The Game Awards 2022: Here are the nominees

Elden Ring is one of the titles nominated for Game of the Year 2022.

At the end of the year, the Game Awards will take place again, where the best games of the year will be crowned in a total of 31 categories, including game of the year. Now that this year’s nominees are known, here’s a look at the titles that have a chance of winning Best Story, Best Soundtrack, Games for Impact, and more.

Here are the nominees in all categories

NEW: Better Adaptation

• Arcane: League of Legends
• Cyberpunk: Edge Runners
• The Cuphead Show!
• sonic the hedgehog 2
• Unexplored

game of the year

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Forbidden Horizon West
• Wander
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best multiplayer game

• CoD Modern Warfare 2
• MultiVersus
• Monitor 2
• Splaton 3
• TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge

best story

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Forbidden Horizon West
• immortality

Best Soundtrack

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Metal: Hellsinger
• Xenoblade Chronicles

Best Audio Design

• CoD Modern Warfare 2
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Gran Turismo 7
• Forbidden Horizon West

best fighting game

• DNF Duel
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R
• The king of fighters 15
• MultiVersus
• Sifu

Best sports game

• F1 22
• FIFA 23
• NBA 2K23
• Gran Turismo 7
• World Olliolli

Best Simulation/Strategy Game

• Dune: The Spice Wars
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Total War: Warhammer 3
• Two-point campus
• Victoria 3

Best VR/AR Game

• After the fall
• Among Us VR
• bonelab
• Moss: Book 2
• Red matter 2

Best Indie Game

• Worship of the Lamb
• neon white
• Sifu
• Wander
• tunic

Best eSports Trainer

• Andrii “B1AD3” Horodenskyi
• Matheus “BZKA” Tarasconi
• Erik “DOOMBROS” Sandgren
• Robert “ROBBAN” Dahlstrom
• Go “SCORE” Dong Bin

Best eSports Event

• Evo 2022
• 2022 League of Legends World Championship
• PGL Major Antwerp 2022
• The 2022 mid-season invitation
• Valiant Champions 2022

Best mobile game

• Apex Legends Mobile
• Diablo Immortal
• Genshin Impact
• Snap Marvel
• Tower of Fantasy

Impact Games

• A memory blue
• As dusk falls
• sleeper citizen
• Endling – Extinction is Eternal
• back view
• I was an exocolonist teenager

Best RPG

• Elden Ring
• live alive
• Pokemon Legends: Arceus
• Triangle strategy
• Xenoblade Chronicles

Best Action-Adventure

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• God of War Ragnarok
• Forbidden Horizon West
• Wander
• tunic

Best action game

• bayonet 3
• CoD Modern Warfare 2
• neon white
• Sifu
• TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge

Best family game

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Nintendo Switch Sports
• Splaton 3

Best Art Design

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Forbidden Horizon West
• contempt
• Wander

Best game direction

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Forbidden Horizon West
• immortality
• Wander

Better community support

• Apex Legends
• destiny 2
• Final Fantasy 14
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky

Best Ongoing Game

• Apex Legends
• destiny 2
• Final Fantasy 14
• Fortnite
• Genshin Impact

Best Indie Debut

• neon white
• norco
• Wander
• tunic
• vampire survivors

Innovation in accessibility

• As dusk falls
• God of War Ragnarok
• Back to Monkey Island
• The last of us part 1
• The career

Better performance

• Ashley Burch
• Charlotte McBurney
• Christopher Judge
• Msnon Gage
• Sunny Suljic

Content Creator of the Year

• Karl Jacobs
• Louis
• nibellion
• nobru
• QTCinderella

Best eSports game

• Counterattack: Global Offense
• DOTA 2
• League of Legends
• rocket league
• Valorant

Best eSport Athlete

• Jeong “CHOVY” Ji Hoon
• Lee “FAKER” Sang Hyok
• Finn “KARRIGAN” Andersen
• Oleksandr “S1MPLE” Kostyliev
• Jacob “YAY” Whiteaker

Best eSports Team

• Darkzero eSports
• disconcert the clan
• Gen.G
• The thieves
• Strong

Most Wanted 2022

• Final Fantasy 16
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Resident Evil 4
• star field
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Here’s what to expect at The Game Awards 2022

In addition to announcing the winners of each category, The Game Awards also hosted a show. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, we’re supposed to review unannounced games, trailers, and world premieres. The Game Awards will take place on December 9, 2022 at 1:30 a.m. German time. You can watch the stream via YouTube or Twitch.

If you want to vote for yourself, you can now participate in the public vote on the official Discord channel.

Which of the nominees do you prefer?