The Game Awards 2022 took place on the evening of December 8 in Los Angeles. Many awards were handed out throughout the course of this lengthy show, culminating with the announcement of the highly coveted overall Game of the Year award.
Elden Ring stood out to be the winner, amongst several highly popular and fascinating nominees like A Plague Tale: Requiem, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Stray, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
In addition to overall Game of the Year, Elden Ring won Best Game Direction, Best Art Direction, and Best RPG. God of War Ragnarok led all others with 10 total nominations, while Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West have 7 nominations each.
The awards ceremony was certainly an exciting affair and the viewers got to witness never-before-seen trailers of some of the most anticipated games in recent months, from Star Wars: Jedi Survivor to Final Fantasy 16 to Judas to Crash Team Rumble to Hellboy: Web of Wyrd, and many more.
The event was live-streamed across more than 40 digital platforms, alongside an additional IMAX experience. It featured musical performances from Halsey, Hozier, and Bear McCreary, and presentations from celebrity guests, including Reggie Fils-Aimé, Al Pacino, Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and Ken and Roberta Williams.
The show introduced a new Best Adaptation award for media adapted from video games. Netflix’s “Arcane,” an animated take on the world of Riot’s “League of Legends,” took home the first best adaptation award.
So, here are the nominees and winners — in bold — for The Game Awards 2022.
Game of the Year
Winner: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Elden Ring won Game of the Year at the Game Awards in Los Angeles
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
Best Game Direction
Winner: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Immortality (Half Mermaid)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Best Narrative
Winner: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Immortality (Half Mermaid)
Best Art Direction
Winner: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Best Score and Music
Winner: Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarök
Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem
Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring
Two Feathers, Metal: Hellsinger
Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Best Audio Design
Winner: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Best Performance
Winner: Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarök
Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
Manon Gage, Immortality
Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarök
Games For Impact
Winner: As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
Endling – Extinction is Forever (Hero beat Studios/HandyGames)
Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
Best Ongoing Game
Winner: FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
Best Indie
Winner: Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Best Debut Indie
Winner: Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Vampire Survivors (poncle)
Best Community Support
Winner: FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Best Mobile
Winner: MARVEL SNAP (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
Genshin Impact (HoYovese)
Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)
Best VR/AR
Winner: Moss: Book II (Polyarc)
After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
BONELAB (Stress Level Zero)
Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)
Best Action
Winner: Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)
Best Action/Adventure
God of War: Ragnarok earned praise from both gamers and critics
Winner: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Best Role Playing
Winner: Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
Best Fighting
Winner: MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
DNF Duel (Arc System Works/EIGHTING/NEOPLE/NEXON)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)
The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Best Family
Winner: Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveller’s Tales/WB Games)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Best Sim/Strategy
Winner: Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)
Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)
Best Sports/Racing
Winner: Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)
Best Multiplayer
Winner: Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)
Most Anticipated
Winner: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
FINAL FANTASY XVI (Square Enix)
Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
Content Creator of the Year
Winner: Ludwig
Karl Jacobs
Nibellion
Nobru
QTCinderella
Best Adaptation
Winner: Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)
The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)
Innovation in Accessibility
Winner: God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
The Last Of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)
The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)
Best Esports Game
Winner: VALORANT (Riot Games)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
DOTA 2 (Valve)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Best Esports Athlete
Winner: Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)
Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon (Gen.G, LOL)
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL)
Finn “karrigan” Andersen ( (FaZe Clan – CS:GO)
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
Best Esports Team
Winner: LOUD (Valorant)
DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
FaZe Clan (CS: GO)
Gen.G (League of Legends)
LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
Best Esports Coach
Winner: Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)
Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)
Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)
Best Esports Event
Winner: 2022 League of Legends World Championship
EVO 2022
PGL Major Antwerp 2022
The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational
VALORANT Champions 2022