The Game Awards, all GOTY winners from 2014 to present
In the last few hours we experienced the evening The Game Awards 2023 and although the Awards were such a small and almost secondary part of the event to touch on the paradoxEvery year it’s interesting to go back over the last twelve months to see how many worthy titles have come to market.
Taking home the laurel for the best game of the year was Baldur’s Gate IIIbut the other candidates – among them The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom And Alan Wake 2 – They were higher than ever before.
How did it go instead? in recent years? In fact, the awards ceremony was held by GOTY gave, in its own way, an idea of what would remain most iconic game of the year? Let’s see it together in this blast from the past.
The Game Awards: all GOTYs from 2014 to today
- 2014: Dragon Age: Inquisition
- 2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- 2016: Overwatch
- 2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- 2018: God of War
- 2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- 2020: The Last of Us – Part II
- 2021: It takes two
- 2022: Elden Ring
- 2023: Baldur’s Gate III
The Game Awards: all GOTY nominees since 2014
It’s also worth giving a sense of how the GOTY Awards have progressed from year to year Find out about the nominations for the different editions for the Game of the Year title to get an idea of who the challengers to the winners were.
GOTY nominations 2014
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Bayonetta 2
- Dark Souls II
- Hearthstone
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
GOTY nominations 2015
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Bloodborne
- Fallout 4
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Super Mario Maker
GOTY nominations 2016
- Overwatch
- Doom
- Inside
- Titanfall 2
- Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
GOTY nominations 2017
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Person 5
- PUBG
- Super Mario Odyssey
GOTY nominations 2018
- God of War
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
- Heavenly
- Marvel’s Spider-Man
- Monster Hunter: World
- Red Dead Redemption 2
GOTY nominations 2019
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- control
- Death Stranding
- The Outer Worlds
- Resident Evil 2
- Super Smash Bros Ultimate
GOTY nominations 2020
- The Last of Us – Part II
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Eternal fate
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Hades
GOTY nominations 2021
- It takes two
- Death loop
- Metroid Dread
- Psychonauts 2
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
- Resident Evil Village
GOTY nominations 2022
- Elden Ring
- A Plague Story: Requiem
- God of War: Ragnarok
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Strays
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
GOTY nominations 2023
- Baldur’s Gate III
- Alan Wake 2
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Resident Evil 4
- Super Mario Bros Wonder
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
