2025 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (François Meurisse)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Hideo Kojima, Yoshikazu Matsuhana & Kateryna Tarasova)
• Donkey Kong Bananza (Kenta Motokura)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Ari Gibson & William Pellen)
• Split Fiction (Aimar Bergan & Daniel Issa)
  (Honourable Mentions: Blue Prince, Dispatch, Ghost of Yōtei, Hades II, Mario Kart World)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Hideo Kojima)
• Doom: The Dark Ages (Hugo Martin)
• Ghost of Yōtei (Jason Connell & Nate Fox)
• Hades II (Fumihiko Yasuda)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Jack Vine)
  (Honourable Mentions: ARC Raiders, Battlefield 6, The Midnight Walk, Ninja Gaiden 4, Split Fiction)

Best Game Design

• Blue Prince (Tonda Ros)
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Guillaume Broche & Michel Nohra)
  
• Donkey Kong Bananza (Kazuya Takahashi)
• Hades II (Eduardo Gorinstein & James Auck)
• Split Fiction (Per Stenbeck)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Alters, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Ghost of Yōtei, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Donkey Kong Bananza (Wataru Tanaka & Kazuya Takahashi)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Ari Gibson & William Pellen)
• LEGO Party! (Mark Fennell)
• Mario Kart World (Kosuke Yabuki)
• Split Fiction (Josef Fares)
  (Honourable Mentions: Is This Seat Taken?, Lumines Arise, Once Upon a Katamari, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, Two Point Museum)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• Kirby Air Riders (Masahiro Sakurai)
• Mario Kart World (Kosuke Yabuki)
• NBA 2K26 (Mike Wang & Greg Thomas)
• Rematch (Pierre Tarno)
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (Masaru Kohayakawa & Shingo Kawakami)
  (Honourable Mentions: Drag x Drive, EA Sports FC 26, F1 25, MLB '25: The Show, Wheel World)

Best Technical Innovation

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Tom Guillermin)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Akio Sakamoto)
• Donkey Kong Bananza (Wataru Tanaka & Tatsuya Kurihara)
• Ghost of Yōtei (Adrian Bentley)
• Marvel's Deadpool VR (Frank Wilson, Gabe Farris & Naveen Nattam)
  (Honourable Mentions: ARC Raiders, Doom: The Dark Ages, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Peak, Split Fiction)

Best Multiplayer

• ARC Raiders
• Battlefield 6 (Mahesh Ramamurthy & Ekta Sinha)
• Elden Ring Nightreign
• Mario Kart World
• Split Fiction
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Dune: Awakening, LEGO Party, Peak, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• The Alters (Tomasz Kisilewicz)
• Civilization VII (Ed Beach & Dennis Shirk)
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles (Yasumi Matsuno)
• Jurassic World Evolution 3 (Andrew Fletcher)
• Two Point Museum (Ben Huskins)
  (Honourable Mentions: Anno 117: Pax Romana, Consume Me, Europa Universalis V, StarVaders, Tempest Rising)

Best Audio Design

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Raphaël Joffres, Maxance Playez & Olivier Penchenier)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Hiroyuki Nakayama, Noburo Masuda, Emile Mika & Stephen Schappler)
• Ghost of Yōtei (Brad Meyer, Josh Lord & Adam Lidbetter)
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Scott Peterson, Robert Arlauskas, Clark Wen & Joey Kuras)
• Silent Hill f (Akihiro Teruta, Eri Arakawa, Manami Odate & Daun Lim)
  (Honourable Mentions: ARC Raiders, Battlefield 6, Doom: The Dark Ages, Hades II, Split Fiction)

Best Music

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Lorien Testard)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Ludvig Forssell & Woodkid)
• Ghost of Yōtei (Tomo Otawa)
• Hollow Knight: Silksong (Christopher Larkin)
• Sword of the Sea (Austin Wintory)
  (Honourable Mentions: Blue Prince, Hades II, Mario Kart World, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, South of Midnight)

Best Mobile Game

• Destiny: Rising (Terry Redfield)
• Is This Seat Taken? (Sergi Pérez Crespo & Ausiàs Dalmau Roig)
• Persona 5: The Phantom X (Yusuke Nitta, Zhen Wang & Yuta Sakai)
• Sonic Rumble Party (Makoto Tase)
• Umamusume: Pretty Derby (Koichi Watanabe)
  (Honourable Mentions: Chaos Zero Nightmare, Skate City: New York, Spooky Express, What the Clash?, Where Winds Meet)

Best Fighting Game

• 2XKO (Shaun Rivera)
• Capcom Fighting Collection 2 (Shuhei Matsumoto)
• Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves (Hayato Konya)
• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (Koki Aoyanagi)
• Mortal Kombat: The Legacy Kollection (Mike Mika)
  (Honourable Mentions: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu No Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2, Marvel Cosmic Invasion, Virtual Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. World Stage, WWE 2K25)

Best Art Direction

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Nicholas Maxson-Francombe)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Yoji Shinkawa)
• Ghost of Yōtei (Joanna Wang)
• Hades II (Jen Zee)
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Jhony Ljungstedt)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hades II, The Midnight Walk, The Outer Worlds 2, South of Midnight, Sword of the Sea)

Best Animation

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Tristan Fleury, Lucie Hennet & Julien De Valeriola)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Masaaki Kawata)
• Ghost of Yōtei (Billy Harper, Jordan Pitchon & Kento Kojima)
• Hades II (Craig Harris)
• South of Midnight (Michael Jungbluth, Sebastien Dussault & Vincent Schneider)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed: Shadows, Dispatch, Donkey Kong Bananza, Monster Hunter Wilds, Silent Hill f)

