Dragon Quest XI: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Dragon Quest XI collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2017 and finished No. 16; the season went to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 265. The Game Awards named The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild its Game of the Year.

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is a 2017 role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix. The eleventh entry in the Dragon Quest series, it was released in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation 4 in July 2017 and worldwide for the PlayStation 4 and Windows in September 2018.

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Dragon Quest XI finished #16 in the 2017 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2017 season: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (265), Horizon: Zero Dawn (69), Super Mario Odyssey (37), Agents of Mayhem (1), Cuphead (1), Hollow Knight (1), Night in the Woods (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Dragon Quest XI win?

Dragon Quest XI won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2017 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 0 came from editorial picks and 1 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Dragon Quest XI win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 16 in 2017, behind The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which collected 265 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released29 July 2017
DeveloperSquare Enix
PublisherSquare Enix

role-playing video game
Nintendo 3DS
PlayStation 4
Nintendo Switch
Microsoft Windows

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Japan	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Famitsu Readers	Japan	2017

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