Darksiders: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Darksiders collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2010 and finished No. 20; the season went to Red Dead Redemption with 112. Spike Video Game Awards named Red Dead Redemption its Game of the Year.

Darksiders is a hack and slash action-adventure video game developed by Vigil Games and published by THQ. The game's inspiration is from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the player taking the role of the horseman War.

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Darksiders finished #20 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), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (1), BioShock 2 (1), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (1), Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (1), Epic Mickey (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Darksiders win?

Darksiders 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 Darksiders win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 20 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
Released5 January 2010
DeveloperVigil Games
PublisherTHQ

action-adventure game
post-apocalyptic video game
X-BOX 360
PlayStation 3
Microsoft Windows
Linux
PlayStation 4

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United Kingdom	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Made2Game	United Kingdom	2010

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