Best Story/Writing

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Jennifer Svedberg-Yen, Guillaume Broche & Victor Deleard)
• Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Hideo Kojima, Kenji Yano, Shuyo Murata & Kota Watanabe)
• Dispatch (Pierre Shorette, Suzee Matson, Ashley Jeffalone, Chad Rhiness & Chris Rebbert)
• Lost Records: Blood & Rage (Desiree Cifre, Nina Freeman & Jean-Luc Cano)
• Split Fiction (Sebastian Antonios Johansson & Josef Fares)
  (Honourable Mentions: Blue Prince, Ghost of Yōtei, Hades II, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Marvel's Deadpool VR)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Troy Baker - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Charlie Cox - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Jennifer English - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Aaron Paul - Dispatch
• Ben Starr - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
  (Honourable Mentions: Laura Bailey - Dispatch, Erika Ishii - Ghost of Yōtei, Alex Jordan - The Alters, Norman Reedus - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Jeffrey Wright - Dispatch)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Arken Age (Blake Stone)
• Ghost Town (Mark Hamilton & Rob Dodd)
• Lumines Arise (Takashi Ishihara)
• Marvel's Deadpool VR (Dan Bullock)
• The Midnight Walk (Klaus Lyngeled & Olov Redmalm)
  (Honourable Mentions: Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked, Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playlist, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow)

2024 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Feng Ji)
• Final Fantasy VII Remake (Yoshinori Kitase)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Junichi Yoshizawa)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Well, Helldivers II, Indiana Jones and the Lost Circle, Thank Goodness You're Here!, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Feng Ji)
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Satoshi Terada & Tomomi Sano)
• Stellar Blade (Kim Hyung-tae)
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 (Dmitry Grigorenko & Oliver Hollis-Leick)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham Shadow, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Helldivers II, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Star Wars Outlaws)

Best Game Design

• Animal Well (Billy Basso)
• Astro Bot (Gento Morita)
• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Jiang Baicun)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Yasuhiro Akimoto)
  (Honourable Mentions: Helldivers II, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, UFO 50, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Astro Bot (Nicolas Doucet)
• Little Kitty, Big City (Matt T. Wood)
• The Plucky Squire (James Turner & Jonathan Biddle)
• Princess Peach: Showtime! (Etsunobu Ebisu)
  
• Super Mario Party Jamboree (Takeru Sugimoto)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Well, Cat Quest III, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, Planet Coaster 2, Sonic X Shadow Generations)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• EA Sports FC 25 (John Shepherd)
• F1 24 (Lee Mather)
• MLB '24: The Show (Chris Cutliff)
• NBA 2K25 (Mike Wang & Erick Boenisch)
• WWE 2K24 (Lynell Jinks & Gregory A. Thomas)
  (Honourable Mentions: EXOcars, MotoGP 24, MudRunner VR, Night-Runners Prologue, TopSpin 2K25)

Best Technical Innovation

• Astro Bot (Masayuki Yamada & Takumi Yoshida)
• Batman: Arkham Shadow (Colin Doody & Troy Johnsen)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Zhao Wenyong)
• Indiana Jones and the Lost Circle (Jim Kjellin, Magnus Auvinen & Patrik Wilbo)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Gavin Costello, Loong Wei Ding & Andrew Vidler)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Well, Balatro, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Helldivers II, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
• Helldivers II
• Super Mario Party Jamboree
• Tekken 8
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
  (Honourable Mentions: Abiotic Factor, EA Sports FC 25, LEGO Horizon Adventures, Star Wars: Hunters, UFO 50)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Age of Mythology: Retold (Adam Isgreen & Michael Mann)
• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Frostpunk 2 (Jakub Stokalski & Łukasz Juszczyk)
• Manor Lords (Grzegorz Styczeń)
• Tactical Breach Wizards (Tom Francis)
  (Honourable Mentions: Caves of Qud, Expeditions: A MudRunner Game, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Unicorn Warlord)

Best Audio Design

• Astro Bot (Junko Sano & Yuji Uchiyama)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Collin Ayers, Scott Eckert, James McCawley & Brian Tuey)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Shingo Inoue, Shoi Tokunaga, Hikaru Taniyama & Makoto Ise)
• Senua's Sacrifice: Hellblade II (David García Díaz, Daniele Galante, Jamie Molloy & Jordan Payne)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Romain Brillaud, Simon Koudriavtsev, Jacob Coles & Antoine Rozan)
  (Honourable Mentions: Black Myth: Wukong, Frostpunk 2, Helldivers II, Silent Hill 2, Still Wakes the Deep)

Best Music

• Astro Bot (Kenneth C M Young)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Masashi Hamauzu & Mitsuto Suzuki)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Shoji Meguro)
• Star Wars Outlaws (Wilbert Roget II, Jon Everist & Kazuma Jinnouchi)
• Stellar Blade (Hwang Joo-eun, Oliver Good & Keita Inoue)
  (Honourable Mentions: Balatro - Luis Clemente, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Jack Wall, Dragon Age: The Veilguard - Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - Gordy Haab, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Mentrix & Gareth Coker)

Best Mobile Game

• Balatro (LocalThunk)
• Monument Valley 3 (Jennifer Estaris)
• Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket (Ai Takeuchi & Tetsuya Iguchi)
• Wuthering Waves (Solon Lee)
• Zenless Zone Zero (Li Zhenyu)
  (Honourable Mentions: AFK Journey, Ex Astris, Halls of Torment, Paper Trail, Rabbids: Legends of the Multiverse)

Best Fighting Game

• Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero (Tairi Kikuchi)
• Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Tetsuya Fukuhara)
• Tekken 8 (Katsuhiro Harad, Kohei Ikeda & Yasuki Nakabayashi)
• Underdogs (Dave Levy & Assaf Ronen)
• WWE 2K24 (Lynell Jinks & Gregory A. Thomas)
  (Honourable Mentions: Blazing Strike, Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns)

Best Art Direction

• Astro Bot (Sebastian Brueckner)
• Black Myth: Wukong (Yang Qi)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Kazuma Koda)
• Neva (Conrad Roset)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Dan Attwell)
  (Honourable Mentions: Harold Halibut, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, LEGO Horizon Adventures, The Plucky Squire, Star Wars Outlaws)

