2018 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey (André Gosselin)
• God of War (Eric Fong, Chad Cox & Sean Llewellyn)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (Ara Demirjian)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rob Nelson)
  
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Shinya Saito & Yoshito Higuchi)
  (Honourable Mentions: Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Celeste, Into the Breach, Monster Hunter: World, Return of the Obra Dinn)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Detroit: Become Human (David Cage)
• God of War (Cory Barlog)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (Ryan Smith, Marcus Smith & Brian Horton)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Andrew Semple, Jennifer Kolbe & Steve Martin)
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Daniel Chayer)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Dead Cells, Far Cry 5, Mega Man 11)

Best Game Design

• God of War (Derek Daniels)
• Into the Breach (Jay Ma & Matthew Davis)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (James Cooper, Mike Daly, Cameron Christian & Mark C. Stuart)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Imran Sarwar)
• Subnautica (Michael Schouten)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Celeste, Monster Hunter: World, Return of the Obra Dinn)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Nicolas Doucet)
• Nintendo Labo (Tsubasa Sakaguchi)
• Overcooked 2 (Kevin Carthew & Phil Duncan)
• Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Laurent Melville & Richard Carrillo)
• Super Mario Party (Shuichiro Nishiya)
  (Honourable Mentions: Detective Pikachu, Kirby Star Allies, LEGO The Incredibles, Mario Tennis Aces, Moss)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 19 (Mathew Prior & Santiago Jaramillo)
• Forza Horizon 4 (Ralph Fulton)
• Mario Tennis Aces (Shugo Takahashi & Tomohiro Yamamura)
• NBA 2K19 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (Manorito Hosoda)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Crew 2, F1 2019, MLB '18: The Show, NASCAR Heat 3, Wreckfest)

Best Technical Innovation

• Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Takumi Yoshida & Yuki Miyamae)
• God of War (Florian Strauss)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (Joseph I. Valenzuela)
• Nintendo Labo (Keiichiro Yoshida, Naoki Masuda, Akio Terui, Yuki Onozawa & Kosuke Teshima)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Phil Hooker)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Battlefield V, Forza Horizon 4, Moss, Tetris Effect)

Best Multiplayer

• Battlefield V (David Sirland, Valerian Noghin & Niklas Åstrand)
• Monster Hunter: World
• Sea of Thieves
• Super Mario Party
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Forza Horizon 4, Mario Tennis Aces, Overcooked 2, A Way Out)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• The Banner Saga 3 (Zeb L. West & Andrew Johnson)
• Frostpunk (Michał Drozdowski)
• Into the Breach (Jay Ma & Matthew Davis)
• Jurassic World Evolution (Michael Brookes)
  
• Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Kohei Yamashita & Masaya Kobayashi)
  (Honourable Mentions: BattleTech, House Flipper, Northgard, RimWorld, Two Point Hospital)

Best Audio Design

• Detroit: Become Human (Aurélien Baguerre, Alexis Antoni, Xavier Despas & Carl Malherbe)
• Forza Horizon 4 (Martin Johnson, Nick Wiswell, Douglas Watson & Fraser Strachan)
• God of War (Michael Niederquell, Todd Piperi, Daniel Birczynski & Alex Belzer)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (Phillip A. Kovats, Emile Mika, Robert Burns, Herschell E. Bailey Jr. & David Yingling)
  
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Jeffrey R. Whitcher, Alistair McGregor & Lazlow Jones)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Battlefield V, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Tetris Effect)

Best Music

• God of War (Bear McCreary)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (John Paesano)
• Ni no Kumi II: Revenant Kingdom (Joe Hisaishi)
• Octopath Traveler (Yasunori Nishiki)
• Tetris Effect (Noboru Mutoh)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Odyssey - The Flight, Celeste - Lena Raine, Detroit: Become Human - Philip Sheppard, Nima Fakhara & John Paesano, Far Cry 5 - Dan Romer, Red Dead Redemption 2 - Woody Jackson)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Detective Pikachu (Naoki Miyashita)
• Donut County (Ben Esposito)
• Florence (Ken Wong)
• Reigns: Game of Thrones (François Alliot)
• WarioWare: Gold (Goro Abe & Yoichi Tada)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alto's Odyssey, Brawl Stars, Dandara, Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition, PUBG Mobile)

Best Fighting Game

• DragonBall FighterZ (Junya C Motomura)
• Soul Calibur IV (Yoshinori Takahashi)
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Masahiro Sakurai)

Best Art Direction

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Thierry Dansereau)
• God of War (Nate Stephens, John Palmarchuk & Timo Pihlajamäki)
• Octopath Traveler (Mika Iizuka)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Aaron Garbut)
• Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope)
  (Honourable Mentions: Detroit: Become Human, Gris, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Subnautica)

Best Animation

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Anaïs Dusautois, Anthony Le Du, Sébastien Carrier & Hélène Simard)
• God of War (Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto & Mehdi Yssef)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (Robert Coddington, Danny Garnett, Elliot Grossman & Brian Wyser)
• Moss (Richard Lico)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Jim Jagger & Mark Tennant)
  (Honourable Mentions: Astro Bot Rescue Mission, Detroit: Become Human, Gris, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

Best Story/Writing

• Detroit: Become Human (David Cage & Adam Williams)
• Florence (Ken Wong)
• God of War (Matthew Sophos, Richard Zangrande Gilbert & Cory Barlog)
• Marvel's Spider-Man (Jon Paquette, Benjamin Arfmann & Kelsey Beachum)
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (Dan Houser, Michael Unsworth & Rupert Humphries)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Frostpunk, Octopath Traveler, Return of the Obra Dinn, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Roger Clark - Red Dead Redemption 2 for voicing Arthur Morgan
• Valorie Curry - Detroit: Become Human for voicing Kara
• Bryan Dechart - Detroit: Become Human for voicing Connor
• Christopher Judge - God of War for voicing Kratos
• Yuri Lowenthal - Marvel's Spider-Man for voicing Peter Parker/Spider-Man
  (Honourable Mentions: Laura Bailey - Marvel's Spider-Man, Jeremy Davies - God of War, Melissanthi Mahut - Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Cali Elizabeth Moore - Red Dead Redemption 2, Sunny Suljic - God of War)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Astro Bot Rescue Mission (Nicolas Doucet)
• Firewall Zero Hour (Grady Hunt)
• Jurassic World Alive (Arianne Lapierre & Vincent Noiret)
• Moss (Richard Lico)
• Tetris Effect (Takashi Ishihara)
  (Honourable Mentions: Budget Cuts, Doom VFR, The Inpatient, Spring Vector, Transference)