Game Developers Choice Awards: 35 Game of the Year awards

Game Developers Choice Awards is a awards body from United States, founded in 2001. It appears in this database with 35 Game of the Year picks across 26 award seasons (2000–2025); its most frequent pick was Balatro.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 13 of its 32 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 in 2025.

The awards have presented an annual Game of the Year since the inaugural 2001 ceremony honoring games released in 2000.

What "2000–2025" 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	Balatro	Editorial
2023	Baldur's Gate 3	Editorial
2022	Elden Ring	Editorial
2021	Inscryption	Editorial
2020	Hades	Editorial
2020	Ghost of Tsushima	Editorial
2019	Untitled Goose Game	Editorial
2019	Sky: Children of the Light	Editorial
2018	God of War	Editorial
2018	Beat Saber	Editorial
2017	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	Editorial
2017	NieR: Automata	Editorial
2016	Overwatch	Editorial
2016	Battlefield 1	Editorial
2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Editorial
2015	Life Is Strange	Editorial
2014	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor	Editorial
2014	Elite: Dangerous	Editorial
2013	The Last of Us	Editorial
2013	Kerbal Space Program	Editorial
2012	Journey	Editorial
2012	Dishonored	Editorial
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial
2010	Red Dead Redemption	Editorial
2009	Uncharted 2: Among Thieves	Editorial
2008	Fallout 3	Editorial
2007	Portal	Editorial
2006	Gears of War	Editorial
2005	Shadow of the Colossus	Editorial
2004	Half-Life 2	Editorial
2003	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic	Editorial
2002	Metroid Prime	Editorial
2001	Grand Theft Auto III	Editorial
2000	The Sims	Editorial

References

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

1.https://gamechoiceawards.com/archive-gdca-2022/

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