The Game Awards 2022 nominations: God of War Ragnarök, Elden Ring top list - Polygon

God of War Ragnarök which launched conscionable past week, leads The Game Awards 2022 with 10 nominations announced connected Monday, and FromSoftware’s Elden Ring is up for 7 astatine the Dec. 8 show, wherever fans volition observe the year’s champion games — and, of course, support an oculus connected each the trailers for things to travel successful 2023.

The game-of-the-year nominees see PlayStation exclusives God of War Ragnarök, Horizon Forbidden West, and Stray, alongside the Nintendo Switch-only Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and multiplatform launches Elden Ring and A Plague Tale: Requiem. All of the GOTY contenders are aggregate nominees successful different categories, too.

Who knows what volition adjacent retired the evening connected Dec. 8 with the GOTY announcement. The captious and commercialized reception for Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarök would look to enactment either successful the driver’s seat. And adjacent if The Game Awards’ biggest gully is each of the “World Premiere” trailers for games that haven’t yet launched, this is inactive an lawsuit for fans, truthful there’s plentifulness of instrumentality work and affirmation successful seeing your favourite rubric get a thumbs-up.

So, with that said, present are the nominees for The Game Awards 2022, airing Dec. 8 astatine 7:30 p.m. EST connected Twitch and YouTube.

Game of the Year

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Best Direction

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Narrative

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Immortality (Half Mermaid)

Best Art Direction

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

Best Score and Music

• Olivier Deriviere, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Tsukasa Saitoh, Elden Ring
• Bear McCreary, God of War Ragnarök
• Two Feathers, Metal: Hellsinger
• Yasunori Mitsuda, Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Audio

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

Best Performance (Actor)

• Ashly Burch, Horizon Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Christopher Judge, God of War Ragnarök
• Manon Gage, Immortality
• Sunny Suljic, God of War Ragnarök

Games for Impact award

• A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)
• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
• Endling — Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
• Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)

Best Ongoing Game

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

Best Independent Game

• Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)

Best Debut Indie Game

• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
• Norco (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)
• Vampire Survivors (poncle)

Best Community Support

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)
• Destiny 2 (Bungie)
• Final Fantasy 14 (Square Enix)
• Fortnite (Epic Games)
• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Best Mobile Game

• Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)
• Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)
• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)
• Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)
• Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)

Best Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Game

• After the Fall (Vertigo Games)
• Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)
• Bonelab (Stress Level Zero)
• Moss: Book 2 (Polyarc)
• Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)

Best Action Game

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)
• Sifu (Sloclap)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)
• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)
• Tunic (TUNIC Team/Finji)

Best Role-Playing Game

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)
• Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)
• Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

Best Fighting Game

• DNF Duel (Arc System Works/EIGHTING/NEOPLE/NEXON)
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)
• The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)
• MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
• Sifu (Sloclap)

Best Family Game

• 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 Game

• Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)
• Total War: Warhammer 3 (Creative Assembly/Sega)
• Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)
• Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)

Best Sports oregon Racing Game

• F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)
• FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)
• NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)
• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)
• OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)

Best Multiplayer Game

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Infinity Ward/Activision)
• MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)
• Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)
• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

Most Anticipated Game of 2023

• Final Fantasy 16 (Square Enix)
• Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)
• Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
• Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Content Creator of the Year

• Karl Jacobs
• Ludwig
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Best Adaptation

• Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)
• The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)
• Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)

Award for Innovation successful Accessibility

• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)
• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)
• Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
• The Last Of Us Part 1 (Naughty Dog/SIE)
• The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)

Best Esports Game

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)
• DOTA 2 (Valve)
• League of Legends (Riot Games)
• Rocket League (Psyonix)
• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

• 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)
• Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)

Best Esports Team

• DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
• FaZe Clan (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Gen.G (League of Legends)
• LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
• LOUD (Valorant)

Best Esports Coach

• Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
• Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (Loud, Valorant)
• 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

• EVO 2022
• 2022 League of Legends World Championship
• PGL Major Antwerp 2022
• The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational