Elite: Dangerous: 2 Game of the Year awards

No: Elite: Dangerous collected 2 Game of the Year awards in 2014 and finished No. 22; the season went to Dragon Age: Inquisition with 139. The Game Awards named Dragon Age: Inquisition its Game of the Year.

Elite Dangerous is an online space, trading, exploration and combat simulation developed and published by Frontier Developments. The player commands a spaceship in a realistic 1:1 scale open-world representation of the Milky Way, with open-ended gameplay.

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Elite: Dangerous finished #22 in the 2014 race, with 2 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

2Total awards
2Media outlets
0Readers' choice
2Countries

Also in the 2014 season: Dragon Age: Inquisition (139), Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (52), Mario Kart 8 (31), Transistor (3), South Park: The Stick of Truth (2), The Evil Within (2), The Talos Principle (2) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Elite: Dangerous win?

Elite: Dangerous won 2 Game of the Year awards in the 2014 season — 0.5% of every award tracked that season. 2 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 2 countries.

Did Elite: Dangerous win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 22 in 2014, behind Dragon Age: Inquisition, which collected 139 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released16 December 2014
DeveloperFrontier Developments
PublisherFrontier Developments

space flight simulation game
massively multiplayer online game
science fiction video game
space trading and combat game
Microsoft Windows
Xbox One
PlayStation 4
macOS
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X and Series S

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United Kingdom	1
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
bit-tech	United Kingdom	2014
Game Developers Choice Awards	United States	2014

← Full 2014 results

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