Tyler's Choice Awards: 2019 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Control (Juha Vainio)
Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima, Kenichiro Imaizumi & James Vance)
The Outer Worlds (Eric DeMilt)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Yuzo Kojima & Takahiro Yamamoto)
Untitled Goose Game (Felix Kramer & Nick Suttner)
(Honourable Mentions: Disco Elysium, Luigi's Mansion 3, Outer Wilds, Resident Evil 2, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Control (Mikael Kasurinen)
Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Mikiharu Ōiwa)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Hidetaka Miyazaki)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Stig Asmussen)
(Honourable Mentions: Apex Legends, Astral Chain, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Devil May Cry 5, Gears 5)

Best Game Design

Baba is You (Arvi Teikari)
Disco Elysium (Robert Kurvitz)
Outer Wilds (Loan Verneau & Alex Beachum)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Masaru Yamamura & Yuki Fukuda)
Untitled Goose Game (Stuart Gillespie-Cook, Nico Disseldorp & Michael McMaster)
(Honourable Mentions: Apex Legends, Control, Death Stranding, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Tetris 99)

Best Family/Casual Game

Concrete Genie (Dominic Robilliard)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Bryce Holliday)
Ring Fit Adventure (Hiroshi Matsunaga)
Super Mario Maker 2 (Yosuke Oshino)
Yoshi's Crafted World (Masahiro Yamamoto)
(Honourable Mentions: Dragon Quest Builders 2, Kingdom Hearts III, Pokémon Sword & Shield, Sky: Children of the Sky, Tetris 99)

Best Sport/Racing Game

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Philippe Turcotte)
FIFA 20 (Mathew Prior)
NBA 2K20 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
NHL 20 (William Ho & Sean Ramjagsingh)
Trials Rising (Antti Ilvessuo)
(Honourable Mentions: Dirt Rally 2.0, F1 2019, Madden NFL 20, MLB '19: The Show, Pro Evolution Soccer 2020)

Best Technical Innovation

Control (Sean Donnelly)
Death Stranding (Akio Sakamoto)
Metro Exodus (Oles Shishkovtsov, Alexander Maksimchuk & Vlad Gapchych)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Yoshitaka Suzuki)
Untitled Goose Game (Cherie Davidson)
(Honourable Mentions: Apex Legends, Astral Chain, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Days Gone, Outer Wilds)

Best Multiplayer

Apex Legends
Borderlands 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Luigi's Mansion 3
Tetris 99
(Honourable Mentions: FIFA 20, Mortal Kombat 11, Red Dead Online, Tick Tock: A Tale for Two, Tom Clancy's The Division 2)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Lennart Sas)
Anno 1800 (Dirk Riegert)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Toshiyuki Kusakihara & Genki Yokota)
Total War: Three Kingdoms (János Gáspár)
Tropico 6 (Alexander Frey & Stephan Winter)
(Honourable Mentions: Hypnospace Outlaw, John Wick Hex, Oxygen Not Included, Slay the Spire, Wargroove)

Best Audio Design

Cadence of Hyrule (Jeff Tangsoc, Joey Godard, Kevin Regamey & Cole Verderber)
Control (Michael Schwendler, Tristan Horton, Benjamin Drumeaux & Felix Diekhake)
Death Stranding (Ludvig Forssell, Mike Niederquell, Kotaro Mori & Hiroyuki Nakayama)
Resident Evil 2 (Kentaro Nakashima, Yusuke Kinoshita, Kenji Kojima & Masahiko Minami)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Kevin Notar, Sam Bird, Oscar Coen & Paxson Helgesen)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Gears 5, Mortal Kombat 11, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Untitled Goose Game)

Best Music

Control (Petri Alanko & Martin Stig Andersen)
Death Stranding (Ludvig Forssell)
Erica (Austin Wintory)
Kingdom Hearts III (Yoko Shimamura, Takeharu Ishimoto & Tsuyoshi Sekito)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Yuka Kitamura)
(Honourable Mentions: Cadence of Hyrule - Danny Baranowsky, Disco Elysium - British Sea Power, Far Cry New Dawn - Tyler Bates & John Swihart, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Ryo Nagamatsu, Outer Wilds - Andrew Prahlow)

Best Mobile Game

Call of Duty: Mobile (Colin Yao & Vincent Gao)
Grindstone (Dan Vader)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simon Flesser)
Sky: Children of the Light (Jenova Chen)
What the Golf? (Tim Garbos & Peter Bruun)
(Honourable Mentions: Assemble with Care, The Elder Scrolls: Blades, Immortal Rogue, Pilgrims, Rayman Mini)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

Control (Janne Pulkkinen)
Death Stranding (Yoji Shinkawa)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Masaki Yasuda)
The Outer Worlds (Daniel Alpert)
Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simon Flesser)
(Honourable Mentions: Concrete Genie, Disco Elysium, Gris, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Yoshi's Crafted World)

Best Animation

Control (Ilkka Kuusela, Fraser Colley & Maksym Zhuravlov)
Days Gone (Jake Spence & Emmanuel Roth)
Death Stranding (Masaaki Kawata)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (Marie Wyatt, Sota Yuyama & Aric Norine)
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Takashi Sato & Nobuto Usui)
(Honourable Mentions: Astral Chain, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)

Best Story/Writing

Control (Sam Lake, Clay Murphy & Josh Stubbs)
Death Stranding (Hideo Kojima, Kenji Yano & Shuyo Murata)
Disco Elysium (Robert Kurvitz)
Outer Wilds (Kelsey Beachum)
Telling Lies (Sam Barlow & Amelia Gray)
(Honourable Mentions: The Outer Worlds, A Plague Tale: Innocence, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Trover Saves the Universe)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Ashly Burch - The Outer Worlds for voicing Parvati Holcomb
Courtney Hope - Control for voicing Jesse Faden
Mads Mikkelsen - Death Stranding for voicing Cliff
Norman Reedus - Death Stranding for voicing Sam Porter Bridges
Justin Roiland - Trover Saves the Universe for voicing various characters
(Honourable Mentions: Laura Bailey - Gears 5, Logan Marshall-Green - Telling Lies, Charlotte McBurney - A Plague Tale: Innocence, Cameron Monaghan - Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Matthew Perrotta - Control)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

Asgard's Wrath (William A. Spence IV)
Beat Saber (Ján Ilavský & Peter Hrinčár)
Blood & Truth (Stuart Whyte)
Trover Saves the Universe (Matty Studivan & Justin Roiland)
Vader Immortal (Ben Snow)
(Honourable Mentions: Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Minecraft Earth, Nintendo Labo VR Kit, No Man's Sky Beyond, Pistol Whip)

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