Best Animation

• Astro Bot (Jamie Smith & Kohei Kawa)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Yoshiyuki Soma, Akira Iwasawa & Ryo Hara)
• Neva (Adrián Miguel, Ian García & Arnau Martín)
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Jacques Exertier & Bruce Nguyen Van Lan)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Guy Midgley, Kirill Spiridonov, Felix Ilsley & Gregorio Malara)
  (Honourable Mentions: Black Myth: Wukong, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, The Plucky Squire, Stellar Blade, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2)

Best Story/Writing

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Kazushige Nojima)
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Kazunobu Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Furuta & Masayoshi Yokoyama)
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (Yuichiro Tanaka & Katsura Hashino)
• Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (Lara Derham & Tameem Antoniades)
• Thank Goodness You're Here (James Carbutt & Will Todd)
  (Honourable Mentions: 1000xResist, Black Myth: Wukong, Life is Strange: Double Exposure, Silent Hill 2, Still Wakes the Deep)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Troy Baker - Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for voicing Indiana Jones
• Humberly Gonzalez - Star Wars Outlaws for voicing Kay Vess
• Melina Juergens - Senua's Saga: Hellblade II for voicing Senua
• Hannah Telle - Life is Strange: Double Exposure for voicing Max Caulfield
• Briana White - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for voicing Aerith Gainsborough
  (Honourable Mentions: Matt Berry - Thank Goodness You're Here, Cody Christian - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Kazuhro Nakaya - Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Luke Roberts - Silent Hill 2, Roger Craig Smith - Batman: Arkham Shadow)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Alien: Rogue Incursion (TQ Jefferson & Eugene Elkin)
• Batman: Arkham Shadow (Ryan Payton)
• Metro Awakening (Martin de Ronde & Samar Louwe)
• Skydance's Behemoth (Brian Murphy & Shawn Kittelsen)
• Underdogs (Dave Levy & Assaf Ronen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Escaping Wonderland, Metal: Hellsinger VR, Shattered, Starship Home, Tomb Explorer VR)

2023 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Alan Wake 2 (Will Graham)
• Baldur's Gate 3 (David Walgrave)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Eiji Aonuma)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Joe Castagno & Ara Demirjian)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Takeshi Tezuka)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cocoon, Dave the Diver, Hogwarts Legacy, Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Alan Wake 2 (Sam Lake & Kyle Rowley)
• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Masaru Yamamura)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Ryan Smith, Marcus Smith & Bryan Intihar)
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Stig Asmussen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cocoon, Dave the Diver, Dead Island 2, Hi-Fi Rush, Resident Evil 4)

Best Game Design

• Baldur's Gate 3 (Nick Pechenin, Edouard Imbert & Fahrang Namdar)
• Dave the Diver (Chanhee Woo)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Yohei Fujino, Yasutaka Takeuchi & Mari Shirakawa)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Mark C. Stuart, Drew Murray, Marcus Luna De Leon & Joel Goodsell)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Koichi Hayashida, Terumasa Kato & Shigefumi Hino)
  (Honourable Mentions: Aliens: Dark Descent, Cocoon Hi-Fi Rush, Hogwarts Legacy, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Disney Illusion Island (Aj Grand-Scrutton)
• Hogwarts Legacy (Alan Tew)
• Pikmin 4 (Yuji Kando & Tetsushi Tsunoda)
• Sonic Superstars (Shunsuke Kawarazuka)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Shiro Mouri)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bluey: The Videogame, Cocoon, Dave the Diver, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Party Animals)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• EA Sports FC 24 (John Shepherd)
• Forza Motorsport (Chris Esaki & Andy Beaudoin)
• F-Zero 99 (Chris Polney)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed 2: Turgocharged (Michele Caletti & Domenico Celenza)
• MLB '23: The Show (Chris Gill & Jason Villa)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Crew Motorfest, Disney Speedstorm, F1 23, LEGO 2K Drive, NBA 2K24) 

Best Technical Innovation

• Alan Wake 2 (Antti Kerminen)
• Hogwarts Legacy (Rob Nelson, Jose Villeta & Jeffrey Gosztyla)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Takahiro Okuda, Yuichiro Okamura, Katsuhisa Sato & Shigetoshi Kitayama)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Jesse Warner, Douglas Sheahan & Austin Morris & Paul Hiley)
• Starfield (Christopher Rodriguez)
  (Honourable Mentions: Baldur's Gate 3, Final Fantasy XVI, The Finals, Hi-Fi Rush, Horizon Call of the Mountain)

Best Multiplayer

• Baldur's Gate 3
• Forza Motorsport
• Party Animals
• Street Fighter 6
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Diablo IV, EA Sports FC 24, LEGO 2K Drive, Mortal Kombat 1)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Advanced Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp (James Montagna)
• Cities: Skylines II (Hans Zenjuga)
• Dave the Diver (Jaeho Hwang)
• Fire Emblem Engage (Tsutomu Tei & Kenta Nakanishi)
• Pikmin 4 (Tetsushi Tsunoda & Yuji Kando)
  (Honourable Mentions: Against the Storm, Aliens: Dark Descent, Cobalt Core, Company Heroes 3, The Last Spell) 

Best Audio Design

• Alan Wake 2 (Richard Lapington & Niko Henttonen)
• Hi-Fi Rush (Suichi Kobori & Makoto Yamaguchi)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Phillip A. Kovats, Jeremie Voillot, Paul S. Mudra & Dwight Okahara)
• Resident Evil 4 (Hiroshi Tomura, Kenji Kojima, Takahiro Kitagawa & Setsuo Yamamoto)
• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (Nick Von Kaenel, Alex Barnhart & Oscar Coen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cocoon, Dead Space, Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Starfield)

Best Music

• Alan Wake 2 (Petri Alanko)
• Baldur's Gate 3 (Borislav Slavov)
• Final Fantasy XVI (Masayoshi Soken)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Manaka Kataoka, Tsukasa Usui, Maasa Miyoshi & Masato Ohashi)
  
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III - Walter Mair & Jack Wall, Hi-Fi Rush - Shuichi Kobori, Reo Uratani & Masatoshi Yanagi, Planet of Lana - Takeshi Furukawa, Starfield - Inon Zur, Tchia - John Robert Matz)

Best Mobile Game

• Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis (Motomu Toriyama & Tetsuya Nomura)
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Tom Blind & Logan Beru)
  
• Honkai: Star Rail (Cai Haoyu & David Jiang)
• Monster Hunter Now (Tatsuo Nomura)
• Terra Nil (Sam Alfred, Jonathan Hau-Yoon & Jarred Lunt)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gubbins, Kimono Cats, Laya's Horizon, What the Car?)

