The Golden Joystick Awards is the world’s longest-running video game awards ceremony, hosted by game media publisher Future. It is a People’s Choice awards ceremony which means that the winners of the categories are determined entirely by public vote. Two Australian games have been nominated for the Golden Joystick Awards 2022: Quirky Beachthe narrative game set on a floating airship, and Cult of the Lambthe hybrid game that crawls dungeons and builds colonies.
Quirky Beach (Ghost Pattern) is nominated for Best storytellingin addition to titles both large (Horizon Forbidden West) and small (Immortality, NORCO, Return to Monkey Island)
Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster) has been nominated forr Dear Indie against games like Tunic, rollerdromeand neon whitelike Best Visual Designagainst games like Elden Ring and Ghostwire: Tokyo.
In addition, Hollow Knight: Silksong (Team Cherry) is nominated for Most wanted game.
It’s heartwarming to see Australian-made games included among the staggering number of big-budget international titles leading the nominations. If you want to support them, please consider voting.
How to Vote in the Golden Joystick Awards 2022
Voting in the 2022 Golden Joystick Awards can be done by visiting the voting page hosted on GameMe, where you will be asked to vote in all categories.
Voting for the awards closed on Nov 4, 2022.
Full List of Finalists for the Golden Joystick Awards 2022
The full list of finalists comes courtesy of GameMe:
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
Best game 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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