City of Heroes: 1 Game of the Year award

No: City of Heroes collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2004 and finished No. 12; the season went to Half-Life 2 with 26. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas its Game of the Year.

City of Heroes (CoH) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game originally created by Cryptic Studios prior to the IP’s acquisition by NCSoft. Previously developed by the now-defunct Paragon Studios, it is currently developed by several private servers, one of them being Homecoming Servers who have a limited license from NCSoft.

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City of Heroes finished #12 in the 2004 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2004 season: Half-Life 2 (26), Halo 2 (13), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (9), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (1), The Sims 2 (1), Fable (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did City of Heroes win?

City of Heroes won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2004 season — 1.5% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did City of Heroes win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 12 in 2004, behind Half-Life 2, which collected 26 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerNo
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released27 April 2004
DeveloperCryptic Studios
PublisherNC

massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Microsoft Windows
macOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United Kingdom	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Gamesmagazine-online	United Kingdom	2004

← Full 2004 results

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