Although we are already immersed in 2022, the awards ceremony continue to recognize the best video games of 2021. In that sense, we have now known that Forza Horizon 5 is a candidate for GOTY at the GDC Awards, the awards granted by the Game Developers Conference. Recognitions that have special weight within the industry, as they are granted by the people responsible for creating the entertainment that accompanies us each year. Xbox Game Studios titles have had an important role in 2021 and this is reflected in these awards, with Forza Horizon 5, Deathloop o Psychonauts 2 bringing together several candidacies.
Below you can see the complete list nominees for the GDC Awards.
Game of the year
- Inscryption
- Forza Horizon 5
- Resident Evil Village
- Deathloop
- It Takes Two
Better audio
- Returnal
- Unpacking
- Deathloop
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- Forza Horizon 5
Best debut
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Valheim
- Wildermyth
- The Artful Escape
- Sable
Better design
- It Takes Two
- Psychonauts 2
- Halo Infinite
- Deathloop
- Inscryption
Innovation Award
- It Takes Two
- Wildermyth
- Unpacking
- Inscryption
- Deathloop
Best Narrative
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- Deathloop
- It Takes Two
- Psychonauts 2
- Unpacking
Social impact award
- Before Your Eyes
- It Takes Two
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Boyfriend Dungeon
- Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Better technology
- Halo Infinite
- Forza Horizon 5
- Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart
- Returnal
- Hitman 3
Best visual art
- Forza Horizon 5
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits
- Deathloop
- Ratchet & Clank: A Dimension Apart
- Psychonauts 2
Among the games from Xbox Game Studios, Deathloop has six nominations; Forza Horizon 5, four; Psychonauts 2, three; and Halo Infinite, two. Thus, we can conclude that 2021 has been a magnificent year for Xbox, which continues to accumulate recognitions, in this case from the Game Developers Conference, whose awards ceremony will be held next 23 of March in a ceremony that will be broadcast on the entity’s official Twitch channel. It will be then when we know which video game is raised with the highest recognition.