Return to Monkey Island: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Return to Monkey Island collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2022 and finished No. 16; the season went to Elden Ring with 436. The Game Awards named Elden Ring its Game of the Year.

Return to Monkey Island is a 2022 point-and-click adventure game developed by Terrible Toybox and published by Devolver Digital in association with Lucasfilm Games. It is the sixth installment in the Monkey Island series, and was first released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows on September 19, 2022.

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Return to Monkey Island finished #16 in the 2022 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2022 season: Elden Ring (436), God of War Ragnarök (109), Immortality (9), Marvel Snap (1), Marvel’s Midnight Suns (1), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Return to Monkey Island win?

Return to Monkey Island won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2022 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Return to Monkey Island win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 16 in 2022, behind Elden Ring, which collected 436 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released19 September 2022
DeveloperTerrible Toybox
PublisherLucasfilm Games, Devolver Digital

adventure video game
Microsoft Windows
Nintendo Switch
macOS
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X and Series S
IOS
IPadOS
Linux

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Australia	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
AusGamers	Australia	2022

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