Nominations for the 2022 Game Awards have already been released. God of War Ragnarök leads the pack with an impressive 10 nominations, including the prestigious Game of the Year trophy. Following in second place is FromSoftware’s magnum opus Elden Ring, which is tied with PlayStation’s RPG Horizon Forbidden West for seven nods – sharing space with Ragnarök for GOTY awards, Best Game Direction and Best Art Direction. The annual Geoff Keighley-directed show also introduced a new Best Adaptation category, which celebrates video game-inspired projects across all forms of media – movies, TV series, books and more.
108 different games are spread across the 2022 edition of The Game Awards roster, adding numerous new reveals, live musical performances and the on-stage orchestra and celebrity presenters. Winners will be announced on 8th December (9th December in India, 6am to 9am IST), live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles – they will be available to stream for free on Youtube, Twitch, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok Live and, for the first time, Instagram Live. Fans can vote until December 7th via the official TGA website or the TGA Discord server via the official Voting Bot.
With that, here is the full list of nominees for The Game Awards 2022:
game of the year
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
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best game direction
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Immortality (Half Mermaid)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Best Narrative
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Immortality (Half Mermaid)
Best Art Direction
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Best Soundtrack and Music
Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem
Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring
McCreary Bear, God of War Ragnarök
Two Feathers, Metal: Hellsinger
Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Best Audio Design
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SHE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Best performance
Ashly Burch, Forbidden Horizon West
Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarok
Manon Gage, Immortality
Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarok
Impact Games
A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
At Dusk (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
Sleeping Citizen (Jump Over The Age/Travelling Companion)
Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
Retrospective (Retrospective/Annapurna Team)
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
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Best Continuous Game
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (epic games)
Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
Best Indie
Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Tunic (Team TUNIC/Finji)
Best Indie Debut
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
Norco (Robot Geography/Raw Fury)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Tunic (Team TUNIC/Finji)
Survivor Vampires (poncle)
Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
Destiny 2 (Bungie)
Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)
Fortnite (epic games)
No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
best cell phone
Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
Genshin Impact (Ho Yovese)
Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
Fantasy Tower (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Endless Level)
Best VR/AR
After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
Bonelab (zero stress level)
Moss: Book II (Polyarc)
Red Matter 2 (vertical robot)
Best Action
Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)
Best Action/Adventure
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
Tunic (Team TUNIC/Finji)
Best Interpretation
Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)
best fight
DNF Duel (Arc System Works/EIGHTING/NEOPLE/NEXON)
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)
The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
MultiVersus (First Player Games/WB Games)
Sifu (Sloclap)
Best family
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveller’s Tales/WB Games)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
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Best Sim/Strategy
Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Editing/Sega)
Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)
Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)
Best Sports/Racing
F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/Sports 2K)
Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)
FIFA 23 review: Barely trying
Best Multiplayer
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)
MultiVersus (First Player Games/WB Games)
Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)
most anticipated
Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix)
Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)
Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
Content Creator of the Year
Karl Jacobs
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Best Adaptation
Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)
The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)
Innovation in Accessibility
At Dusk (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
The Last Of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)
The Quarry (supermassive/2K games)
Best Esports Game
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
DOTA 2 (valve)
League of Legends (Riot Games)
Rocket League (Psyonix)
Valorant (Riot Games)
Best Esports Athlete
Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon (Gen.G, LOL)
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (S1, LOL)
Finn “Karrigan” Andersen (FaZe Clan – CS:GO)
Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Born to Beat, CS:GO)
Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)
Best Esports Team
DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
Generation G (League of Legends)
LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
HIGH (Valorant)
Best Esports Coach
Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Born to Beat, CS:GO)
Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)
Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)
Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)
Best Esports Event
EVO 2022
2022 League of Legends World Championship
PGL Major Antwerp 2022
The 2022 mid-season invitation
Evaluating Champions 2022