The World Ends with You: 1 Game of the Year award

No: The World Ends with You collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2008 and finished No. 22; the season went to Fallout 3 with 69. Spike Video Game Awards named Grand Theft Auto IV its Game of the Year.

The World Ends with You is an action role-playing game co-developed by Square Enix and Jupiter for the Nintendo DS. Set in the modern-day Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo, The World Ends with You features a distinctive art style and urban fantasy elements inspired by Shibuya and its youth culture.

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The World Ends with You finished #22 in the 2008 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

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

Also in the 2008 season: Fallout 3 (69), Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (41), Grand Theft Auto IV (40), World of Goo (1) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did The World Ends with You win?

The World Ends with You won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2008 season — 0.5% of every award tracked that season. 1 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did The World Ends with You win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 22 in 2008, behind Fallout 3, which collected 69 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released27 July 2007
DeveloperSquare Enix, h.a.n.d., Jupiter
PublisherSquare Enix, Ubisoft

role-playing video game
Nintendo DS
Android (operating system)
IOS
Nintendo Switch

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Russia	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
GameMAG	Russia	2008

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