Tyler's Choice Awards: 2021 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

Deathloop (Yoann Guilloud)
It Takes Two (Aimar Bergan)
Metroid Dread (Yoshio Sakamoto & Shinya Takahashi)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Scott J. Michalek)
Returnal (Suvi Järvinen & Markku Velinen)
(Honourable Mentions: Far Cry 6, Forza Horizon 5, Inscryption, Psychonauts 2, Resident Evil Village)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Back 4 Blood (Phil Robb)
Deathloop (Dinga Bakaba & Sébastien Mitton)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Jean-François Dugas)
Metroid Dread (José Luis Márquez & Fumihiko Hayashi)
Resident Evil Village (Morimasa Sato)
(Honourable Mentions: The Ascent, Far Cry 6, It Takes Two, Psychonauts 2, Returnal)

Best Game Design

Deathloop (Gauthier Roussel, Yoann Saquet & Joackim Daviaud)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins)
It Takes Two (Filip Coulianos)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Josue Benavidez, Mark C. Stuart & Joel Goodsell)
Returnal (Henri Mustonen)
(Honourable Mentions: Age of Empires IV, Far Cry 6, Loop Hero, Metroid Dread, Psychonauts 2)

Best Family/Casual Game

It Takes Two (Josef Fares)
Mario Party Superstars (Takeru Sugimoto)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Cameron Christian, Ryan Smith & Mike Daly)
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Inside Story (Koichi Hayashida)
WarioWare: Get it Together! (Goro Abe & Yu Yamanaka)
(Honourable Mentions: The Artful Escape, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Forza Horizon 5, New Pokémon Snap, Pac-Man 99)

Best Sport/Racing Game

The Climb 2 (Sebastien Laurent & Fatih Özbayram)
FIFA 22 (Mathew Prior)
Forza Horizon 5 (Michael Brown)
Hot Wheels Unleashed (Domenico Celenza)
Riders Republic (Igor Manceau & Arnaud Ragot)
(Honourable Mentions: F1 2022, Mario Golf: Super Rush, MLB '21: The Show, NBA 2K22, NHL 22)

Best Technical Innovation

Deathloop (Hugues Tardif)
Forza Horizon 5 (Matthew Craven & Alan Roberts)
It Takes Two (Lucas de Vries)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Bradley Fitzgerald & Peter Kao)
Returnal (Ari Arnbjörnsson & Markku Velinen)
(Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 2042, Far Cry 6, Lone Echo II, Psychonauts 2, Resident Evil Village)

Best Multiplayer

Back 4 Blood
Forza Horizon 5
It Takes Two
Monster Hunter Rise (Ryuzo Karasutani, Go Tanaka, Ryosuke Murai & Ken Watanabe)
Valheim
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Vanguard, Deathloop, Halo Infinite, Knockout City, New World)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

Age of Empires IV (Adam P. Isgreen)
Farming Simulator 22 (Thomas Frey)
Inscryption (Daniel Mullins)
Jurassic World Evolution 2 (Richard Newbold)
New Pokémon Snap (Haruki Suzaki)
(Honourable Mentions: Demeo, Evil Genius 2: World Domination, Hotel Magnate, Humankind, Loop Hero)

Best Audio Design

Deathloop (Michel Trémouiller, Grégory Desmurs, Thomas Mitton & Benjamin Darmon)
Forza Horizon 5 (Fraser Strachan, Richard Blackley & Ruaraigh Chapman)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Phillip A. Kovats, Jeremie Voillot, Emile Mika & Zack Bogucki)
Resident Evil Village (Wataru Hachisako, Yuji Higashiyama, Kenji Kojima & Yusuke Kinoshita)
Returnal (Jeremy Corbett, Toivo Kallio & Juuso Tolonen)
(Honourable Mentions: Age of Empires IV, The Artful Escape, Far Cry 6, Halo Infinite, It Takes Two)

Best Music

Deathloop (Tom Salta)
It Takes Two (Gustaf Grefberg & Kristofer Eng)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Richard Jacques)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Mark Mothersbaugh & Wataru Hokoyama)
Returnal (Bobby Krlic)
(Honourable Mentions: The Artful Escape - Johnny Galvatron & Josh Abrahams, Chicory: A Colorful Tale - Lena Raine, Far Cry 6 - Pedro Bromfman, Kena: Bridge of Spirits - Jason Gallaty, Psychonauts 2 - Peter McConnell, )

Best Mobile Game

Behind the Frame (Weichen Lin)
Fantasian (Takuto Nakamura)
League of Legends: Wild Rift (Andrei van Roon)
Pikmin Bloom (Tatsuo Nomura)
Pokémon Unite (Masaaki Hoshino)
(Honourable Mentions: Crash on the Run, Marvel Future Revolution, Moncage, Nier Re[in]carnation, Overboard!)

Best Fighting Game

Best Art Direction

The Artful Escape (Arden Beckwith, Johnny Galvatron, Mikey McCusker & Tessa Monash)
Deathloop (Sébastien Mitton)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Julian Vermuelen)
Psychonauts 2 (Lisette Titre-Montgomery)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Jason Hickey & Gavin Goulden)
(Honourable Mentions: Far Cry 6, It Takes Two, Psychonauts 2, Returnal, Subnautica: Below Zero)

Best Animation

Deathloop (Damien Pougheon)
It Takes Two (Oskar Thuresson, Leo Sköld Ringborg & Emil Claeson)
Kena: Bridge of Spirits (Hunter Schmidt)
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (Kevin Grow, Elliot Grossman, Danny Garnett & Steven Ryder)
Resident Evil Village (Tetsuhei Asano, Hiroko Ihara & Yuya Takasaki)
(Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Vanguard, Life is Strange: True Colors, Nier Replicant ver 1.22474487139, Psychonauts 2, Sable)

Best Story/Writing

Deathloop (Paweł Kroenke & Sandra Duval)
It Takes Two (Soni Jorgensen & Josef Fares)
Life is Strange: True Colors (Jonathan Zimmerman)
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (Mary DeMarle & Kasper Hartman)
Psychonauts 2 (Tim Schafer)
(Honourable Mentions: Before Your Eyes, The Forgotten City, Inscryption, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal)

Best Voice-Over Performance

Jack Black - Psychonauts 2 for voicing Helmut Fullbear
Giancarlo Esposito - Far Cry 6 for voicing Antón Castillo
Jennifer Hale - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart for voicing Rivet
Jason E. Kelley - Deathloop for voicing Colt Vahn
Erika Mori - Life is Strange: True Colors for voicing Alex Chen
Maggie Robertson - Resident Evil Village for voicing Lady Dimitrescu
(Honourable Mentions: Ozioma Akagha - Deathloop, Joseph Balderrama - It Takes Two, Willem Dafoe - Twelve Minutes, Elijah Wood - Psychonauts 2)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

Hitman 3 (Mattias Engström)
I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar (Charles Amis)
Lone Echo II (Ru Weerasuriya & Nathan Phal-Liff)
Resident Evil 4 VR (Mark Pacini)
Sniper Elite VR (Steven Archer)
(Honourable Mentions: Demeo, Jurassic World Aftermath, Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia, Song of the Smoke, Star Wars Pinball VR)

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