Ori and the Blind Forest: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Ori and the Blind Forest collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2015 and finished No. 23; the season went to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with 281. The Game Awards named The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt its Game of the Year.

Ori and the Blind Forest is a platform-adventure Metroidvania video game developed by Moon Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The game was released for Windows and Xbox One in March 2015, and for Nintendo Switch in September 2019.

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Ori and the Blind Forest finished #23 in the 2015 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2015 season: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (281), Fallout 4 (65), Bloodborne (34), Kerbal Space Program (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Ori and the Blind Forest win?

Ori and the Blind Forest won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2015 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Ori and the Blind Forest win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 23 in 2015, behind The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which collected 281 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released11 March 2015
DeveloperMoon Studios
PublisherXbox Game Studios

action-adventure game
platformer
Metroidvania
Xbox One
X-BOX 360
Microsoft Windows
Nintendo Switch

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Bleeding Cool	United States	2015

← Full 2015 results

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