Best Fighting Game

• God of Rock (Christina Seelye)
• Mortal Kombat 1 (Ed Boon)
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (Diego Rodríguez & Sergio Chacón)
• Pocket Bravery (Anderson Halfeld)
• Street Fighter 6 (Takayuki Nakayama)
  (Honourable Mentions: AEW: Fight Forever, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, WWE 2K23)

Best Art Direction

• Alan Wake 2 (Janne Pulkkinen)
• Hi-Fi Rush (Keita Sakai)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Satoru Takizawa)
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Chris Sutton & Nate Stephens)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Masanobu Sato)
  (Honourable Mentions: Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, Lies of P, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Starfield)

Best Animation

• Final Fantasy XVI (Ryouhei Sakai, Takaharu Aono & Hirotaka Sawada)
• Hi-Fi Rush (Koichi Hatakeyama)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Robert Coddington, Danny Garnett, Brian Wyser & Michael Yosh)
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (Nathan Dunlap, James Cockerham, Chris Perkowitz-Colvard & Trung Doan)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Tatsuya Sakai & Takahiro Nishigaki)
  (Honourable Mentions: Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Party Animals, Street Fighter 6)

Best Story/Writing

• Alan Wake 2 (Sam Lake, Clay Murphy & Tyler Burton Smith)
• Baldur's Gate 3 (Adam Smith)
• Final Fantasy XVI (Kazutoyo Maehiro)
• Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Jon Paquette, Benjamin Arfmann & Walt Williams)
• Starfield (Emil Pagliarulo)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Dave the Diver, Hogwarts Legacy, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Idris Elba - Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty for voicing Solomon Reed
• Yuri Lowenthal - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for voicing Peter Parker/Spider-Man
• Cameron Monaghan - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for voicing Cal Kestis
• Neil Newbon - Baldur's Gate 3 for voicing Astarion
• Patricia Summersett - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for voicing Princess Zelda
  (Honourable Mentions: Ralph Ineson - Final Fantasy XVI, Nadji Jeter - Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Melanie Liburd - Alan Wake 2, Ben Starr - Final Fantasy XVI, Debra Wilson - Star Wars Jedi: Survivor)

Best Virtual/Augmented Reality Game

• Asgard's Wrath 2 (Bill Spence & Mat Kraemer)
• Assassin's Creed Nexus VR (Mark Russell)
• Horizon Call of the Mountain (Jan-Bart van Beek & Alex Barnes)
• Humanity (Yugo Nakamura)
• Vertigo 2 (Zach Tsiakalis-Brown)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gran Turismo 7 VR, Per Aspera VR, Resident Evil Village VR, Synapse, Vampire: The Masquerade)

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)

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

• Guilty Gear Strive (Akira Katano)
• Melty Blood: Type Lumina (Kamone Serizawa)
• Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Diego Rodríguez & Sergio Chacón)
• Pokémon Unite (Masaaki Hoshino)
• Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (Yoshihiro Tsuzuko)

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)

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)

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

• Dead or Alive 6 (Yohei Shimbori)
• Jump Force (Toyokazu Sakamoto)
  
• Mortal Kombat 11 (Ed Boon)
• River City Girls (Adam Tierney & Bannon Rudis)
• Samurai Shodown (Nobuyuki Kuroki)
  

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)

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)

2017 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year [TIE]

• Cuphead (Ryan Moldenhauer & Marija Moldenhauer)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Lambert Wolterbeek-Muller)
  
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto & Shinya Takahashi)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Kim Chang-han)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Koichi Hayashida & Yoshiaki Koizumi)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Nier: Automata, Persona 5, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, What Remains of Edith Finch)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Destiny 2 (Christopher Barrett & Luke Smith)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Mathijs de Jonge)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Kenta Motokura)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jens Matthies)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Origins, Cuphead, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Game Design

• Cuphead (Jared Moldenhauer)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Troy Mashburn, David Ford, Lauren Simonis & Floris Kooij)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Kentaro Tominaga, Hiroaki Tamura & Yohei Fujino)
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (Brendan Greene) 
• Super Mario Odyssey (Futoshi Shirai & Shinya Hiratake)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Origins, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Nier: Automata, Persona 5, Sonic Mania)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Cuphead (Chad & Jared Moldenhauer)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Kosuke Yabuki)
• Sonic Mania (Christian Whitehead)
• Splatoon 2 (Yusuke Amano, Seita Inoue & Shintaro Saro)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Kenta Motokura)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gnog, A Hat in Time, Just Dance 2018, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Snipperclips)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 18 (Mathew Prior)
• Forza Motorsport 7 (William Giese & Dan Greenawalt)
• Gran Turismo Sport (Kazunori Yamauchi)
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Kosuke Yabuki)
• NBA 2K18 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
  (Honourable Mentions: Everybody's Golf, Golf Clash, Madden NFL 18, MLB '17: The Show, Project Cars 2)

Best Technical Innovation

• Horizon Zero Dawn (Michiel van der Leeuw)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Takuhiro Dohta, Kenji Matsutani & Hiroshi Umemiya)
• Nier: Automata (Ryo Onishi)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Norihiro Aoyagi & Wataru Tanaka)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jim Kjellin)
  (Honourable Mentions: Destiny 2, Lone Echo, Persona 5, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard)

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: WWII
• Destiny 2
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
• Splatoon 2

