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Game of the Year 2011 country by country
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim won 2011 with 226 of 411 tracked Game of the Year awards — 55.0%, and the top spot in 27 of 39 countries. But a global majority is not a global consensus: 12 countries handed their most awards to something else, and 9 different games won at least one country outright. In Portugal and Czechia, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim did not receive a single award.
- 55%The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim worldwide
- 39Countries with data
- 12Backed someone else
- 9Games that won a country
Where the winner was strong, and where it was not
Grouped by region, sorted by how much of each region's vote The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took. The spread is the story: the same game can be near-unanimous in one region and absent in another.
Awards for The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimAwards for everything else
| Region | Awards | Countries | Regional winner | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim share | Different games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Europe | 31 | 5 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 68% | 4 |
| Oceania | 18 | 2 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 67% | 6 |
| Eastern Europe | 20 | 5 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 60% | 7 |
| Latin America | 5 | 3 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 60% | 2 |
| Middle East | 5 | 4 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 60% | 3 |
| Southern Europe | 42 | 4 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 57% | 9 |
| North America | 175 | 2 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 54% | 15 |
| Western Europe | 94 | 6 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 50% | 11 |
| Asia | 10 | 6 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 50% | 5 |
| Africa | 9 | 1 | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 44% | 4 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | 0% | 1 |
The countries that picked something else
12 of 39 countries gave their most awards to a game other than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Portugal, Singapore, Czechia. Below, each of those with at least 3 tracked outlets gets its full breakdown — every game and every outlet that named it.
Portugal: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
5 tracked outlets, 4 different games awarded. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took 0 of them (0%).
- 2× Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Eurogamer.pt Readers' Choice GOTY (readers), GameOver - 1× Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
GameOver Readers' Choice GOTY (readers) - 1× Dark Souls
MyGames - 1× Portal 2
Portugal Gaming
Singapore: Battlefield 3
3 tracked outlets, 2 different games awarded. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took 1 of them (33%).
- 2× Battlefield 3
Digital Life Awards Readers' Choice GOTY (readers), POPCulture Online - 1× The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Digital Life Awards
Czechia: Portal 2 / The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword / The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
3 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took 0 of them (0%).
Every game that won at least one country
| Game | Countries won | Awards worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 27 | 226 |
| The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword | 4 | 19 |
| Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception | 3 | 20 |
| Batman: Arkham City | 3 | 42 |
| Battlefield 3 | 2 | 8 |
| Portal 2 | 2 | 59 |
| The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings | 1 | 4 |
| Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate | 1 | 1 |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | 1 | 3 |
All 39 countries
Read the small countries carefully.
A country with two tracked outlets that split their vote shows a 50% "winner" that means nothing. The archive is also heavily weighted towards Western outlets — the United States alone accounts for a fifth of all 2011 awards — so a thin row is a gap in our coverage, not evidence about that country's taste. Entries the source recorded as a language or a multi-country region rather than a country (Arab, Benelux, CA/FR, EUS …) are counted in the worldwide total but left out of the country ranking.