Sunless Sea: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Sunless Sea collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2015 and finished No. 25; 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.

Sunless Sea is a survival/exploration role-playing video game with roguelike elements developed by Failbetter Games. The game was released on 6 February 2015 for Windows and OS X following a successful Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund the project.

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Sunless Sea finished #25 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), Ori and the Blind Forest (1), Xenoblade Chronicles X (1), Final Fantasy XIV (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Sunless Sea win?

Sunless Sea 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 Sunless Sea win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 25 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
Released6 February 2015
DeveloperFailbetter Games
PublisherFailbetter Games

roguelike
post-apocalyptic video game
Microsoft Windows
macOS
Linux
IOS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
The New Yorker Magazine	United States	2015

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