On the night of November 22-23 Golden Joystick Awards 2022, where the best games of the last year according to users were named. The winners were traditionally determined by the results of a large-scale voting, in which gamers from all over the world could take part. The organizers announced that they had received “millions of votes”.
The triumph of the evening was ELDEN RING — both users and journalists unanimously called it the best game of the last year. At the same time, the Japanese studio FromSoftware was recognized as the best development team.
The most anticipated game was announced The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ot Nintendo.
Full list of 2022 winners:
Best Storytelling
- IMMORTALITY
- Return to Monkey Island
- Horizon Forbidden West
- NORCO
- I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
- Wayward Strand
Best Multiplayer Game
- ELDEN RING
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenue
- MultiVersus
- Splatoon 3
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Best Visual Design
- ELDEN RING
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Cult of the Lamb
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Lost in Play
Best Indie Game
- Cult of the Lamb
- Tunic
- Rollerdrome
- Dorfromantik
- Neon White
- Teardown
Studio of the Year
- Roll7
- Terrible Toybox
- Half Mermaid
- FromSoftware
- Interior / Night
- Tribute Games
Best Supplement
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
- Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
- GTA Online: The Contract
- Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
- Total War: Warhammer III – Immortal Empires
Best Early Access Game Launch
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Slime Rancher 2
- Dune: Spice Wars
- Core Keeper
- Vampire Survivors
- Gloomwood
Best game trailer
- The Callisto Protocol The Truth of Black Iron Trailer
- Goat Simulator 3 Announcement Trailer
- skate. Still Working On It Trailer
- Bloody Hell Hotel Reveal Trailer
- Time Flies Announcement Trailer
- Alan Wake 2 Reveal Trailer
Best Sound
- We Are OFK
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Metal: Hellsinger
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- Gran Turismo 7
- OlliOlli World
Best Acting
- Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel in Immortality)
- They Ramy (Travis v The Quarry)
- Dominique Armato (Guybrush Threepwood in Return to Monkey Island)
- Angela Bassett (Regalia in Horizon Forbidden West)
- Ashly Burch (Tiny Tina in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands)
- Christopher Judge (Kratos in God of War Ragnarok)
The best gaming community
- Dreams
- Final Fantasy 14
- GRID Legends
- No Man’s Sky
- Splatoon 3
- War frame
PC Game of the Year
- Neon White
- Return to Monkey Island
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Teardown
- Total War: Warhammer 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters
PlayStation Console Game of the Year
- Gran Turismo 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Stray
- ELDEN RING
- The Last of Us Part I
- Sifu
Nintendo Console Game of the Year
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Live A Live
- Splatoon 3
- Nintendo Switch Sports
Xbox Console Game of the Year
- Halo Infinite
- Scorn
- Grounded
- As Dusk Falls
- Sniper Elite 5
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
The best gaming hardware
- Playdate
- Steam Deck
- Analogue Pocket
- Backbone One: PlayStation Edition
- Roccat Kone XP
- WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5
Best Game Support Award
- Genshin Impact
- The Sims 4
- Destiny 2
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Minecraft
- Fortnite
- Pokémon GO
- Apex Legends
- Lost Ark
- The Elder Scrolls Online
Most Anticipated Game
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Dead Island 2
- The prophesied
- Street Fighter 6
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Starfield
- Exoprimal
- Redfall
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Mass Effect
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kerbal Space Program 2
- Dead Space
Game of the Year
- ELDEN RING
- Gran Turismo 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Immortality
- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
- God of War Ragnarok
- Return to Monkey Island
- Teardown
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Bayonetta 3
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
- Neon White
Since the Golden Joystick Awards ceremony traditionally takes place a month and a half before the end of the calendar year, games released between last fall and the current one are allowed in the nomination.