Nominees for Game Awards 2022 Have Been Announced

Geoff Keighley, the host of the Game Awards 2022, introduces all of the nominees who will be evaluated at this year’s event.

The entire list of nominees for Game of the Year and other categories for the Game Awards 2022 has been published.

In the run-up to The Game Awards on December 8, the jury will vote on each category, and the winners will be announced.

A Plague Tale: Requiem, Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are the six titles nominated for Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2022.

The two games with the best chances of being named Game of the Year are Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok, which are the year’s two highest-rated new video game releases.

Elden Ring’s reviews are slightly higher than God of War Ragnarok reviews at the time of writing, with Elden Ring’s overall rating at 95 and Ragnarok’s at 94.

While Elden Ring has a higher overall rating than God of War Ragnarok, Ragnarok has more award nominations this year, which may give it the advantage.

At this year’s Game Honors, God of War Ragnarok has been nominated for ten awards, while Elden Ring has been nominated for seven.

Horizon Forbidden West is also nominated for seven trophies, so it could cause an upset.

Your six nominees for GAME OF THE YEAR at #TheGameAwards:

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem
2. Elden Ring
3. God of War Ragnarok
4. Horizon Forbidden West
5. Stray
6. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

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Winners revealed live, Thursday, December 8 pic.twitter.com/5N8IlZKjTD — The Game Awards (@thegameawards) November 14, 2022

This year, there don’t seem to be any big games that didn’t make the list for Game of the Year, but some people may be confused by how the list is made.

After all, some important games aren’t even out yet, so they’re not eligible for awards in the year they’re released.

This includes titles like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, which will be available exclusively for the Switch later this week, horror game The Callisto Protocol, which will be available on December 2, and Firaxis’ Midnight Suns strategy games, which will be available on the same day.

The Game Awards’ failure to include titles released near the end of the year has long been a source of contention, and this year’s ceremony is no exception.

In any case, fans may tune in to The Game Honors 2022 on December 8 to discover which titles receive which awards, as well as watch all of the key announcements and world premiere trailers.

The following is the complete list of Game Awards 2022 nominees:

Game of the Year

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem
2. Elden Ring
3. God of War Ragnarok
4. Horizon Forbidden West
5. Stray
6. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Game Direction

1. Elden Ring
2. God of War Ragnarok
3. Horizon Forbidden West
4. Immortality
5. Stray

Best Narrative

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem
2. Elden Ring
3. God of War Ragnarok
4. Horizon Forbidden West
5. Immortality

Best Art Direction

1. Elden Ring
2. God of War Ragnarok
3. Horizon Forbidden West
4. Scorn
5. Stray

Best Score and Music

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem
2. Elden Ring
3. God of War Ragnarok
4. Metal: Hellsinger
5. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Audio Design

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Elden Ring
3. God of War Ragnarok
4. Gran Turismo 7
5. Horizon Forbidden West

Best Performance

1. Horizon Forbidden West (Ashly Burch as Aloy)
2. A Plague Tale: Requiem (Charlotte McBurney as Amicia de Rune)
3. God of War Ragnarok (Christopher Judge as Kratos)
4. Immortality (Manon Gage as Marissa Marcel)
5. God of War Ragnarok (Sunny Suljic as Atreus)

Games for Impact

1. A Memoimr Blue
2. As Dusk Falls
3. Citizen Sleeper
4. Endling – Extinction is Forever
5. Hindsight
6. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Best Ongoing

1. Apex Legends
2. Destiny 2
3. Final Fantasy 14
4. Fortnite
5. Genshin Impact

Best Indie

1. Cult of the Lamb
2. Neon White
3. Sifu
4. Stray
5. Tunic

Best Mobile Game

1. Apex Legends Mobile
2. Diablo Immortal
3. Genshin Impact
4. Marvel Snap
5. Tower of Fantasy

Best Community Support

1. Apex Legends
2. Destiny 2
3. Final Fantasy 14
4. Fortnite
5. No Man’s Sky

Innovation in Accessibility

1. As Dusk Falls
2. God of War Ragnarok
3. Return to Monkey Island
4. The Last of Us Part 1
5. The Quarry

Best VR/AR

1. After the Fall
2. Among Us VR
3. Bonelab
4. Moss: Book 2
5. Red Matter 2

Best Action Game

1. Bayonetta 3
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Neon White
4. Sifu
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Best Action/Adventure

1. A Plague Tale: Requiem
2. God of War Ragnarok
3. Horizon Forbidden West
4. Stray
5. Tunic

Best Role Playing

1. Elden Ring
2. Live A Live
3. Pokemon Legends: Arceus
4. Triangle Strategy
5. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Fighting

1. DNF Duel
2. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R
3. The King of Fighters 15
4. MultiVersus
5. Sifu

Best Family

1. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
2. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
3. Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
4. Nintendo Switch Sports
5. Splatoon 3

Best Sim/Strategy

1. Dune: Spice Wars
2. Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
3. Total War: Warhammer 3
4. Two Point Campus
5. Victoria 3

Best Sports/Racing

1. F1 22
2. FIFA 23
3. NBA 2K23
4. Gran Turismo 7
5. OlliOlli World

Best Multiplayer

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. MultiVersus
3. Overwatch 2
4. Splatoon 3
5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Content Creator of the Year

1. Karl Jacobs
2. Ludwig
3. Nibellion
4. Nobru
5. QTCinderella

Best Debut Indie

1. Neon White
2. NORCO
3. Stray
4. Tunic
5. Vampire Survivors

Best Adaptation

1. Arcane: League of Legends
2. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
3. The Cuphead Show!
4. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
5. Uncharted

Most Anticipated Game

1. Final Fantasy 16
2. Hogwarts Legacy
3. Resident Evil 4
4. Starfield
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Tears of the Kingdom

Best Esports Game

1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
2. Dota 2
3. League of Legends
4. Rocket League
5. Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

1. Jeong “Chovy” Ji-Hoon
2. Lee “Faker” Sang-Hyeok
3. Finn “Karrigan” Andersen
4. Okelsander “S1mple” Kostyliev
5. Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker

Best Esports Team

1. Darkzero Esports
2. Faze Clan
3. Gen.G
4. LA Thieves
5. Loud

Best Esports Coach

1. Andrii “B1AD3” Horodenskyi
2. Matheus “Bzka” Tarasconi
3. Erik “D00mbr0s” Sandgren
4. Robert “Robban” Dahlstrom
5. Go “Score” Dong-Bin

Best Esports Event

1. Evo 2022
2. The 2022 League of Legends World Championship
3. PGL Major Antwerp 2022
4. The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
5. Valorant Champions 2022