Pokémon Sun and Moon: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Pokémon Sun and Moon collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2016 and finished No. 32; the season went to Uncharted 4: A Thief's End with 191. The Game Awards named Overwatch its Game of the Year.

Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon are 2016 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. They are the first installments in the seventh generation of the Pokémon video game series.

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Pokémon Sun and Moon finished #32 in the 2016 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2016 season: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (191), Overwatch (114), DOOM (37), Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Pokémon Sun and Moon win?

Pokémon Sun and Moon won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2016 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 0 came from editorial picks and 1 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Pokémon Sun and Moon win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 32 in 2016, behind Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, which collected 191 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released18 November 2016
DeveloperGame Freak
PublisherThe Pokémon Company

role-playing video game
turn-based Japanese role-playing game
Nintendo 3DS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Japan	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Famitsu Readers	Japan	2016

← Full 2016 results

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