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Gran Turismo Sport (Kazunori Yamauchi)
• Halo Wars (Alistair Hope)
• Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle (Davide Soliani)
  
• Total War: Warhammer II (Ian Roxburgh)
• XCOM: War of the Chosen (Jacob Solomon)
  (Honourable Mentions: Car Mechanic Simulation 2018, Endless Space 2, Fire Emblem Heroes, No More Heroes VR!, Tooth and Tail)

Best Audio Design

• Destiny 2 (C Paul Johnson, Evan Buehler, David Henry & Jay Weinland)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Hajime Wakai, Yohei Miyagawa, Mitsuhiro Hikino & Ryu Tamura)
• Nier: Automata (Misaki Shindo, Yuji Honda & Shuji Kohata)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Wataru Hachisako, Kenji Kojima & Yusuke Kinoshita)
• Super Mario Odyssey (Mahito Yokota, Wataru Tanimura & Yuki Tsuji)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed: Origins, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Lone Echo, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Music

• Cuphead (Kristofer Maddigan)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest & Jonathan Williams)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Manaka Kataoka & Yasuaki Iwata)
  
• Super Mario Odyssey (Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii & Koji Kondo)
• Wolfenstein: The New Colossus (Mick Gordon & Martin Stig Andersen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Origins - Sarah Schachner, Destiny 2 - Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin & C Paul Johnson, Nier: Automata (Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi & Kuniyuki Takahashi, Persona 5 - Shoji Meguro, What Remains of Edith Finch - Jeff Russo)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (Kazuyoshi Sensui)
• Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Akihiro Hino) 
• Ever Oasis (Koichi Ishii)
• Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Toshiyuki Kusakihara, Kenta Nakanishi & Genki Yokota)
• Metroid: Samus Returns (Takehiko Hosokawa)
  (Honourable Mentions: Fire Emblem Heroes, Golf Story, Gorogoa, Monster Hunter Stories, Monument Valley 2)

Best Fighting Game

• ARMS (Kenta Saro, Masaaki Ishikawa & Shintaro Jikumaru)
• Injustice 2 (Ed Boon)
• Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (Norio Hirose)
• Nidhogg 2 (Mark Essen)
• Tekken 7 (Katsuhiro Harada, Yuichi Yonemori & Kouhei Ikeda)

Best Art Direction

• Assassin's Creed Origins (Raphaël Lacoste)
• Cuphead (Marija Moldenhauer)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Dan Attwell)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Satoru Takizawa)
• Persona 5 (Masayoshi Suto)
  (Honourable Mentions: Destiny 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Night in the Woods, Super Mario Odyssey, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Animation

• Cuphead (Chad Moldenhauer, Hannah Abi-Hanna, Jake Clark & Tina Nawrocki)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Chris Goodall, Jitaik Lim & Kirill Spiridonov)
• Horizon Zero Dawn (Richard Oud, Kevin Quaid, Niek Neervens & Peer Lemmers)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Masato Miyazaki, Yuki Yanagimoto, Keiichi Sato & Kohei Okumura)
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Almudena Soria Sancho, Eric Baldwin, Kion Phillips & Troy Slough)
  (Honourable Mentions: For Honor, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Persona 5, Splatoon 2)

Best Story/Writing

• Horizon Zero Dawn (John Gonzalez & Benjamin McCaw)
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Akihito Toda & Naoki Mori)
• Night in the Woods (Bethany Hockenberry & Scott Benson)
• What Remains of Edith Finch (Ian Dallas)
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Jens Matthies & Tommy Tordsson Björk)
  (Honourable Mentions: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Nier: Automata, Persona 5, Tacoma, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Laura Bailey - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Claudia Black - Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Brian Bloom - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
• Ashly Burch - Horizon Zero Dawn
• Melina Juergens - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
  (Honourable Mentions: Nathan Fillion - Destiny 2, Valerie Rose Lohman - What Remains of Edith, Katie O'Hagan - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Scott Porter - Guardians of the Galaxy, Abubakar Salim - Assassin's Creed Origins)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• Lone Echo (Ru Weerasuriya & Dana Jan)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Koshi Nakanishi)
• Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality (Alex Schwartz & Liz Pate)
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Brian Tate)
• SUPERHOT VR (Piotr Iwanicki)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR, Fallout 4 VR, Farpoint, Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin, Robo Recall)

2016 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Inside (Mads Wibroe & Forest Swartout Large)
• The Last Guardian (Kazunobu Sato & Fumito Ueda)
• Overwatch (Carlos Guerrero & Lee Sparks)
• Pokémon Go (Tatsuo Nomura & Steve Wang)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Evan Wells & Christophe Balestra)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dark Souls III, Dishonored 2, Firewatch, Stardew Valley, Titanfall 2)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Firewatch (Sean Vanaman & Olly Moss)
• The Last Guardian (Fumito Ueda)
• Overwatch (Jeffrey Kaplan & Chris Metzen)
• Titanfall 2 (Steve Fukuda)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Bruce Straley & Neil Druckmann)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 1, Doom, Gears of War 4, Inside, Ratchet & Clank)

Best Game Design

• Dishonored 2 (Christophe Carrier)
• Inside (Jeppe Carlsen)
• The Last Guardian (Masanobu Tanaka, Suchol Lee & Satoru Yamabe)
• Overwatch (Jeremy Craig, Michael Elliott & Scott Mercer)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Kurt Margenau, Emilia Schatz & Anthony Newman)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 1, Dark Souls III, Forza Horizon 3, I Expect You to Die, Titanfall 2)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Dragon Quest Builders (Kazuya Niinou)
• LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Jamie Eden, Peter Gomer & Rob Hewson)
• Overcooked (Kevin Carthew)
• Pokémon Go (Tatsuo Nomura)
• Ratchet & Clank (Brian Allgeier)
  (Honourable Mentions: Owlboy, Pokémon Sun and Moon, Rock Band Rivals, Skylanders: Imaginators, Super Mario Run)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 17 (Scott Murray & Greg Palstra)
• Forza Horizon 3 (Ralph Fulton)
• MLB '16: The Show (Chris Gill, Jody Kelsey & Jason Villa)
• NBA 2K17 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 (Manorito Hosoda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dirt Rally, Driveclub VR, Madden NFL 17, NHL 17, Steep)

