Xenoblade Chronicles 3: 7 Game of the Year awards

No: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 collected 7 Game of the Year awards in 2022 and finished No. 4; the season went to Elden Ring with 436. The Game Awards named Elden Ring its Game of the Year.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is an installment in the open-world Xenoblade series, itself a part of the larger Xeno franchise.

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 finished #4 in the 2022 race, with 7 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

7Total awards
4Media outlets
3Readers' choice
3Countries

Also in the 2022 season: Elden Ring (436), God of War Ragnarök (109), Immortality (9), Horizon Forbidden West (6), Vampire Survivors (4), Pentiment (4) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Xenoblade Chronicles 3 win?

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 won 7 Game of the Year awards in the 2022 season — 1.2% of every award tracked that season. 4 came from editorial picks and 3 from readers' polls, across 3 countries.

Did Xenoblade Chronicles 3 win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 4 in 2022, behind Elden Ring, which collected 436 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerNo
Online multiplayerNo
Released29 July 2022
DeveloperMonolith Soft Inc.
PublisherNintendo

action role-playing game
Nintendo Switch

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
United States	5
Spain	1
Canada	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
FinalWeapon	United States	2022
Kit & Krysta Readers	United States	2022
Meristation Readers	Spain	2022
MMNTech	Canada	2022
Noisy Pixel	United States	2022
Noisy Pixel Readers	United States	2022
Siliconera	United States	2022

← Full 2022 results

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