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Game of the Year 2015 country by country
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt won 2015 with 281 of 482 tracked Game of the Year awards — 58.3%, and the top spot in 42 of 48 countries. But a global majority is not a global consensus: 6 countries handed their most awards to something else, and 12 different games won at least one country outright. In Norway and Japan, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt did not receive a single award.
- 58%The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt worldwide
- 48Countries with data
- 6Backed someone else
- 12Games 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 Witcher 3: Wild Hunt took. The spread is the story: the same game can be near-unanimous in one region and absent in another.
Awards for The Witcher 3: Wild HuntAwards for everything else
| Region | Awards | Countries | Regional winner | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt share | Different games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 1 | 1 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 100% | 1 |
| Eastern Europe | 37 | 7 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 84% | 5 |
| Southern Europe | 78 | 5 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 78% | 5 |
| Middle East | 12 | 5 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 75% | 4 |
| Latin America | 27 | 6 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 67% | 4 |
| Oceania | 16 | 2 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 62% | 4 |
| Northern Europe | 28 | 5 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 57% | 7 |
| Western Europe | 110 | 8 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 53% | 15 |
| Africa | 6 | 1 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 50% | 3 |
| Asia | 11 | 6 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 45% | 7 |
| North America | 156 | 2 | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 44% | 20 |
The countries that picked something else
6 of 48 countries gave their most awards to a game other than The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Norway, Switzerland, Japan. Below, each of those with at least 3 tracked outlets gets its full breakdown — every game and every outlet that named it.
Norway: Bloodborne / Fallout 4 / Life Is Strange / Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain / Rocket League / Undertale
6 tracked outlets, 6 different games awarded. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt took 0 of them (0%).
Switzerland: Fallout 4
3 tracked outlets, 2 different games awarded. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt took 1 of them (33%).
- 2× Fallout 4
20 Minuten Readers' Choice (readers), GAMES.CH - 1× The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Japan: Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth / Fallout 4 / Splatoon
3 tracked outlets, 3 different games awarded. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt took 0 of them (0%).
- 1× Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Entermix Magazine industry insiders' Choice - 1× Splatoon
Famitsu (readers) - 1× Fallout 4
Game*Spark Readers' Choice (readers)
Every game that won at least one country
| Game | Countries won | Awards worldwide |
|---|---|---|
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 42 | 281 |
| Fallout 4 | 6 | 65 |
| Bloodborne | 3 | 34 |
| Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain | 3 | 31 |
| Rocket League | 2 | 7 |
| Life Is Strange | 1 | 14 |
| Undertale | 1 | 7 |
| Assassin's Creed Syndicate | 1 | 2 |
| Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth | 1 | 1 |
| Splatoon | 1 | 3 |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops III | 1 | 1 |
| Final Fantasy XIV | 1 | 1 |
All 48 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 2015 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.