Best Technical Innovation

• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (David Gallardo, Daniel Letendre & Sébastien Michel)
• No Man's Sky (Charles Tongora, Daniel Armesto Gutiérrez, Innes McKendrick & Stewart Lynch)
• Overwatch (Mike Elliott)
• Pokémon Go (Robert Giusti & Niniane Wang)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Christian Gyrling, Vincent Marxen, Travis McIntosh & Jason Gregory)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham VR, Firewatch, Inside, That Dragon, Cancer, Titanfall 2)

Best Multiplayer

• Battlefield 1 (Andreas Morell)
• Forza Horizon 3
• Gears of War 4 (Ryan Cleven & Otto Ingi Ottosson)
• Overwatch
• Titanfall 2 (Todd Alderman & Steve Hartland)

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• The Banner Saga 2 (Lance James)
• Civilization VI (Sid Meier & Dennis Shirk)
• Fire Emblem Fates (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
• Stardew Valley (Eric Barone)
• XCOM 2 (Jacob Solomon)
  (Honourable Mentions: Deus Ex Go, Overcooked, Planet Coaster, Starbound, Total War: Warhammer)

Best Audio Design

• Battlefield 1 (Bence Pajor, Andreas Almström, Steve Bigras & Mari Saastamoinen-Minto)
• The Last Guardian (Hirokazu Matsushita, Keiichi Kitahara & Tsubasa Ito)
• Overwatch (Russell Brower, Paul Lackey, Chris De La Pena & Scott Lawlor)
• Titanfall 2 (Erik Kraber, Rick Hernandez, Steve Johnson & Tyler Parsons)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Phillip A. Kovats, Shannon Potter, Neil Uchitel & Robert Krekel)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dishonored 2, Doom, Inside, Quantum Break, Tom Clancy's The Division)

Best Music

• Abzû (Austin Wintory)
• Doom (Mick Gordon)
• Inside (Martin Stig Andersen & Søs Gunver Ryberg)
• The Last Guardian (Takeshi Furukawa)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Henry Jackman)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dishonored 2, Overwatch, Ratchet & Clank, Titanfall 2, Virginia)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Dragon Quest Builders (Kazuya Niinou)
• Fire Emblem Fates (Kouhei Maeda & Genki Yokota)
• Kirby: Planet Robobot (Shinya Kumazaki)
• Pokémon Go (Tatsuo Nomura)
• Pokémon Sun/Moon (Shigeru Ohmori)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Banner Saga 2, Clash Royale, Monster Hunter Generations, Reigns, Severed)

Best Fighting Game

• The King of Fighters XIV (Yasuyuki Oda)
• Pokkén Tournament (Haruki Suzaki)
• Street Fighter V (Takayuki Nakayama)

Best Art Direction

• Abzû (Matt Nava)
• Final Fantasy XV (Tomohiro Hasegawa, Yusuke Naora & Isamu Kamikokuryo)
• Firewatch (Jane Ng & Olly Moss)
• Inside (Jeremy C. Petreman & Marek Bogdan)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Erick Pangilinan & Robh Ruppel)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 1, Forza Horizon 3, The Last Guardian, Overwatch, Titanfall 2)

Best Animation

• Inside (Andreas Normand Grøntved)
• The Last Guardian (Masanobu Tanaka, Tan Se Ri, Keita Usami & Naofumi Ito)
• Overwatch (Ryan Denniston, Michael Biancalana, David Gibson & Adam York)
• Street Fighter V (Hiroyuki Nara, Yuichiro Hiraki & Akihiko Nasu)
  
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Jeremy Yates, Michael Yosh, Eric Baldwin & Shaun Escayg)
  (Honourable Mentions: Abzû, Dishonored 2, Doom, Far Cry Primal, Gears of War 4)

Best Story/Writing

• Firewatch (Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, Olly Moss & Sean Vanaman)
• Inside (Arnt Jensen)
• The Last Guardian (Fumito Ueda, Masami Tanji & Yuta Kimura)
• Oxenfree (Adam Hines)
• Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Neil Druckmann & Josh Scherr)
  (Honourable Mentions: 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, Dishonored 2, Mafia III, Quantum Break, That Dragon, Cancer)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Troy Baker - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for voicing Sam Drake
• Nolan North - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for voicing Nathan Drake
• Emily Rose - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End for voicing Elena Fisher
• Rich Sommer - Firewatch for voicing Henry
• Cara Theobald - Overwatch for voicing Tracer
  (Honourable Mentions: Shawn Ashmore - Quantum Break, Alex Hernandez - Mafia III, Cissy Jones - Firewatch, Erica Luttrell - Dishonored 2, James Arnold Taylor - Ratchet & Clank)

2015 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Bloodborne (Kentaro Motomura, Masaaki Yamagiwa & Teruyuki Toriyama)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima & Kenichiro Imaizumi)
• Splatoon (Hisashi Nogami)
• Super Mario Maker (Takeshi Tezuka & Hiroyuki Kimura)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Krzywonosiuk & Jędrzej Mróz)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Her Story, Life is Strange, Undertale)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Batman: Arkham Knight (Sefton Hill)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
• Ori and the Blind Forest (Thomas Mahler)
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (Noah Hughes, Brian Horton & Daniel Neuberger)
• Star Wars: Battlefront (Robert Wasser)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Bloodborne, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Just Cause 3, Splatoon)

