - TGA
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge - DICE
Trombone Champ - NY
Tunic - DICE, TGA
Vampire Survivors - DICE, NY
Wordle - NY
Wylde Flowers - NY
Debut Game of the Year
Neon White - GDC, TGA
NORCO - GDC, TGA
Stray - GDC, TGA
Tunic - GDC, TGA
Vampire Survivors - GDC, TGA
Multiplayer/Online Game of the Year
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - BAFTA, DICE, TGA
Elden Ring - BAFTA
FIFA 23 - BAFTA, DICE
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - DICE
Marvel Snap - DICE
MultiVersus - TGA
Overwatch 2 - BAFTA, TGA
Rumbleverse - DICE
Splatoon 3 - BAFTA, TGA
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge - BAFTA, TGA
Ongoing/Evolving Game of the Year
[Games first released prior to 2022 with new content added in 2022]
Apex Legends - BAFTA, TGA
Destiny 2 - TGA
Dreams - BAFTA
The Elder Scrolls Online - BAFTA
Final Fantasy XIV Online - BAFTA, TGA
Fortnite - TGA
Forza Horizon 5 - BAFTA
Genshin Impact - TGA
No Man's Sky - BAFTA
Best Story/Writing
As Dusk Falls - NY
Citizen Sleeper - BAFTA
Elden Ring - DICE, NY, TGA
God of War: Ragnarok - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, NY, TGA
Horizon Forbidden West - TGA
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - DICE, GDC
Immortality - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, NY, TGA
Norco - DICE, NY
Pentiment - BAFTA, GDC
A Plague Tale: Requiem - BAFTA, TGA
Return to Monkey Island - GDC, NY
Roadwarden - NY
Stray - BAFTA
Mobile Game of the Year
Apex Legends Mobile - TGA
Desta: The Memories Between - NY
Diablo Immortal - DICE, TGA
Genshin Impact - TGA
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees - DICE
Immortality - DICE
Marvel Snap - DICE, NY, TGA
Poinpy - DICE, NY
Railbound - NY
Tower of Fantasy - TGA
Wylde Flowers - NY
AR/VR/IR Game of the Year
After the Fall - TGA
Among Us VR - TGA
Bonelab - NY, TGA
Cosmonious High - DICE
The Last Clockwinder - DICE, NY
Lost Recipes - NY
Moss: Book II - DICE, NY, TGA
Red Matter 2 - DICE, TGA
RUINSMAGUS - NY
Tentacular - DICE
Genre-specific awards
Action Game of the Year
Bayonetta 3 - DICE, TGA
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - TGA
Grounded - DICE
Neon White - DICE, TGA
Sifu - DICE, TGA
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge - TGA
Vampire Survivors - DICE
Adventure (or Action-Adventure) Game of the Year
God of War: Ragnarok - DICE, TGA
Horizon Forbidden West - DICE, TGA
Norco - DICE
A Plague Tale: Requiem - TGA
Stray - DICE, TGA
Tunic - DICE, TGA
Fighting Game of the Year
DNF Duel - TGA
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R - DICE, TGA
The King of Fighters XV - DICE, TGA
MultiVersus - DICE, TGA
Rumbleverse - DICE
Sifu - TGA
SpiderHeck - DICE
Role-Playing Game of the Year
Citizen Sleeper - DICE
Elden Ring - DICE, TGA
Live a Live - TGA
Pokémon Legends: Arceus - TGA
Triangle Strategy - TGA
Weird West - DICE
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - DICE
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - DICE, TGA
Simulation/Strategy Game of the Year
Dune: Spice Wars - TGA
Dwarf Fortress - DICE
Ixion - DICE
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope - TGA
Marvel's MIdnight Suns - DICE
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator - DICE
Total War: Warhammer III - TGA
Two Point Campus - TGA
Victoria 3 - TGA
Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters - DICE
Sports/Racing Game of the Year
F1 22 - DICE, TGA
FIFA 23 - DICE, TGA
Gran Turismo 7 - DICE, TGA
Mario Strikers: Battle League - DICE
MLB The Show 22 - DICE
NBA 2K23 - DICE, TGA
Need for Speed Unbound - DICE
OlliOlli World - DICE, TGA
Note that most awards organizations also honor games and creators in additional categories not listed above. We opted to concentrate on those categories that tend to recur most frequently among the different awards groups. In addition, we have omitted awards and organizations (such as the Golden Joystick Awards) that are determined solely by public voting, as well as any awards (like those theoretically handed out in the summer at E3) that don't primarliy correspond to the calendar year.
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