Elden Ring
436 Game of the Year awards
Elden Ring was the most-awarded game of 2022 with 436 Game of the Year awards (72.2% of the 604 tracked). The Game Awards named it Game of the Year too. Behind it in the count: God of War Ragnarök and Immortality.
Elden Ring won the 2022 season with 436 Game of the Year awards, 72.2% of the season's awards, ahead of God of War Ragnarök with 109.
The Game Awards named Elden Ring its Game of the Year for 2022. The same game collected the most awards across all outlets.
Elden Ring, with 436 Game of the Year awards - 72.2% of every award tracked that season. God of War Ragnarök was second with 109.
Counted across every outlet that gave an award, Elden Ring: 436 Game of the Year awards. 'Best' is each outlet's own judgement; this site adds those judgements up rather than making one of its own.
No. God of War Ragnarök finished second in 2022 with 109 awards, behind Elden Ring.
This site documents 604 Game of the Year awards for 2022, from 511 outlets in 58 countries. It is a documented minimum: every award has a source, and awards nobody recorded are not in it.
6 of 8 ceremonies on record picked the game the whole field rewarded most. How often each one agrees, across every season →
118 of the 2022 awards were readers' and community votes — the public's side of the season, counted separately. Players agreed with the press: Elden Ring topped the public vote too.
Every game that won at least one Game of the Year award in 2022, ranked by wins.
All 604 tracked awards for 2022, from 58 countries. 118 were readers' or community votes. Tap a column heading to sort.
Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.