The Golden Joystick Awards have been voted on, with dozens of games eligible for awards in 17 categories.
The captain is Elden Ring. The FromSoft hit, which came out earlier this year, has been nominated in four categories; Best Multiplayer Game, Best Visual Design, PlayStation Game of the Year, and Developer Studio of the Year.
Horizon Forbidden West is one of the games with the second most nominations, with a nod for Best Storytelling alongside the PlayStation and Visual Design nominations it shares with Elden Ring. The show could also be a big night for Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy 14 has a shot at the Still Playing and Best Community awards (which it also won last year) and the Best Expansion award for Endwalker, but Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 will compete in the Most category sought.
It looks like it could be a big night for indie titles. Blocky heist game Teardown takes on a slew of other indies for PC game of the year, while a new category celebrating the best of early access gaming is filled with games that don’t necessarily have the backing of major studios.
Voting is now possible and closes on November 4. Shortly after, on November 7, the final category, Ultimate Game of the Year, will be voted on. The winner of that prestigious award, along with all other winners, will be announced at the Golden Joystick Awards ceremony on November 22. To view all the shortlists, look below and to cast your vote go here.
Best audio:
- We are OFK
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Metal: Hellsinger
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- Gran Turismo 7
- OlliOlli World
Best Storytelling:
- IMMORTALITY
- Return to Monkey Island
- Horizon Forbidden West
- NORCO
- I was a teenage exocolonist
- Quirky Beach
Dear gaming community:
- To dream
- Final Fantasy XIV
- GRID Legends
- No Man’s Sky
- Splatoon 3
- warframe
Best Game Expansion:
- 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 Gaming Hardware:
- date
- steam deck
- Analog pocket
- Backbone One: PlayStation Edition
- Roccat Kone XP
- WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5
Best indie game:
- Cult of the Lamb
- Tunic
- rollerdrome
- Dorfromantik
- neon white
- Cracks
Best Multiplayer Game:
- Elden Ring
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Sales
- 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 the game
Most wanted game:
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Dead Island 2
- pronounced
- Street Fighter 6
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Honkai: Star Rail
- starfield
- Exoprimal
- redfall
- Hogwarts Legacy
- The day before
- Mass effect
- Marvel’s Spider Man 2
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Kerbal Space Program 2
- Empty space
Nintendo Game of the Year:
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- live alive
- Splatoon 3
- Nintendo Switch Sports
PC game of the year:
- neon white
- Return to Monkey Island
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Cracks
- Total War: Warhammer 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters
PlayStation Game of the Year:
- Gran Turismo 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- strayed
- Elden Ring
- The Last Of Us Part I
- sifu
Xbox Game of the Year:
- Halo Infinite
- contempt
- grounded
- When dusk falls
- Sniper Elite 5
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
Still playing:
- Genshin impact
- The Sims 4
- Lot 2
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Minecraft
- Fortnite
- Pokemon GO
- Apex Legends
- lost ark
- The Elder Scrolls Online
Studio of the Year:
- roll7
- Terrible toy box
- Half Mermaid
- From Software Inc.
- Interior / Night
- Tribute Games
Best Early Access Launch:
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Slime Rancher 2
- Dune: Spice Wars
- core custodian
- 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 unveils trailer
- Time Flies Announcement Trailer
- Alan Wake 2 reveals trailer
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