Best Game Design

• Bloodborne (Kazuhiro Hamatani)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hideo Kojima)
• Rocket League (Corey Davis)
• Splatoon (Seita Inoue & Keisuke Nishimori)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, Adam Wrotek & Lukasz Maj)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Fallout 4, Lara Croft Go, Super Mario Maker, Undertale)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Disney Infinity 3.0 (John Vignocchi & Mathew Solie)
• LEGO Dimensions (Jon Burton & James McLoughlin)
• Splatoon (Yusuke Amano & Tsubasa Sakaguchi)
• Super Mario Maker (Yosuke Oshino & Yoshikazu Yamashita)
• Yoshi's Woolly World (Atsushi Kono)
  (Honourable Mentions: FIFA 16, Guitar Hero Live, Rock Band 4, Skylanders: SuperChargers, Tearaway Unfolded)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• FIFA 16 (Scott Murray & Greg Palstra)
• Forza Motorsport 6 (William Giese & Dan Greenawalt)
• NBA 2K16 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Mike Wang)
• Need for Speed (Craig Sullivan)
• Rocket League (Thomas Silloway)
  (Honourable Mentions: Dirt Rally, Madden NFL 16, MLB '15: The Show, Pro Evolution Soccer 2016, Project Cars)

Best Technical Innovation

• Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Life is Strange (Julien Fryer, Sam Hocevar, Stéphane Hubart & Alexis Holstein)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Daizaburo Nakamura & Makoto Sonoyama)
• Splatoon (Shintaro Sato)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Tomsiński, Michał Słapa, Marcin Gollent & Łukasz Mrozowski-Zięba)
  (Honourable Mentions: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Just Cause 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront, Until Dawn)

Best Multiplayer

• Call of Duty: Black Ops III
  
• Destiny: The Taken King
• Halo 5: Guardians (Kevin Franklin)
• Rocket League
• Splatoon

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Cities: Skylines (Mariina Hallikainen)
• Fallout Shelter (Craig Lafferty)
• Heroes of the Storm (Dustin Browder & Alan Dabiri)
• Kerbal Space Program (Ezequiel Ayarza & Adrian Goya)
• StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (Dustin Browder)
  (Honourable Mentions: Grey Goo, Invisible, Inc., Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Pillars of Eternity, Prison Architect)

Best Audio Design

• Batman: Arkham Knight (Nick Arundel, Lee Banyard, Andrew Riley & Bryan O. Watkins)
• Fallout 4 (Mark Lampert, Dave Schreiber & James Tanenbaum)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Makoto Yamakawa & Hiroyuki Nakayama)
• Star Wars: Battlefront (Ben Minto, Philip Eriksson, Gustav Rathsman & Martin Wöhmer)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Piotr Malinowski, Hanna Obradovic, Paweł Daudzward & Krzysztof Lipka)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rise of the Tomb Raider)

Best Music

• Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Austin Wintory)
• Batman: Arkham Knight (Nick Arundel & David Buckley)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Ludvig Forssell, Justin Burnett & Daniel James)
• Ori and the Blind Forest (Gareth Coker)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Przybyłowicz & Mikołaj Stroiński)
  (Honourable Mentions: Crypt of the NecroDancer - Danny Baranowsky, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - Jessica Curry, Fallout 4 - Inon Zur, The Order: 1886 - Jason Graves, Undertale - Toby Tox)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Fallout Shelter (Todd Howard & Craig Lafferty)
• Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Lara Croft Go (Daniel Lutz)
• Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Kaname Fujioka)
• Pac-Man 256 (Andrew Sum & Matthew Hall)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alphabear, Downwell, Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, The Room Three, Yo-Kai Watch)

Best Fighting Game

• Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (Yohei Shimbori & Tom Lee)
  
• Mortal Kombat X (Ed Boon)
• Rising Thunder (Tom Cannon & Tony Cannon)

Best Art Direction

• Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Thierry Dansereau)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yoji Shinkawa)
• Ori and the Blind Forest (Johannes Figlhuber)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marian Chomiak)
• Yoshi's Woolly World (Ayano Otsuka)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman: Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, The Order: 1886, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront)

Best Animation

• Batman: Arkham Knight (Zafer Coban, Max Fanning, David Houston & Adam Vincent)
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Yusuke Nishida, Masaaki Kawata, Masakazu Kato & Keiichiro Emura)
• Ori and the Blind Forest (James Nicholas Benson)
• Rise of the Tomb Raider (Brandon Fernandez, Jeff Wilcox, Tracy Jasperson & Benjamin Stanton)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Jamie Bury-Zawada, Daria Bury-Zawada, Michał Czerniec & Soheyl Mohammad)
  (Honourable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Fallout 4, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, The Order: 1886, Star Wars: Battlefront)

Best Story/Writing

• Batman: Arkham Knight (Martin Lancaster, Sefton Hill & Ian Ball)
• Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Life is Strange (Christian Divine & Jean-Luc Cano)
• Tales from the Borderlands (Pierre Shorette, Jeremy Breslau, Chuck Jordan, Eric Stirpe, Brian Freyermuth, Anthony Burch & Zack Keller)
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Marcin Blacha)
  (Honourable Mentions: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Fallout 4, Minecraft: Story Mode, Undertale, Until Dawn)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Ashly Burch - Life is Strange for voicing Chloe Price
• Mark Hamill - Batman: Arkham Knight for voicing The Joker
• Camilla Luddington - Rise of the Tomb Raider for voicing Lara Croft
• Viva Seifert - Her Story for voicing Hannah Smith
• Patrick Warburton - Tales from the Borderlands for voicing Hugo Vasquez
  (Honourable Mentions: Doug Cockle - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Merle Dandridge - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Brett Dalton - Until Dawn, John Noble - Batman: Arkham Knight, Catherine Taber - Minecraft: Story Mode)

2014 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (Cameron Lee)
  
• Far Cry 4 (Cedric Decelle)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Nathan Edson & Zeb Wedell)
• Titanfall (Drew McCoy)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Mario Kart 8, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Alien: Isolation (Alistair Hope)
• Destiny (Jonty Barnes)
• Far Cry 4 (Alex Hutchinson & Patrik Méthé)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matthew T. Allen)
• Titanfall (Steve Fukuda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bayonetta 2, inFAMOUS Second Son, Shovel Knight, The Wolf Among Us, Wolfenstein: The New Order)

