The Game Awards 2018 - All Nominees Revealed

[vestan]

Full list of nominations including e-Sports awards here: https://thegameawards.com/awards/
FAQ: https://thegameawards.com/faq-rules/

Q: Who selects the nominees for The Game Awards?
A: Nominees for The Game Awards are chosen by an international jury of 69 global media and influencer outlets, selected for their history of critical evaluation of video games. Each outlet completes a confidential, unranked ballot based on the collective and diverse opinion of its entire editorial staff, listing out its top five choices in each category. These ballots are tabulated, and the five games that appear on the most ballots are put forth as nominees. In the event of a tie, six (or more) nominees will be announced in a category.

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Most Nominated Games:

With eight nominations:
God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

With seven nominations:
Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)

With four nominations:
Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)

With three nominations:
Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch Studios / Activision)
Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
Octopath Traveler (Square Enix / Acquire / Nintendo)
Fortnite (Epic Games)

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Game of the Year:

- Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
- God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
- Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
- Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

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Best Action Game:

- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch / Activision)
- Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
- Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie / Activision)
- Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
- Mega Man 11 (Capcom)

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Best Action/Adventure Game:

- Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
- God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
- Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Eidos Montreal / Crystal Dynamics / Square Enix)

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Best Role Playing Game:

-Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Square Enix / Square Enix)
-Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
-Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Level 5 / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
-Octopath Traveler (Square Enix / Acquire / Nintendo)
-Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire (Obsidian Entertainment / Versus Evil)

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Best Fighting Game:

- BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (Arc System Works)
- Dragon Ball FighterZ (Arc System Works / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
- Soul Calibur VI (Bandai Namco Studios / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
- Street Fighter V Arcade (Dimps / Capcom)

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Best Family Game:

-Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning / Nintendo)
-Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
-Overcooked 2 (Ghost Town Games / Team 17)
-Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Ubisoft Toronto / Ubisoft)
-Super Mario Party (NDCube / Nintendo)

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Best VR/AR Game:

- ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission (SIE Japan Studio / SIE)
- Beat Saber (Beat Games)
- Firewall Zero Hour (First Contact Entertainment / SIE)
- Moss (Polyarc Games)
- Tetris Effect (Resonair / Enhance, Inc)

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Best Mobile Game:

- Donut County (Ben Esposito / Annapurna Interactive)
- Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- PUBG MOBILE (Lightspeed & Quantum / Tencent Games)
- Reigns: Game of Thrones (Nerial / Developer Digital)

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Best Strategy Game:

- BATTLETECH (Harebrained Schemes / Paradox Interactive
- Frostpunk (11 bit studios)
- Into the Breach (Subset Games)
- The Banner Saga 3 (Stoic Studio / Versus Evil)
- Valkyria Chronicles 4 (Sega CS3 / Sega)

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Games For Impact:

- 11-11 Memories Retold (Digixart / Aardman Animations / BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment)
- Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
- Florence (Mountains / Annapurna Interactive)
- Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
- The Missing: JJ Macfield and the Island of Memories (White Owls / Arc System Works)

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Best Game Direction:

- A Way Out (Hazelight Studios / EA)
- Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
- God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
- Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

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Best Narrative:

- Detroit: Become Human (Quantic Dream / SIE)
- God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
- Life is Strange 2: Episode 1 (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
- Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

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Best Art Direction:

- Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Ubisoft Quebec / Ubisoft)
- God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
- Octopath Traveler (Square Enix / Acquire / Nintendo)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
- Return of Obra Din (3909 LLC)

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Best Independent Game:

-Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
-Dead Cells (Motion Twin)
-Into the Breach (Subset Games)
-Return of the Obra Dinn (3909 LLC)
-The Messenger (Sabotage Studio)

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Best Sports/Racing:

-FIFA 19 (EA Vancouver / EA Sports)
-Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
-Mario Tennis Aces (Camelot Software Planning / Nintendo)
-NBA 2K19 (Visual Concepts / 2K Sports)
-Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (PES Productions / Konami)

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Best Multiplayer Game:

-Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch / Activision)
-Destiny 2: Forsaken (Bungie / Activision)
-Fortnite (Epic Games)
-Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
-Sea of Thieves (Rare / Microsoft Studios)

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Best Ongoing Game:

- Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
- Fortnite (Epic Games)
- No Man's Sky (Hello Games)
- Overwatch (Blizzard)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)

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Best Score/Music:

- Celeste (Lena Raine)
- God of War (Bear McCreary)
- Marvel's Spider-Man (John Paesano)
- Ni No Kuni II (Joe Hisaishi)
- Octopath Traveler (Yasunori Nishiki)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Woody Jackson)

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Best Audio Design:

- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (Treyarch Studios / Activision)
- Forza Horizon 4 (Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
- God of War (Sony Santa Monica / SIE)
- Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / SIE)
- Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)

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Best Performance:

- Christopher Judge as Kratos (God of War)
- Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2)
- Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker (Spider-Man)
- Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra (Assassin's Creed Odyssey)
- Bryan Dechart as Connor (Detroit: Become Human)

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Best Content Creator:

- Ninja
- Pokimane
- Dr. Lupo
- Myth
- Willyrex

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[Nirolak]

I'm surprised Celeste actually made it, but glad it did.

