2017 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year [TIE]

• Cuphead (Ryan Moldenhauer & Marija Moldenhauer)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Lambert Wolterbeek-Muller)
  
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto & Shinya Takahashi)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Kim Chang-han)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Koichi Hayashida & Yoshiaki Koizumi)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Nier: Automata, Persona 5, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, What Remains of Edith Finch)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Destiny 2 (Christopher Barrett & Luke Smith)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Mathijs de Jonge)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Kenta Motokura)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jens Matthies)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Origins, Cuphead, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Game Design

• Cuphead (Jared Moldenhauer)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Troy Mashburn, David Ford, Lauren Simonis & Floris Kooij)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Kentaro Tominaga, Hiroaki Tamura & Yohei Fujino)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Brendan Greene) 
• Super Mario Odyssey (Futoshi Shirai & Shinya Hiratake)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Origins, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Nier: Automata, Persona 5, Sonic Mania)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Cuphead (Chad & Jared Moldenhauer)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Kosuke Yabuki)
• Sonic Mania (Christian Whitehead)
• Splatoon 2 (Yusuke Amano, Seita Inoue & Shintaro Saro)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Kenta Motokura)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gnog, A Hat in Time, Just Dance 2018, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Snipperclips)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 18 (Mathew Prior)
• Forza Motorsport 7 (William Giese & Dan Greenawalt)
• Gran Turismo Sport (Kazunori Yamauchi)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Kosuke Yabuki)
• NBA 2K18 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
  (Honourable Mentions: Everybody's Golf, Golf Clash, Madden NFL 18, MLB '17: The Show, Project Cars 2)

Best Technical Innovation

• Horizon Zero Dawn (Michiel van der Leeuw)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Takuhiro Dohta, Kenji Matsutani & Hiroshi Umemiya)
• Nier: Automata (Ryo Onishi)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Norihiro Aoyagi & Wataru Tanaka)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jim Kjellin)
  (Honourable Mentions: Destiny 2, Lone Echo, Persona 5, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard)

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: WWII
• Destiny 2
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
• Splatoon 2

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Gran Turismo Sport (Kazunori Yamauchi)
• Halo Wars (Alistair Hope)
• Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (Davide Soliani)
  
• Total War: Warhammer II (Ian Roxburgh)
• XCOM: War of the Chosen (Jacob Solomon)
  (Honourable Mentions: Car Mechanic Simulation 2018, Endless Space 2, Fire Emblem Heroes, No More Heroes VR!, Tooth and Tail)

Best Audio Design

• Destiny 2 (C Paul Johnson, Evan Buehler, David Henry & Jay Weinland)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Hajime Wakai, Yohei Miyagawa, Mitsuhiro Hikino & Ryu Tamura)
• Nier: Automata (Misaki Shindo, Yuji Honda & Shuji Kohata)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Wataru Hachisako, Kenji Kojima & Yusuke Kinoshita)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Mahito Yokota, Wataru Tanimura & Yuki Tsuji)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed: Origins, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Lone Echo, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Music

• Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest & Jonathan Williams)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka & Yasuaki Iwata)
  
• Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii & Koji Kondo)
• Wolfenstein: The New Colossus (Mick Gordon & Martin Stig Andersen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Origins - Sarah Schachner, Destiny 2 - Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin & C Paul Johnson, Nier: Automata (Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi & Kuniyuki Takahashi, Persona 5 - Shoji Meguro, What Remains of Edith Finch - Jeff Russo)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (Kazuyoshi Sensui)
• Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Akihiro Hino) 
• Ever Oasis (Koichi Ishii)
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Toshiyuki Kusakihara, Kenta Nakanishi & Genki Yokota)
• Metroid: Samus Returns (Takehiko Hosokawa)
  (Honourable Mentions: Fire Emblem Heroes, Golf Story, Gorogoa, Monster Hunter Stories, Monument Valley 2)

Best Fighting Game

• ARMS (Kenta Saro, Masaaki Ishikawa & Shintaro Jikumaru)
• Injustice 2 (Ed Boon)
• Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (Norio Hirose)
• Nidhogg 2 (Mark Essen)
• Tekken 7 (Katsuhiro Harada, Yuichi Yonemori & Kouhei Ikeda)

Best Art Direction

• Assassin's Creed Origins (Raphaël Lacoste)
• Cuphead (Marija Moldenhauer)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Dan Attwell)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Satoru Takizawa)
• Persona 5 (Masayoshi Suto)
  (Honourable Mentions: Destiny 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Night in the Woods, Super Mario Odyssey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Animation

• Cuphead (Chad Moldenhauer, Hannah Abi-Hanna, Jake Clark & Tina Nawrocki)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Chris Goodall, Jitaik Lim & Kirill Spiridonov)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Richard Oud, Kevin Quaid, Niek Neervens & Peer Lemmers)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Masato Miyazaki, Yuki Yanagimoto, Keiichi Sato & Kohei Okumura)
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Almudena Soria Sancho, Eric Baldwin, Kion Phillips & Troy Slough)
  (Honourable Mentions: For Honor, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Persona 5, Splatoon 2)

Best Story/Writing

• Horizon Zero Dawn (John Gonzalez & Benjamin McCaw)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Akihito Toda & Naoki Mori)
• Night in the Woods (Bethany Hockenberry & Scott Benson)
• What Remains of Edith Finch (Ian Dallas)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jens Matthies & Tommy Tordsson Björk)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Nier: Automata, Persona 5, Tacoma, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Laura Bailey - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Claudia Black - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Brian Bloom - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
• Ashly Burch - Horizon Zero Dawn
• Melina Juergens - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
  (Honourable Mentions: Nathan Fillion - Destiny 2, Valerie Rose Lohman - What Remains of Edith, Katie O'Hagan - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Scott Porter - Guardians of the Galaxy, Abubakar Salim - Assassin's Creed Origins)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Lone Echo (Ru Weerasuriya & Dana Jan)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Koshi Nakanishi)
• Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (Alex Schwartz & Liz Pate)
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Brian Tate)
• SUPERHOT VR (Piotr Iwanicki)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Farpoint, Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, Robo Recall)