Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2021 and finished No. 40; the season went to It Takes Two with 89. The Game Awards named It Takes Two its Game of the Year.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl are 2021 remakes of the 2006 Nintendo DS role-playing video games Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The games were developed by ILCA and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch.

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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl finished #40 in the 2021 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2021 season: It Takes Two (89), Resident Evil Village (62), Forza Horizon 5 (54), Old World (1), Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (1), Scarlet Nexus (1), The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl win?

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2021 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 0 came from editorial picks and 1 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 40 in 2021, behind It Takes Two, which collected 89 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released19 November 2021
DeveloperILCA
PublisherThe Pokémon Company, Nintendo

role-playing video game
Nintendo Switch

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Netherlands	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Game Mania Readers	Netherlands	2021

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