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Mass Effect: 5 Game of the Year awards

No: Mass Effect collected 5 Game of the Year awards in 2007 and finished No. 8; the season went to BioShock with 48. Spike Video Game Awards named BioShock its Game of the Year.

Mass Effect is a 2007 action role-playing game developed by BioWare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It is the first game in the Mass Effect series, and takes place within the Milky Way galaxy in the year 2183, where civilization is threatened by a highly advanced machine race known as the Reapers.

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Mass Effect finished #8 in the 2007 race, with 5 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

  • 5Total awards
  • 4Media outlets
  • 1Readers' choice
  • 3Countries

Also in the 2007 season: BioShock (48), Super Mario Galaxy (46), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (23), Halo 3 (7), Rock Band (6), The Orange Box (6), Crysis (4), Gears of War (2) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Mass Effect win?

Mass Effect won 5 Game of the Year awards in the 2007 season — 3.0% of every award tracked that season. 4 came from editorial picks and 1 from readers' polls, across 3 countries.

Did Mass Effect win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 8 in 2007, behind BioShock, which collected 48 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

  • action role-playing game
  • third-person shooter
  • role-playing video game
  • LGBT-themed video game
  • X-BOX 360
  • Microsoft Windows
  • PlayStation 3
  • PlayStation 4
  • Xbox One

Where the awards came from

CountryAwards
Canada2
United States2
Russia1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

OutletCountry Year
Elan AwardsCanada2007
ExtremegamerCanada2007
GameMAG ReadersRussia2007
Gaming SteveUnited States2007
The New York TimesUnited States2007

← Full 2007 results

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