2020 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Hisashi Nogami)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Brian Fleming)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Gabe Newell & Bill van Buren)
• The Last of Us Part II (Evan Wells & Neil Druckmann)
  
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Ara Demirjian)
  (Honourable Mentions: Doom Eternal, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Genshin Impact, Hades, Ori and the Will of the Wisps)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Ghost of Tsushima (Nate Fox & Jason Connell)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Gabe Newell)
• The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann, Anthony Newman & Kurt Margenau)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Thomas Mahler)
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Brian Horton, Marcus Smith & Bryan Intihar)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Doom Eternal, Fall Guys, Resident Evil 3, Streets of Rage 4)

Best Game Design

• Astro's Playroom (Gento Morita)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Nate Fox, Jason Connell, Jeff McGann & Parker Hamilton)
• Hades (Eduardo Gorinstein)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Dario Casali & Corey Peters)
• The Last of Us Part II (Richard Cambier & Emilia Schatz)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Yakuza: Like a Dragon)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Aya Kyogoku)
• Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (Daniel Neil)
• Dreams (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
• Fall Guys (Jamie Riding)
• Minecraft Dungeons (Måns Olson)
  (Honourable Mentions: Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, Paper Mario: The Origami King, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Super Mario Bros. 35)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 21 (Mathew Prior & Adam Shaikh)
• Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Daniel Doptis)
• MLB '20: The Show (Jason Villa)
• NBA 2K21 (Jeffrey J. Thomas, Erick Boenisch & Mike Wang)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 (Barry Morales)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dirt 5, F1 2020, Madden NFL 21, PGA Tour 2K21, Project Cars 3)

Best Technical Innovation

• Dreams (Alex Evans & David Smith)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Adrian Bentley & Chris Zimmerman)
• The Last of Us Part II (Travis McIntosh & Christian Gyrling)
• Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Jan-Erik Steel, Ed Tumbusch, Brian Baron & Patrick Donnelly)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (Alain Guyet, Lionel Fuentes, Sebastian Wloch & Sebastien Ricolfi)
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Joel Bartley, Ross McIntosh & Douglas Sheehan)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hades, Half-Life: Alyx, Paper Beast, Resident Evil 3)

Best Multiplayer

• Among Us: Nintendo Switch Edition
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Fall Guys (Ben Sizer, Andrew John Copland, Etienne De Villiers & David Partouche)
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Valorant
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty Warzone, Deep Rock Galactic, Moving Out, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (George Kamitani)
• Crusader Kings III (Henrik Fåhraeus)
• Desperados III (Dominik Abé)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator (David Dedeine)
• XCOM: Chimera Squad (Andrew Frederiksen & Sarah Lynn)
  (Honourable Mentions: Factorio, Gears Tactics, Monster Train, Per Aspera, PGA Tour 2K21)

Best Audio Design

• Ghost of Tsushima (Phillip A. Kovats, Chris Canning, Jeremie Voillot & Michael Niederquell)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Michael Palm, Ronald Dutch Hill, Aaron Southerland & Garrett Montgomery)
• The Last of Us Part II (Robert Krekel, Phillip A. Kovats, Jeremie Voillot & Neil Uchitel)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Kristoffer Larson, Alan Rankin, Kyle Bailey & Michael Finley)
• Resident Evil 3 (Yoshito Kato, Toshihiko Horiyama, Shotaro Nakayama & Takahiro Kitagawa)
  (Honourable Mentions: Doom Eternal, Dreams, Hades, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Spider-Man: Miles Morales)

Best Music

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu & Mitsuto Suzuki)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Ilan Eshkeri & Shigeru Umebayashi)
• Hades (Darren Korb)
• The Last of Us Part II (Gustavo Santaolalla)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Gareth Coker)
• The Pathless (Austin Wintory)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cyberpunk 2077 - P.T. Adamczyk, Marcin Przybyłowicz & Paul Leonard-Morgan, Doom Eternal - Mick Gordon, Little Orpheus - Jim Fowler & Jessica Curry, Spider-Man: Miles Morales - John Paesano)

Best Mobile Game

• Genshin Impact (Cai Haoyu & Yu-peng Chen)
• Legends of Runeterra (Andrew Yip & Dave Guskin)
• Little Orpheus (Dan Pinchbeck)
• The Pathless (Matt Nava)
• Pokémon Café Mix (Yoshinori Obishaku)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, Game of Thrones: Tales of Crows, HoloVista, Song of Bloom, South of the Circle)

Best Fighting Game

• Granblue Fantasy Versus (Tetsuya Fukuhara)
• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Ryouta Matsushita)
• One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (Yasuhiro Abe)
• Street Fighter V Champion Edition (Takayuki Nakayama)
• Them's Fightin' Herds (Aaron Stavely & Lauren Faust)
  (Honourable Mentions: EA Sports UFC 4, Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate Edition, Streets of Rage 4, Treachery in Beatdown City, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r])

Best Art Direction

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Shintaro Takai)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Jason Connell)
• Hades (Joanne Tran & Jen Zee)
• The Last of Us Part II (Erick Pangilinan & John Sweeney)
  
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Daniel van Leeuwen & Jeremy Gritton)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cyberpunk 2077, Genshin Impact, Half-Life: Alyx, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Spiritfarer)

Best Animation

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Yoshiyuki Soma, Akira Iwasawa & Ryo Hara)
• Ghost of Tsushima (John Meehan, Douglas Hagstrom & Tom Bland)
• The Last of Us Part II (Jeremy Yates, Almudena Soria Sancho, Eric Baldwin & Troy Slough)
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Warren Goff, Jim Davidson, Jason Martinsen & Boris Hiestand)
• Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Robert Coddington, Danny Garnett, Elliot Grossman & Michael Yosh)
  (Honourable Mentions: Carrion, Doom Eternal, Genshin Impact, Nioh 2, Spiritfarer)

Best Story/Writing

• Cyberpunk 2077 (Marcin Blacha & Tomasz Marchewka)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Kazushige Nojima)
• Ghost of Tsushima (Ian Ryan, Liz Albl, Patrick Downs & Jordan Lemos)
• Hades (Greg Kasavin)
• The Last of Us Part II (Neil Druckmann & Halley Gross)
  (Honourable Mentions: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Half-Life: Alyx, Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Yakuza: Like a Dragon)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Laura Bailey - The Last of Us Part II for voicing Abby
  
• Cody Christian - Final Fantasy VII Remake for voicing Cloud Strife
• Nadji Jeter - Spider-Man: Miles Morales for voicing Miles Morales
• Ashley Johnson - The Last of Us Part II for voicing Ellie
• Daisuke Tsuji - Ghost of Tsushima for voicing Jin Sakai
  (Honourable Mentions: Logan Cunningham - Hades, Patrick Gallagher - Ghost of Tsushima, Cherami Leigh - Cyberpunk 2077, Keanu Reeves - Cyberpunk 2077, George Takei - Yazuka: Like a Dragon)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Dreams (Mark Healey & Siobhan Reddy)
• Half-Life: Alyx (Bill van Buren & Gabe Newell)
• Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (Daniel Doptis)
• Star Wars Squadrons (Ian S. Frazier)
• The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners (Adam Grantham)
  (Honourable Mentions: Down the Rabbit Hole, Iron Man VR, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Paper Beast, The Room VR: A Dark Matter)