By: Evan1Sonic. From Elden Ring to Gran Turismo 7, here is every game that was nominated and won each award at The Game Awards 2022.

Game of the Year

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

A Plague Tale: Requiem - Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Monolith Soft / Nintendo

Best Game Direction 

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Immortality - Half Mermaid

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Best Narrative 

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

A Plague Tale: Requiem - Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Immortality - Half Mermaid

Best Art Direction 

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Scorn - Ebb Software / Kepler Interactive

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Best Score and Music

God of War Ragnarök - Bear McCreary, Composer

A Plague Tale: Requiem - Olivier Deriviere, Composer

Elden Ring (Tsukasa Saitoh, Composer

Metal: Hellsinger - Two Feathers, Composer

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Yasunori Mitsuda, Composer

Best Audio Design

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Infinity Ward / Activision

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

Gran Turismo 7 - Polyphony Digital / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Best Performance

Christopher Judge - God of War Ragnarök

Ashly Burch - Horizon Forbidden West

Charlotte McBurney - A Plague Tale: Requiem

Manon Gage - Immortality

Sunny Suljic - God of War Ragnarök

Games for Impact

As Dusk Falls - Interior/Night / Xbox Game Studios

A Memoir Blue - Cloisters Interactive / Annapurna Interactive

Citizen Sleeper - Jump Over the Age / Fellow Traveller

Endling: Extinction is Forever - Herobeat Studios / HandyGames

Hindsight - Team Hindsight / Annapurna Interactive

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - Northway Games / Finji

Best Ongoing

Final Fantasy XIV - Creative Business Unit III / Square Enix

Apex Legends - Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts

Destiny 2 - Bungie

Fortnite - Epic Games

Genshin Impact - HoYoverse

Best Independent Game

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Cult of the Lamb - Massive Monster / Devolver Digital

Neon White - Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive

Sifu - Sloclap

Tunic - Tunic Team / Finji

Best Mobile Game

MARVEL SNAP - Second Dinner Studios / Nuverse

Apex Legends Mobile - Lightspeed Studios / Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts

Diablo Immortal - Blizzard / NetEase Games

Genshin Impact - HoYovese

Tower of Fantasy - Hotta Studio / Perfect World / Level Infinite

Best Community Support

Final Fantasy XIV - Creative Business Unit III / Square Enix

Apex Legends - Respawn Entertainment / Electronic Arts

Destiny 2 - Bungie

Fortnite - Epic Games

No Man’s Sky - Hello Games

Innovation in Accessibility

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

As Dusk Falls - Interior/Night / Xbox Game Studios

Return to Monkey Island - Terrible Toybox / Devolver Digital

The Last Of Us Part I - Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment

The Quarry - Supermassive Games / 2K

Best VR / AR

Moss: Book II - Polyarc

After the Fall - Vertigo Games

Among Us VR - Schell Games / InnerSloth

BONELAB - Stress Level Zero

Red Matter 2 - Vertical Robot

Best Action Game

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

Players Voice

Genshin Impact - HoYoverse 

Sonic Frontiers - Sonic Team / Sega

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Best Action / Adventure

God of War Ragnarök - Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment

A Plague Tale: Requiem - Asobo Studio / Focus Entertainment

Horizon Forbidden West - Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Tunic - Tunic Team / Finji

Best Role Playing

Elden Ring - FromSoftware / Bandai Namco Entertainment

Live A Live - historia / Square Enix

Pokémon Legends: Arceus - Game Freak / Nintendo / The Pokemon Company

Triangle Strategy - Artdink / Square Enix

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - Monolith Soft / Nintendo

Best Fighting

MultiVersus - Player First Games / Warner Bros. Games

DNF Duel - Arc System Works / Eighting / Neople / Nexon

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R - CyberConnect 2 / Bandai Namco Entertainment

The King of Fighters XV - SNK

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

Best Sim / Strategy

Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope - Ubisoft Milan / Ubisoft Paris / Ubisoft

Dune: Spice Wars - Shiro Games / Funcom

Total War: Warhammer III - Creative Assembly / SEGA

Two Point Campus - Two Point Studios / SEGAA

Victoria 3 - Paradox Development Studio / Paradox Interactive

Best Multiplayer

Splatoon 3 - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Infinity Ward / Activision

MultiVersus - Player First Games / WB Games

Overwatch 2 - Blizzard

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge - Tribute Games / Dotemu

Content Creator of the Year

Ludwig

Karl Jacobs

Nibellion

Nobru

QTCinderella

Best Debut Indie

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio / Annapurna Interactive

Neon White - Angel Matrix / Annapurna Interactive

Norco - Geography of Robots / Raw Fury

Tunic - Tunic Team / Finji

Vampire Survivors - Poncle

Best Adaptation

Arcane: League of Legends - Fortiche / Riot Games / Netflix

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners - Studio Trigger / CD Projekt RED / Netflix

The Cuphead Show! - Studio MDHR / King Features Syndicate / Netflix

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Sega Sammy Group / Paramount Pictures

Uncharted - PlayStation Productions / Sony Pictures

Most Anticipated Game

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo EPD / Nintendo

Final Fantasy XVI - Creative Business Unit III / Square Enix

Hogwarts Legacy - Avalanche Software / Warner Bros. Games

Resident Evil 4 - Capcom

Starfield - Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks

Best Esports Game

Valorant - Riot Games

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Valve

DOTA 2 - Valve

League of Legends - Riot Games

Rocket League - Psyonix / Epic Games

Best Esports Athlete

Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker - Cloud9, Valorant

Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon - Gen.G, League of Legends

Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok - T1, League of Legends

Finn “karrigan” Andersen - FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev - Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Best Esports Team

Loud - Valorant

DarkZero Esports - Apex Legends

FaZe Clan - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Gen.G - League of Legends

LA Thieves - Call of Duty

Best Esports Coach

Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi - Loud, Valorant

Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi - Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren - FPX, Valorant

Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström - FaZe Clan, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Go “Score” Dong-bin - Gen.G, League of Legends

Best Esports Event

2022 League of Legends World Championship

EVO 2022

PGL Major Antwerp 2022

The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational

Valorant Champions 2022

Best Sports / Racing

Gran Turismo 7 - Polyphony Digital / Sony Interactive Entertainment

F1 22 - Codemasters / EA Sports

FIFA 23 - EA Vancouver / Romania / EA Sports

NBA 2K23 - Visual Concepts / 2K Sports

OlliOlli World - Roll7 / Private Division

You can watch the full event here. That’s every game that was nominated and won each The Game Awards award. Would you have chosen a different game to win an award? Let me know in the comments below. Also, our recap of what was announced at the event is coming soon so please stay tuned.

Thanks for reading and Game On!!