The GOTY meta-count
6,547 Game of the Year awards, counted
One game wins The Game Awards. Hundreds of other outlets pick their own, and almost nobody adds them up. This does: every Game of the Year award we can document, from 2003 to 2026, with the outlet, the country and the year behind each one.
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- 6,547Awards tracked
- 2,551Media outlets
- 87Countries
- 19Full years
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Which game franchise has won the most GOTY awards?
The Last of Us leads with 582 awards across 2 games — 70 series compared.
How many Game of the Year awards are given out each year?
From 40 tracked awards in 2003 to 651 in 2020 — and why raw totals mislead.
Which countries disagree with the world about Game of the Year?
Japan backs the eventual winner only 21.4% of the time.
Latest fully documented race
It Takes Two
Game of the Year 2021 · 89 awards
Why one show is not the whole answer
The Game Awards crowns one winner in December and the internet treats it as the verdict. But in 2024 the five biggest ceremonies crowned three different games, and in 2022 the BAFTAs went to Vampire Survivors while everyone else went to Elden Ring. Counting every award instead of watching one show gives a different, messier and more honest picture of which game a year actually belonged to.
Most awarded games of all time
Recent seasons
Our outlet-by-outlet data runs to 2021. These years are documented only in part.
Every fully documented year
- 2021It Takes Two
- 2020The Last of Us Part II
- 2019Death Stranding
- 2018God of War
- 2017The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- 2016Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- 2015The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- 2014Dragon Age: Inquisition
- 2013The Last of Us
- 2012The Walking Dead: The Game
- 2011The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- 2010Red Dead Redemption
- 2009Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- 2008Fallout 3
- 2007BioShock
- 2006The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
- 2005Resident Evil 4
- 2004Half-Life 2
- 2003Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Questions this data can answer
The ten awards that decide the season
From Tokyo Game Show in September to the BAFTAs in spring — who votes, when each lands, and the years they could not agree. In 2024 the five biggest awards crowned three different games.
Who does the voting
2,551 outlets from 87 countries — from BAFTA and the Game Developers Choice Awards down to single-country magazines and podcasts.