The Game Awards 2022 Nominations Sees God of War: Ragnarok Leading With 10 Awards Nods - IGN

Geoff Keighley has announced each nominee for The Game Awards 2022, with God of War: Ragnarok and Elden Ring starring the mode with 10 and 7 nominations respectively.

God of War: Ragnarok's nominations see Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design, 2 successful Best Performance, Best Action/Adventure, and Innovation In Accessibility.

Elden Ring saw a fig of akin nominations, including Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, Best Audio Design and Best RPG.

The afloat database of categories and nominations for The Game Awards 2022 are arsenic follows:

Game of the Year

Recognizing a crippled that delivers the implicit champion acquisition crossed each originative and method fields.

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Stray
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Game Direction

Awarded for outstanding originative imaginativeness and innovation successful crippled absorption and design.

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Immortality
• Stray

Best Narrative

For outstanding storytelling and communicative improvement successful a game.

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Immortality

Best Art Direction

For outstanding originative and/or method accomplishment successful creator plan and animation.

• Elden Ring
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Horizon: Forbidden West
• Scorn
• Stray

Best Score/Music

For outstanding music, inclusive of score, archetypal opus and/or licensed soundtrack.

• Olivier Deriviere - A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Tsukasa Saitoh - Elden Ring
• Bear McCreary - God of War: Ragnarok
• Two Feathers - Metal Hellsinger
• Yasunori Mitsuda

Best Audio Design

Recognizing the champion in-game audio and dependable design.

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Gran Turismo 7
• Horizon Forbidden West

Best Performance

Awarded to an idiosyncratic for voice-over acting, question and/or show capture.

• Ashly Birch - Horizon: Forbidden West
• Charlotte McBurney - A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Christopher Judge - God of War: Ragnarok
• Manon Gage - Immortality
• Sunny Suljic - God of War: Ragnarok

Games for Impact

For a thought-provoking crippled with a pro-social meaning oregon message.

• A Memoir Blue
• As Dusk Falls
• Citizen Sleeper
• Endling - Extinction is Forever
• Hindsight
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Best Ongoing Game

Awarded to a crippled for outstanding improvement of ongoing contented that evolves the subordinate acquisition implicit time.

• Apex Legends
• Destiny 2
• Final Fantasy 14 Online
• Fortnite
• Genshin Impact

Best Indie Game

For outstanding originative and method accomplishment successful a crippled made extracurricular the accepted steadfast system.

• Cult of the Lamb
• Neon White
• Sifu
• Stray
• TUNIC

Best Debut Indie Game

For the champion debut crippled created by a caller autarkic studio.

• Neon White
• NORCO
• Stray
• TUNIC
• Vampire Survivors

Best Mobile Game

For the champion crippled playable connected a mobile device.

• Apex Legends Mobile
• Diablo Immortal
• Genshin Impact
• Marvel Snap
• Tower of Fantasy

Best Community Support

Recognizing a crippled for outstanding assemblage support, transparency and responsiveness, inclusive of societal media enactment and crippled updates/patches.

• Apex Legends
• Destiny 2
• Final Fantasy 14 Online
• Fortnite
• No Man’s Sky

Best VR/AR Game

For the champion crippled acquisition playable successful virtual oregon augmented reality, irrespective of platform.

• After the Fall
• Among Us VR
• BONELAB
• Moss: Book II
• Red Matter 2

Innovation successful Accessibility

Recognizing bundle and/or hardware that is pushing the mean guardant by adding features, exertion and contented to assistance games beryllium played and enjoyed by an adjacent wider audience.

• As Dusk Falls
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Returnal
• Return to Monkey Island
• The Last of Us Part 1
• The Quarry

Best Action Game

For the champion crippled successful the enactment genre focused chiefly connected combat.

• Bayonetta 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
• Neon White
• Sifu
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Best Action/Adventure Game

For the champion action/adventure game, combining combat with traversal and puzzle solving.

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Stray
• TUNIC

Best RPG

For the champion crippled designed with affluent subordinate quality customization and progression, including massively multiplayer experiences.

• Elden Ring
• Live a Live
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus
• Triangle Strategy
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Fighting Game

For the champion crippled designed chiefly astir head-to-head combat.

• DNF Duel
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R
• The King of Fighters 15
• MultiVersus
• Sifu

Best Family Game

For the champion crippled due for household play, irrespective of genre oregon platform.

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Nintendo Switch Sports
• Splatoon 3

Best Sports/Racing Game

For the champion accepted and non-traditional sports and racing game.

• F1 22
• FIFA 23
• NBA 2K23
• Gran Turismo 7
• OlliOlli World

Best SIM/Strategy Game

Best crippled focused connected existent clip oregon turn-based simulation oregon strategy gameplay, irrespective of platform.

• Dune: Spice Wars
• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
• Total War: WARHAMMER 3
• Two Point Campus
• Victoria 3

Best Multiplayer Game

For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences, irrespective of crippled genre oregon platform.

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Multiversus
• Overwatch 2
• Splatoon 3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

Content Creator of the Year

For a streamer oregon contented creator who has made an important and affirmative interaction connected the assemblage successful 2021.

• Karl Jacobs
• Ludwig
• Nibellion
• Nobru
• QTCinderella

Best Esports Athlete

The esports jock judged to beryllium the astir outstanding for show and behaviour successful 2021, irrespective of game.

• Jeong "Chovy" Ji-hoon (Gen.G, LOL)
• Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL)
• Finn "karrigan" Andersen ( (FaZe Clan - CS:GO)
• Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
• Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)

Best Esports Coach

The Esports manager judged to beryllium the astir outstanding for show and behaviour successful 2021.

• Andrii "B1ad3" Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)
• Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)
• Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)
• Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)
• Go "Score" Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

Best Esports Event

Recognizing an lawsuit (across azygous oregon aggregate days) that delivered a best-of-class acquisition for participants and the broadcast audience.

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

Best Esports Game

For the crippled that has delivered the champion wide esports acquisition to players (inclusive of tournaments, assemblage enactment and contented updates), irrespective of genre oregon platform.

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• DOTA 2
• League of Legends
• Rocket League
• VALORANT

Best Esports Team

Recognizing a circumstantial esports squad (not the afloat organization) judged the astir outstanding for show and behaviour successful 2021.

• DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)
• FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
• Gen.G (League of Legends)
• LA Thieves (Call of Duty)
• LOUD (Valorant)

Most Anticipated Game

Recognizing an announced crippled that has demonstrably illustrated imaginable to propulsion the gaming mean forward.

• Final Fantasy 16
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Resident Evil 4
• Starfield
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Best Adaptation

Celebrating game-inspired projects crossed amusement including TV, movies, comics, and more.

• Arcane: League of Legends
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
• The Cuphead Show!
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Uncharted

The nationalist tin present ballot for the nominees they deliberation are astir deserving of each idiosyncratic grant connected The Game Awards website, with the awards ceremonial taking spot connected December 8.

Last year's awards saw It Takes Two instrumentality Game of the Year, portion Deathloop won Best Game Direction, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy won Best Narrative, and Final Fantasy 14 Online won Best Ongoing Game.

The Game Awards is besides a large root of video crippled announcements, caller trailers, and truthful on, with 2021's ceremonial hosting the uncover of Star Wars: Eclipse, Alan Wake 2, Wonder Women, and more.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.