Guild Wars: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Guild Wars collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2005 and finished No. 11; the season went to Resident Evil 4 with 38. Spike Video Game Awards named Resident Evil 4 its Game of the Year.

Guild Wars is an online rpg developed by ArenaNet, a subsidiary of South Korean game publisher NCSOFT, and released in 2005. As the original instalment of the Guild Wars series, its campaign was retroactively retitled Guild Wars: Prophecies to differentiate it from the content of subsequent releases.

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Guild Wars finished #11 in the 2005 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2005 season: Resident Evil 4 (38), Shadow of the Colossus (6), God of War (4), Guitar Hero (1), Halo 2 (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Guild Wars win?

Guild Wars won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2005 season — 1.4% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Guild Wars win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 11 in 2005, behind Resident Evil 4, which collected 38 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerNo
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released26 April 2005
DeveloperArenaNet
PublisherNC

action role-playing game
Microsoft Windows

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
South Korea	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
GameShot	South Korea	2005

← Full 2005 results

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