Sunless Skies: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Sunless Skies collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2019 and finished No. 34; the season went to Death Stranding with 118. The Game Awards named Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice its Game of the Year.

Sunless Skies is a role-playing video game developed by Failbetter Games. Partially funded by a Kickstarter campaign, the game entered early access in 2017 and released in January 2019, and has been described as a "Gothic horror roleplay game".

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Sunless Skies finished #34 in the 2019 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2019 season: Death Stranding (118), Resident Evil 2 (95), Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (85), Sky: Children of the Light (1), Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (1), 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (1) · full results

Quick answers

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

Sunless Skies won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2019 season — 0.2% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Sunless Skies win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 34 in 2019, behind Death Stranding, which collected 118 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released31 January 2019
DeveloperFailbetter Games
PublisherFailbetter Games

role-playing video game
roguelike
macOS
Microsoft Windows
Linux
PlayStation 4

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Quarter to Three	United States	2019

← Full 2019 results

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