Edit:

Oh, there are six nominees this year. Okay, that's a bit less surprising then.

 

[mrmickfran]

Red Dead was Robbed

 

[Deleted member 249]

I'm rooting for Monster Hunter World. So glad it got the nod, if nothing else.

 

[v_iHuGi]

Rdr2????

 

[SnatcherHunter]

Hahaha
No RDR2


This is funny now.

 

[Mcfrank]

Red Dead was Robbed

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Its a nominee

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

From those game, Celeste and MHW win easily.


DRAGON QUEST XI WAS ROBBED!

 

[Apollo]

Celeste being on the list is wonderful.

 

[Deleted member 249]

EDIT: oh, it did.

 

[TheInfinityGauntlet]

Pleasantly surprised they remembered Monster Hunter

Hahaha
No RDR2


This is funny now.

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?????

 

[vestan]

Rdr2????

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Hahaha
No RDR2


This is funny now.

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It's up there actually my bad, slipped up.

 

[Smokeymicpot]

Hahaha
No RDR2


This is funny now.

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Red Dead is on that list.

 

[Knight613]

Would be amazing if Celeste beat everything there.

 

[mrmickfran]

Its a nominee

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I know, it's just funny that it wasn't in the OP

 

[Deleted member 2791]

woah congrats for Celeste
voting for them

 

[Doomshroom]

Astrobot?

 

[nStruct]

That is a list of good video games. My favorite on that particular list is God of War.

 

[SantaC]

Hahaha
No RDR2


This is funny now.

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It is right there

 

[SnatcherHunter]

It's up there actually my bad, slipped up.

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Ah okay!

Fixed.

 

[Deleted member 37233]

Yes! Octopath Traveler is nominated for music and art direction!

I'm happy.

 

[Euron]

Glad to see Celeste made it. It drives me absolutely insane sometimes but it's so well made and the soundtrack is awesome.

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deltarune is the real GOTY though

 

[fluffydelusions]

Hoping for a eshop sale for celeste

 

[SurrenderDorothy]

People thought that RDR2 wasn't in?
You need to have more faith, fellers.

 

[Theorry]

Racing games still not getting the recognition.
But then to see AC and Monster Hunter on the list. I mean good games but GOTY?

 

[B.O.O.M.]

Astro bot was robbed!???

Go God of War

 

[Duffking]

Give it to Celeste, because let's be honest it was the best and it'll be funny to see the meltdown too.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Heh, people freaking out so quickly. Now I wish RDR2 actually wasn't nominated.

 

[iksenpets]

Awesome to see Celeste making the cut.

 

[TheAggroCraig]

Congrats to God of War

 

[The Last One]

Voting for God of War. Game of the generation.

 

[OMEGALUL]

Assassin's Creed Odyssey? What the fuck?

 

[Lump]

No Tetris Effect? Already a blasphemous list.

Of that list, I think God of War is the winner.

 

[KtotheRoc]

Spider-Man doesn't have a chance, does it?

 

[Nairume]

Oh, hey, they dumped the trending gamer of the year award for a Content Creator of the Year award.

 

[doublechocochip]

Voting for Spider-Man

 

[Cess007]

Astrobot is taking the VR Award sooo easy, I feel.

Also, lack of Yakuza games on narrative category will always be a frigging crime.

Edit. Didn't realize Tetris Effect was there too. Oh boy, now the competition will be good

 

[SnatcherHunter]

It is right there

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It wasn't earlier.

 

[Muffin]

God of War needs this.

 

[Apollo]

Yes! Octopath Traveler is nominated for music and art direction!

I'm happy.

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Octopath would be so incredibly deserving of the award for its music. Just an unbelievable score.

 

[Ascenion]

What the hell is odyssey doing on this list?

 

[Jawmuncher]

That list of nominees accurately reflects how much of a bummer this year was for me and my tastes. I literally don't care who wins out of that list.

 

[Mimosa97]

How good is Odyssey? Lots of people seem to enjoy it

 

[Chase]

Happy to see Celeste! Didn't think that would make it.

 

[Kiekura]

The amount of nominations RDR2, God of War and Spider-Man have! Ridiculous :D

 

[Wise]

Rooting for God of War

 

[FHIZ]

Odyssey is so bloated and derivative of Origins I have a hard time seeing how anyone could argue it as GOTY. Celeste getting the nod is cool though... but let's just give everything to Red Dead like we know is going to happen and get to the announce trailers lol

 

[R.T Straker]

Glad to see Celeste up there in so many categories.

Deserves it, my personal GOTY.

 

[DHR54]

Easily God of War.

 

[Stoof]

Celeste is so fucking good. I hope it wins because that'd be so cool for the dev.