Gameranx: 13 Game of the Year awards

Gameranx is a website from United States, founded in 2010. It appears in this database with 13 Game of the Year picks across 10 award seasons (2011–2023); its most frequent pick was Red Dead Redemption 2.

In the seasons tracked at full breadth, 6 of its 13 picks went to the game that won the season overall; the most recent was Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023.

Gameranx was founded in 2010; no singular outlet-wide GOTY was verified for 2010, 2013, 2014, or 2021.

What "2011–2023" 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
2023	Baldur's Gate 3	Editorial
2022	Elden Ring	Editorial
2020	Ghost of Tsushima	Readers' choice
2019	Control	Editorial
2019	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Readers' choice
2018	Red Dead Redemption 2	Editorial
2018	Red Dead Redemption 2	Readers' choice
2017	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	Editorial
2017	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild	Readers' choice
2016	DOOM	Editorial
2015	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	Editorial
2012	XCOM: Enemy Unknown	Editorial
2011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Editorial

References

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

1.https://gameranx.com/updates/id/88518/article/moving-on/

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