Game of the Year 2022
Elden Ring
Winner · 2022
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Incomplete year.
Our full outlet-by-outlet dataset runs to 2021, when the source archive ends. For 2022 we currently list only awards we can cite individually, so the counts here are far below the real totals.
Published total
Elden Ring is reported to have won 435 of 599 Game of the Year awards (72.6%) in 2022.
Broke The Last of Us Part II's previous record of 322. This figure comes from Guinness World Records — Most Game of the Year awards, not from our own count. We list it for context and keep it separate from the awards we have documented ourselves.
What the big awards said
The major ceremonies we have verified winner lists for. Each links to its full history.
| Award | When | Their Game of the Year |
|---|---|---|
| Golden Joystick Awards | November | Elden Ring |
| The Game Awards | Early-to-mid December | Elden Ring |
| D.I.C.E. Awards | February | Elden Ring |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | March, during GDC | Elden Ring |
| BAFTA Games Awards | March or April | Vampire Survivors |
Documented so far (15)
Awards we can cite individually. This is a fraction of the real total — see below.
| Award / outlet | Type | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| D.I.C.E. Awards | Ceremony | Elden Ring |
| Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards | Ceremony | Elden Ring |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | Ceremony | Elden Ring |
| Golden Joystick Awards | Ceremony | Elden Ring |
| Japan Game Awards | Ceremony | Elden Ring |
| Ars Technica | Publication | Elden Ring |
| Destructoid | Publication | Elden Ring |
| EGM | Publication | Elden Ring |
| Eurogamer | Publication | Elden Ring |
| Game Informer | Publication | Elden Ring |
| GamesRadar+ | Publication | Elden Ring |
| GameSpot | Publication | Elden Ring |
| IGN | Publication | Elden Ring |
| PC Gamer | Publication | Elden Ring |
| Polygon | Publication | Elden Ring |
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
From our own archive (21)
The source site was still updating its 2022 page when it went offline. These are the awards it had recorded by then — a fraction of the season, kept because they are ours rather than cited from elsewhere.
| Outlet | Country | Their GOTY |
|---|---|---|
| Ars Technica | United States | Elden Ring |
| BAFTA Games Awards | United Kingdom | Vampire Survivors |
| Bilbao Games Conference (fka Fun & Serious Game Festival) | Spain | God of War Ragnarök |
| D.I.C.E. Awards | United States | Elden Ring |
| Destructoid | United States | Elden Ring |
| EGM | United States | Elden Ring |
| Eurogamer | United Kingdom | Elden Ring |
| Famitsu Dengeki Game Awards | Japan | Elden Ring |
| Game Developers Choice Awards | United States | Elden Ring |
| Game Informer | United States | Elden Ring |
| GameSpot | United States | Elden Ring |
| GamesRadar+ | United Kingdom | Elden Ring |
| Golden Joystick Awards | United Kingdom | Elden Ring |
| Golden Joystick Awards | United Kingdom | Elden Ring |
| IGN | United States | Elden Ring |
| Japan Game Awards | Japan | Elden Ring |
| PC Gamer | United States | Elden Ring |
| Polygon | United States | Elden Ring |
| Stuff.tv | United Kingdom | Elden Ring |
| The Game Awards | United States | Elden Ring |
| TrueGaming | Saudi Arabia | Elden Ring |