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Xenoblade Chronicles: 2 Game of the Year awards

No: Xenoblade Chronicles collected 2 Game of the Year awards in 2012 and finished No. 16; the season went to The Walking Dead: The Game with 75. Spike Video Game Awards named The Walking Dead: The Game its Game of the Year.

Xenoblade Chronicles is an action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Wii. Initially released in Japan in 2010, it was later released in the PAL regions in 2011 and in North America in 2012.

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Xenoblade Chronicles finished #16 in the 2012 race, with 2 GOTY awards from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

  • 2Total awards
  • 2Media outlets
  • 0Readers' choice
  • 1Countries

Also in the 2012 season: The Walking Dead: The Game (75), Journey (58), Far Cry 3 (53), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (3), The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (3), Sleeping Dogs (2), Blade & Soul (1), Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (1) · full results

Quick answers

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

Xenoblade Chronicles won 2 Game of the Year awards in the 2012 season — 0.5% of every award tracked that season. 2 came from editorial picks and 0 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Xenoblade Chronicles win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 16 in 2012, behind The Walking Dead: The Game, which collected 75 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

  • Single-playerYes
  • Co-opNo
  • Split screenNo
  • MultiplayerNo
  • Online multiplayerNo
  • Released10 June 2010
  • DeveloperMonolith Soft Inc.
  • PublisherNintendo
  • action role-playing game
  • science fiction video game
  • Wii
  • New Nintendo 3DS
  • Wii U

Where the awards came from

CountryAwards
United States2

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

OutletCountry Year
PixlBitUnited States2012
Slant MagazineUnited States2012

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