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GDC Awards 2023: Full List of Winners and Honorable Mentions

Theorry

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Best Debut

  • Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive)
  • NORCO (Geography of Robots, Raw Fury)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)
  • Vampire Survivors (poncle)
Honourable Mentions: Chained Echoes (Matthias Linda, Deck13), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster, Devolver Digital), Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc., Nuverse), The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games, Playstack), Trombone Champ (Holy Wow Studios LLC)

Best Audio

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment) [WINNER]
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders, Funcom)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
Honourable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio, Focus Entertainment), Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive), Persona 5 Royal (ATLUS, SEGA), Splatoon 3 (Nintendo), TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)

Best Design

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment) [WINNER]
  • Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc., Nuverse)
  • Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)
Honourable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster, Devolver Digital), Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games, Kitfox Games), God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment), IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid), Vampire Survivors (poncle)

Best Narrative

  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games, Finji)
  • IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios) [WINNER]
  • Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox, Devolver Digital)
Honourable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio, Focus Entertainment), Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age, Fellow Traveller), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment), NORCO (Geography of Robots, Raw Fury), Roadwarden (Moral Anxiety Studio, Assemble Entertainment)

Best Technology

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio, Focus Entertainment)
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Beenox, Treyarch, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, Toys for Bob, Activision)
  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment) [WINNER]
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Honourable Mentions: Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games, Kitfox Games), Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Blackbird Interactive, Focus Entertainment), IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid), Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive), Teardown (Tuxedo Labs)

Best Visual Art

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment) [WINNER]
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
Honourable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio, Focus Entertainment), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster, Devolver Digital), Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive), OlliOlli World (Roll7, Private Division), TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)

Innovation Award

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid) [WINNER]
  • Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
Honourable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster, Devolver Digital), Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games, Kitfox Games), God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment), Trombone Champ (Holy Wow Studios LLC)

Social Impact Award

  • As Dusk Falls (INTERIOR/NIGHT, Xbox Game Studios)
  • Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age, Fellow Traveller) [WINNER]
  • Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios, HandyGames)
  • I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games, Finji)
  • OlliOlli World (Roll7, Private Division)
  • We Are OFK (Team OFK)
Honourable Mentions: Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games, Skybound Games), God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment), Hindsight (Team Hindsight, Annapurna Interactive), NORCO (Geography of Robots, Raw Fury), Terra Nil (Free Lives, Devolver Digital)

Audience Award

  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment) [WINNER]

Game of the Year

  • Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
  • God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
  • IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
  • Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
  • Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
  • TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)
Honourable Mentions: Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age, Fellow Traveller), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster, Devolver Digital), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment), Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc., Nuverse), Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive), Vampire Survivors (poncle)

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Messofanego

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That's a great list, no matter who won or not. Props for recognising Citizen Sleeper, We Are OFK, I Was A Teenage Exocolonist, Pentiment, Neon White, NORCO, and Stray.
 
Red Kong XIX

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Number of awards won:

Elden Ring: 3 (including GOTY)
God of War Ragnarök: 3
Pentiment: 1
IMMORTALITY: 1
Stray: 1
Citizen Sleeper: 1
 
GulfCoastZilla

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How did Stray beat Vampire Survivors as a new debut?
I feel like everyone couldn't stop talking about VS
 
lvl 99 Pixel

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Plague Tale is very honorable

edit: Everyone's still mad at the orange cat lol
VS is fun, but it also feels like pure stimulus. I need something a bit more meaningful.
 
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Red Kong XIX

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I would probably change the winner in the Technology category from God of War Ragnarök to Horizon Forbidden West.
 
GulfCoastZilla

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LumberPanda said:
I see everyone talking about Stray outside of my nerd bubbles, but only the ResetEra type of gamer was crazy about Vampire Survivors. So it depends who you're hanging out with.
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I only hear people online taking about Stray in a joking manner (starting with its VGC nom) never heard people talking about it before then.

Granted most of my friends I have offline only play COD and even then most of them play COD on last gen consoles.
 
Arithmetician

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Imagine nominating Elden Ring for best audio when they're still using the same crappy Demon's Souls sound library from 2009
 
MegaSackman

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Oct 27, 2017
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Surprised about Pentiment getting the award, it deserves it.

Also, I was thinking that Horizon should have gotten the technical award but I remember it came out with not a small amount of issues while God of War was almost perfect in that regard. In any case, not a big difference to believe the award is not deserved.

Really good list.
 
Devil

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Oct 25, 2017
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Bit sad that Sifu and Rollerdrome are not even mentioned anywhere. At least OlliOlli World gets some recognition.
 
Scottoest

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Stray being nominated in so many categories is ridiculous, but apart from that I can't argue with it.
 
jroc74

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RED_KONG_19 said:
I would probably change the winner in the Technology category from God of War Ragnarök to Horizon Forbidden West.
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This and audio. And on that note, I booted up Forbidden West last night and it still amazes me how good it looks.

Its a good list overall, alot of different types of games covered.

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i mean , everyone also couldnt stop talking about Stray.
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Yup. Launch day, week was especially wild, lol.
 
jett

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Oct 25, 2017
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Weird they just have a general best audio category but no best soundtrack.
 
TeenageFBI

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This is a pretty good list, except for Elden Ring being nominated for best technology of course.
 
Zyrox

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Bummer. Not even an honorable mention.
 
Shock32

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Oct 27, 2017
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God of war, Horizon, stray. A great year for games. I love just booting up Horizon just to roam the world. Can't wait for the DLC
 
Dega

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yup I'll never understand stray. I really only ever heard about it at its release while VS addicted so many people for up to a hundred+ hours and spawned tons of copies that we even have a thread here to catch them all. lol

I dunno
 
Linus815

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Dega said:
Yup I'll never understand stray. I really only ever heard about it at its release while VS addicted so many people for up to a hundred+ hours and spawned tons of copies that we even have a thread here to catch them all. lol

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these posts sound ridiculous, there is nothing to understand, lots of people like charming super well made cat game, a games quality isnt determined by its longevity
 
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Linus815 said:
these posts sound ridiculous, there is nothing to understand, lots of people like charming super well made cat game, a games quality isnt determined by its longevity
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Addiction being framed as the selling point is exactly why Stray took it. There was a lot more going on than sensory overload with pretty unappealing visuals. Games can be a lot more than gameplay.
 
LegalEagleMike

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Oct 25, 2017
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As someone who recently ruined their sleep schedule to finish Pentiment I am happy to see it get much deserved recognition.
 
AvianAviator

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Now that I've actually played Tunic, it's kind of incredible to see how much it was snubbed. I had my issues with it, but it's a remarkable game with so much depth.
 
Huey

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Oct 27, 2017
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Wish these awards got even 1/4 of the attention of Keighley's show - much more important metric imo

Great list and congrats to the winners and nominees
 
nelsonroyale

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I am baffled how GoW Ragnarok can't get tech awards over Horizon FW. It is a beautiful crafted game and the animations are fantastic, but graphically Horizon is just a step up. Better rendered characters outside of the main cast, more geometry in environmental rendering, more impressive lighting, much bigger scale, better LoD system.
 
M3z_

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Happy for Immortality, that team is fantastic and the cast was brilliant
 
Azerth

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props to josh sawyer for using his speech to call out gdc.
 
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