All The Game Awards Game Of The Year Winners To Date

At The Game Awards last week, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became the 12th title to win Game of the Year. Since the awards' inception in 2014, the top prize has rarely gone to an independent studio. But that doesn't mean that the biggest publishers always win either.

To date, the publisher with the most Game of the Year Awards is Sony, which emerged victorious last year with Astro Bot, The Last of Us Part 2 in 2020, and God of War in 2018.

Surprisingly, Nintendo has only won the award once, for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in 2017. Microsoft has yet to win any, although it now owns Activision, which took home the award in 2019 for Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Although the onslaught of trailers tends to overshadow The Game Awards themselves, receiving that honor can be a game-changer. CD Projekt's 2015 win for The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt cemented its status as one of the top independent publishers in the industry. That title has also become one of the best-selling games in history.

While there have been winners across multiple game types, RPGs have taken six out of the 12 Game of the Year Awards, and Expedition 33's win is the latest victory for that genre.

The complete list of every Game of the Year Award winner from The Game Awards is reproduced below.

Developer: BioWare

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Runners-up:

• Bayonetta 2
• Dark Souls II
• Hearthstone
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Developer: CD Projekt Red

Publisher: CD Projekt

Runners-up:

• Bloodborne
• Fallout 4
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Super Mario Maker

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment

Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment

Runners-up:

• Doom
• Inside
• Titanfall 2
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End

Developer: Nintendo EPD

Publisher: Nintendo

Runners-up:

• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Persona 5
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
• Super Mario Odyssey

Developer: Santa Monica Studio

Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Runners-up:

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Celeste
• Marvel's Spider-Man
• Monster Hunter: World
• Red Dead Redemption 2

Developer: From Software

Publisher: Activision

Runners-up:

• Control
• Death Stranding
• Resident Evil 2
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• The Outer Worlds

Developer: Naughty Dog

Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Runners-up:

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Doom Eternal
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Hades

Developer: Hazelight Studios

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Runners-up:

• Deathloop
• Metroid Dread
• Psychonauts 2
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village

Developer: From Software

Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment

Runners-up:

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• God of War Ragnarök
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Stray
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Developer: Larian Studios

Publisher: Larian Studios

Runners-up:

• Alan Wake 2
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2
• Resident Evil 4
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Developer: Team Asobi

Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment

Runners-up:

• Balatro
• Black Myth: Wukong
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio

Developer: Sandfall Interactive

Publisher: Kepler Interactive

Runners-up:

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Hades II
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2