Alan Wake: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Alan Wake collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2010 and finished No. 15; the season went to Red Dead Redemption with 112. Spike Video Game Awards named Red Dead Redemption its Game of the Year.

Alan Wake is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The game was released in May 2010 for the Xbox 360, with a Windows version following in February 2012 and a remastered version released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows in October 2021, as well as a Nintendo Switch version in October 2022.

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Alan Wake finished #15 in the 2010 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
1Media outlets
0Readers' choice
1Countries

Also in the 2010 season: Red Dead Redemption (112), Mass Effect 2 (104), Super Mario Galaxy 2 (22), Deadly Premonition (3), Gran Turismo 5 (2), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (1), BioShock 2 (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Alan Wake win?

Alan Wake won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2010 season — 0.3% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Alan Wake win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 15 in 2010, behind Red Dead Redemption, which collected 112 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released14 May 2010
DeveloperRemedy Entertainment
PublisherXbox Game Studios

action-adventure game
X-BOX 360
Microsoft Windows

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
TIME	United States	2010

← Full 2010 results

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.