Best Game Design

• Destiny (James McQuillan, Alex Pfeiffer, Jason Jones & Luke Smith)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (Sebastian Hanlon & Daniel Kading)
• Far Cry 4 (Jean-Claude Rosay & Nicolas Duclos)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Derek Sakamoto)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Michael de Plater)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Mario Kart 8, Monument Valley, Titanfall, Transistor)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (John Vignocchi & Mathew Solie)
• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Ryan Harris & Vince Joly)
• Fantasia: Music Evolved (Daniel Sussman)
• LittleBigPlanet 3 (Michelle Leonard, Simon Livesey & John O'Brien)
• Mario Kart 8 (Kosuke Yabuki)
  (Honourable Mentions: Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, The LEGO Movie Videogame, Project Spark, Skylanders Trap Team, Tomodachi Life)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• The Crew (Julian Gerighty)
• FIFA 15 (Simon Keith Humber)
• Mario Kart 8 (Kosuke Yabuki)
• NBA 2K15 (Jeffrey J. Thomas & Rob Jones)
• Trials Fusion (Antti Ilvessuo)
  (Honourable Mentions: Forza Horizon 2, Madden NFL 15, Mario Golf: World Tour, MLB '14: The Show, OlliOlli)

Best Technical Innovation

• Destiny (Chris Butcher & Ben Wallace)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Mark Kockerbeck & Sasha Sydoruk)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Matthew Rice)
• Monument Valley (Peter Pashley, Manesh Mistry & Van Le)
• Titanfall (Richard A. Baker & Earl Hammon Jr.)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Far Cry 4, Project Spark, Sunset Overdrive, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)

Best Multiplayer [TIE]

• Destiny
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
• Mario Kart 8
  
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS
• Titanfall

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• The Banner Saga (Lance James)
• Civilization: Beyond Earth (Dennis Shirk & Lena Brenk)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Hamilton Chu)
• The Sims 4 (Michael Duke, James Rogers & Robert Vernick)
• Tropico 5 (Gabriel Dobrev)
  (Honourable Mentions: Boom Beach, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Legend, FTL: Faster Than Light, Monument Valley)

Best Audio Design

• Alien: Isolation (Mark Ganus, Byron Bullock, James Magee & Sam Cooper)
• Destiny (C Paul Johnson, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori & Jay Weinland)
• Far Cry 4 (Tony Gronick, Eduardo Vaisman, Martin Laplante & Kevin Vail)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Brian Pamintuan, Lucas Carlyle, Morgan Green & Jason Wolford)
• Titanfall (Erik Kraber, Bryan O. Watkins, Mitchell Osias & Tyler Parsons)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare)

Best Music

• The Banner Saga (Austin Wintory)
• Destiny (Martin O'Donnell, C Paul Johnson, Michael Salvatori & Paul McCartney)
• Far Cry 4 (Cliff Martinez)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Garry Schyman & Nathan Grigg)
• Transistor (Darren Korb)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alien: Isolation, Child of Light, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Titanfall, The Wolf Among Us)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Bravely Default (Kensuke Nakahara)
• Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Robert Pardo & Hamilton Chu)
• Shovel Knight (Sean Velasco)
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Masahiro Sakurai)
• Tomodachi Life (Noriyuki Sato, Ryutaro Takahashi & Eisaku Nakae)
  (Honourable Mentions: 80 Days, Child of Light, Monument Valley, Threes!, The Walking Dead: Season Two)

Best Fighting Game

• Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- (Daisuke Ishiwatari & Takeshi Yamanaka)
• Killer Instinct: Season Two (Ken Lobb, Adam Isgreen & Michael Donges)
• Nidhogg (Mark Essen)
• Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (Kazuhisa Wada, Seiji Fukumoto & Takumi Iguchiya)
• Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS (Masahiro Sakurai)

Best Art Direction

• Assassin's Creed Unity (Mohamed Gambouz)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (Matthew M. Goldman)
• Far Cry 4 (Jean-Alexis Doyon)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Philip Straub)
• Monument Valley (Ken Wong & David Fernández Huerta)
  (Honourable Mentions: Child of Light, Sunset Overdrive, Transistor, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, The Wolf Among Us)

Best Animation

• Assassin's Creed Unity (Mike Mennillo, Chi Chun Ng, Guillaume Lefebvre & Eduardo Simioni)
• inFAMOUS Second Son (Jason Stansell, Erik Medina, Max Chapman & William Harper)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Camille Chu, John Piel, John Van Deusen & Patrick Watje)
• Titanfall (Mark Grigsby & Paul Messerly)
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Luca Erbetta, Valérie Geoffroy, Nicolas Léger & Stéphane Rose)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bayonetta 2, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Mario Kart 8, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Sunset Overdrive)

Best Story/Writing

• Dragon Age: Inquisition (David Gaider)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Christian Cantamessa)
• South Park: The Stick of Truth (Trey Parker, Matt Stone & Eric Fenstermaker)
• The Walking Dead: Season Two (Nick Breckon, Andrew Grant, Pierre Shorette, JT Petty & Eric Stirpe)
• The Wolf Among Us (Pierre Shorette, Dave Grossman, Adam Hines, Dan Martin & Nicole Martinez)
  (Honourable Mentions: 80 Days, Broken Age, This War of Mine, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Wolfenstein: The New Order)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Troy Baker - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor for voicing Talion
• Adam Harrington - The Wolf Among Us for voicing Bigby Wolf
• Melissa Hutchinson - The Walking Dead: Season Two for voicing Clementine
• Trey Parker - South Park: The Stick of Truth for voicing various characters
• Kevin Spacey - Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare for voicing Jonathan Irons
  (Honourable Mentions: Troy Baker - Far Cry 4, Logan Cunningham - Transistor, Phil LaMarr - Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Hugh Laurie - LittleBigPlanet 3, Elijah Wood - Broken Age)