Empire: 7 Game of the Year awards

Empire is a print magazine from United Kingdom, founded in 1989. It appears in this database with 7 Game of the Year picks across 7 award seasons (2010–2025); its most frequent pick was Astro Bot.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 5 of its 7 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in 2025.

Empire publishes an annual countdown of the year's best games; the number one is its game of the year.

What "2010–2025" means.

It is the first and last year this outlet appears in our award data — not necessarily its founding or closing date. An outlet may have existed longer, or simply skipped a year's award.

Every Game of the Year it picked

Year	Game of the Year	Vote type
2025	Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	Editorial
2024	Astro Bot	Editorial
2023	Baldur's Gate 3	Editorial
2022	Elden Ring	Editorial
2021	Deathloop	Editorial
2020	The Last of Us Part II	Editorial
2010	Mass Effect 2	Editorial

References

Primary sources cited while researching this outlet's award history.

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