2022 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Elden Ring (Yuzo Kojima)
• God of War Ragnarök (Chad Cox)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Joel Eschler)
• Stray (Swann Martin Raget)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Koh Kojima, Genki Yokota & Katsuya Eguchi)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gran Turismo 7, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Marvel Snap, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Vampire Survivors)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• God of War Ragnarök (Eric Williams)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Mathijs de Jonge)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Kevin Choteau)
• Stray (Colas Koola & Vivien Mermet-Guyenet)
• Vampire Survivors (Luca Galante)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bayonetta 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Neon White, Sifu, Tunic)

Best Game Design

• Elden Ring (Junya Ishizaki, Yosuke Kayugawa & Ryu Matsumoto)
• God of War Ragnarök (Jason McDonald)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Floris Kooij & Håkan Persson)
• Marvel Snap (Ben Hayes)
• Vampire Survivors (Luca Galante)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb, MultiVersus, Splatoon 3, Stray, Tunic)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Dreamlight Valley (Nicholas Mainville)
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Shinya Kumazaki & Tatsuya Kamiyama)
• Splatoon 3 (Seita Inoue & Shintaro Saro)
• Stray (Colas Koola & Vivien Mermet-Guyenet)
• Tunic (Andrew Shouldice)
  (Honourable Mentions: Kirby's Dream Buffet, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Nintendo Switch Sports, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, Trombone Champ)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• F1 22 (Lee Mather & Paul Jeal)
• FIFA 23 (Garreth Reeder)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Kazunori Yamauchi)
• NBA 2K23 (Mike Wang)
• OlliOlli World (John Ribbins)
  (Honourable Mentions: Mario Strikers: Battle League, MLB '22: The Show, Need for Speed Unbound, Nintendo Switch Sports, Windjammers 2)

Best Technical Innovation

• Elden Ring (Takeshi Suzuki & Yuki Kido)
• God of War Ragnarök (Josh Hobson, Jonathan Burke & Stephen McAuley)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Michiel van der Leeuw, Stefan Lauwers & Remco Straatman)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Alain Guyet, Cyril Doillon & Nicolas Bécavin)
• Stray (Rémi Bismuth, Sores Hatipoglu & Antonin Ferret)
  (Honourable Mentions: Immortality, Moss: Book II, Red Matter 2, Splatoon 3, Tunic)

Best Multiplayer

• Elden Ring
• MultiVersus
• Overwatch 2
• Splatoon 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, FIFA 23, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Mario Strikers: Battle League, Tiny Tina's Wonderland)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Dreamlight Valley (Nicholas Mainville)
• Dune: Spice Wars (Sebastien Vidal & Nicolas Cannasse)
• Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (Davide Soliani)
• Not for Broadcast (Jason Orbaum & Alex Paterson)
• Two Point Campus (Gary Carr & Mark Webley)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dwarf Fortress, Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Ixiom, Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, Total War: Warhammer III)

Best Audio Design

• Elden Ring (Tsukasa Saitoh, Shoi Miyazawa & Tai Tomisawa)
• God of War Ragnarök (Phillip A. Kovats, Keiichi Kitahara, Jeremie Voillot, Jeremy Rogers & Michael Kent)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Daisuke Takeuchi, Takeshi Minagawa, Masao Kimura & Daiki Kasho)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Bastian Seelbach, Phillip A. Kovats, Anton Woldhek, Jacopo Niccolò Consonni & Lovisa Bergdahl)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Junya Kuroda, Hirotomi Imoto, Masataka Saito & Tomomi Saito)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Metal: Hellsinger, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Stray, Tunic)

Best Music

• Elden Ring (Yuka Kitamura)
• God of War Ragnarök (Bear McCreary)
• Metal: Hellsinger (Elvira Björkman & Nicklas Hjertberg)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Olivier Deriviere)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Yasunori Mitsuda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bayonetta 3 - Naofumi Harada, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Sarah Schachner, Horizon Forbidden West - Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest & Oleksa Lozowchuk, Moss: Book II - Jason Graves, Tunic - Terence Lee & Janice Kwan)

Best Mobile Game

• Apex Legends Mobile (Steven Ferreira)
• Diablo Immortal (Wyatt Cheng)
• Immortality (Sam Barlow)
• Marvel Snap (Julia Humphreys & Hamilton Chu)
• Tower of Fantasy (Mark Ren & Bo Wang)
  (Honourable Mentions: Desta: The Memories Between, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, Poinpy, Railbound, Wylde Flowers)

Best Fighting Game

• DNF Duel (Tatsuru Tazaki)
• The King of Fighters XV (Eisuke Ogura & Kaito Soranaka)
• MultiVersus (Tony Huynh)
• Sifu (Jordan Layani)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Jonathan Lavigne)
  (Honourable Mentions: Capcom Fighting Collection, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R, Rumbleverse, Spiderheck, WWE 2K23)

Best Art Direction

• Elden Ring (Hidenori Sato)
• God of War Ragnarök (Rafael Grassetti)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Jan-Bart van Meek & Misja Baas)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Olivier Ponsonnet)
• Stray (Ivan Jankovic, Marcus Dublin & Sanket Gupta)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, The Callisto Protocol, Pentiment, Scorn, Tunic)

Best Animation

• Elden Ring (Hideto Nonokawa)
• God of War Ragnarök (Bruno Velazquez, Erica Pinto, Medhi Yssef & James Sweeney)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Richard Oud, Paulus Bannink & Niek Neervens)
• Moss: Book II (Richard Lico, Jarrod Stowers & Lianne Cruz)
• Stray (Andrew Boetsma, Satyajit Pattanik & Jophray Mikojczyk)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, New Tales from the Borderlands, Sifu, Tunic)

Best Story/Writing

• Elden Ring (Hidetaka Miyazaki & George R.R. Martin)
  
• God of War Ragnarök (Matthew Sophos & Richard Zangrande Gaubert)
• Horizon Forbidden West (John Gonzalez & Benjamin McCaw)
• Immortality (Sam Barlow, Amelia Gray, Allan Scott & Barry Gifford)
• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Sébastien Renard)
  (Honourable Mentions: As Dusk Falls, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Norco, Pentiment, Return to Monkey Island, Stray)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Ashly Burch - Horizon Forbidden West for voicing Aloy
• Manon Gage - Immortality for voicing Marissa Marcel
• Christopher Judge - God of War Ragnarök for voicing Kratos
• Charlotte McBurney - A Plague Tale: Requiem for voicing Amicia
• Sunny Suljic - God of War Ragnarök for voicing Atreus
  (Honourable Mentions: Troy Baker - Metal: Hellsinger, Angela Bassett - Horizon Forbidden West, Adam Harrington - God of War Ragnarök, Justin Roiland - High on Life, Siobhan Williams - The Quarry)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Cosmonious High (Chelsea Howe)
• The Last Clockwinder (John Austin & Matt Blair)
• Moss: Book II (Peter Boldt & Argus Mulin)
• Red Matter 2 (Iñaki Hernandez & Norman Schaar)
• Tentacular (Simon Cubasch)
  (Honourable Mentions: After the Fall, Among Us VR, Bonelab, Lost Recipes, The Twilight Zone VR)