The Game Awards 2022: every game announced and all the award winners

The Game Awards 2022 gave us a ton of exclusive reveals, including several big hitters and a few surprises

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The Game Awards 2022 winners have been announced and new games (many likely to be winners at next year’s nominees) were unveiled for the first time.

Over 40 new video games were teased during The Game Awards broadcast hosted by Geoff Keighley, ranging from little-known indies looking to splash onto the scene, to major triple-A releases we’ve been eagerly awaiting for years.

Hades 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, The Last of Us: Part 1 for PC, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy 16 – there was no shortage of delights. In fact, The Games Awards 2022 might have even surpassed Summer Game Fest 2022 and Gamescom 2022 for the number of surprises.

On the awards front, several of the best PS5 games and best Xbox Series X games were decorated, with Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok winning big. Find every game that was revealed and all the awards that were given away below.

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The Game Awards 2022 announcements 👀

The Game Awards 2022 announcements did not disappoint (and there were very few leaks this time around). Among the several expected newsmakers were a few big surprises and long-anticipated reveals. Major names returned and new titles piqued our interest. Here’s a Game Awards recap of every game that was revealed:

• 🧬 Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania kicked off the night. It’s a mash-up of the two series, and probably the closest thing we’ll get to a new Castlevania game for a long time.

• 🧛‍♂️ Vampire Survivors mobile was shown next. It’s the same roguelite auto-bullet-hell that’s made waves this past year, but now on mobile – for free!

• 🪖 Valiant Hearts Coming Home is a sequel to Ubisoft’s touching WW1 narrative puzzle game. It’s being made by Netflix and will be released on mobile.

• 👽 Returnal’s PC port was finally officially confirmed after months of leaks and speculation. The sci-fi roguelike is due out early 2023.

• 😈 Hellboy: Web of Wyrd throws the dehorned demon into a roguelite adventure (yep, another one) illustrated in a comic book style.

• 🗻 Horizon Call of the Mountain got another preview. It’s one of the most hotly anticipated PSVR 2 games and is set to release along with Sony’s new-gen headset on February 22.

• 😱 Post Trauma looks like a horror game heavily inspired by Silent Hill, even aping its fixed corner-of-the-room camera angles.

• 📸 Viewfinder is a nifty puzzle game that lets you reshape and mold the world around you using photographs. It’s been picked up by PlayStation and got a short preview trailer.

• 🫥 Among Us is getting a new game mode Hide n Seek, which is basically exactly what it sounds like, only with crew tasks and monstrous imposters.

• 🌟 After Us was revealed as a new magical PlayStation platformer. It’s coming to PlayStation 5 next year, so secure PS5 restock when you can.

• 🦾 Replaced is a side-scrolling platformer set in what looks like a cyberpunk world. It’ll be coming to loads of platforms, including Xbox Game Pass in 2023.

• 👊 Street Fighter 6 threw down another trailer. We got a look at Dee Jay, Manon and Marisa. The next entry in the classic fighting game is out June 2, 2023.

• 🔥 Hades 2 surprised us all. A sequel to Supergiant Games’ acclaimed roguelite dungeon-crawler, it’ll leave Zagreus behind to follow the Princess of the Underworld.

• 🚀 Judas is the next game from BioShock creator Ken Levine. It’s been a long time coming, and looks distinctly, well, similar to BioShock.

• 🧙 Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon probably wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card. The origins story of the Umbra Witch is coming to Nintendo Switch on March 17, 2023.

• 👻 Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord is a new VR game coming to PSVR 2 and Meta Quest 2 in 2023. Let’s hope its gameplay is more original than its subtitle.

• 🔫 Destiny 2: Lightfall is the next expansion for the looty-shooty live service game. The trailer showed off a few tanks as well as lots and lots (and lots) of colorful lighting effects.

• 🦹 Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League made an appearance after nearly several months of silence. The new trailer showed off an evil Batman ahead of the games’ release on May 26, 2023.

• 😲 The Last of Us: Part 1 is coming to PC. We raved about the game in our The Last of Us: Part 1 review, but will be excited to have the choice of playing it on a gaming rig instead of console.

• ⭐ Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was officially revealed in a trailer showing a bearded Cal Kestis and several new characters. It’s set to release on March 17, 2023.

• 🏞️ Earthblade is the new game from the creators of Celeste. Another side-scrolling platformer, it'll be hitting virtual shelves sometime in 2024.

• 🩴 Dune Awakening is a new survival MMO set on the sandy surface of Arrakis. It’ll involve the usual shelter building and resource gathering, although we’ve no release date just yet.

• 🪄 Forspoken received a fresh trailer alongside a PlayStation demo. For now, it’s still due to come out on January 24, 2023.

• 🏃‍♀️ Death Stranding 2 has been officially confirmed! The sequel to Hideo Kojima’s divisive 2019 strand-type game post-apocalyptic epic didn’t get a release date. Even its final title hasn’t been confirmed.

• 🧙 Immortals of Aveum is a new single-player, first-person spell-slinging shooter. It’ll release on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and PC.

• 🥷 Tekken 8 got a new gameplay teaser confirming the return of multiple series characters including Jun Kazama.

• 🧌 Nightingale showed off its creepy cosmic horror Victorian world. The PvE open-world survival game is set to launch in early access in the first half of 2023.

• 🐲 Baldur’s Gate 3 was finally given a precise release window of August 2023. Fan-favorite series character Minsc will also return.

• 🔮 Wayfinder is an online action RPG set in a magical fantasy world. Expect lots of guns, weapons and weird monsters.

• ❤️‍🔥 Fire Emblem Engage – expansion pass is the first of four DLC packs coming to the game. It’ll release on the game’s launch on January 20, 2023.

• ⚔️ Diablo 4 received a new trailer announcing the infernal action RPG will be releasing June 6, 2023.

• 🌊 Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is the first expansion for Aloy’s sequel. It’ll only be coming to PS5, though.

• 🥹 Blue Protocol is a free-to-play anime MMO by Bandai Namco that’ll be published next year by Amazon.

• 🐙 Remnant 2 is a co-op third-person shooter and sequel to the beloved, if fairly overlooked, Remnant: From the Ashes.

• 🚙 Transformers: Reactive will be the next video game to star, er, big transforming vehicular robots. This time, the license is going co-op.

• 🍄 The Super Mario Bros. Movie got a fresh clip focusing on Mario and Toad as they explore the Mushroom Kingdom.

• 🌲 Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is another action RPG. It focuses on a pair of ghost hunters in 17th-century North America.

• 🔨 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is an unexpected but wholly welcome sequel due out 2023. You’ll don the power armor of an Ultramarine to rip, tear and bolter your way through hordes of Tyranids.

• 🛖 Meet your Maker is a sandbox game about building outposts and raiding the edifices of others. It’ll be coming to Xbox consoles and PC on April 4, 2023.

• 🐇 Crash Team Rumble drops the mischievous bandicoot and pals into 4v4 arena fights. It’s being developed by Toys for Bob, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot 4.

• 🤺 The Lords of the Fallen is a dark fantasy RPG with soulslike combat. Expect lots of magical powers and a full co-op campaign.

• 💰 Crime Boss: Rockay City stars Michael Madsen, Chuck Norris, Danny Glover and other actors in a co-op FPS crime shooter.

• 🤖 Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is the first expansion for CD Projekt Red’s wobbling RPG and will star Idris Elba.

• 🦿 Armored Core 6 Fires of Rubicon surprised many. It’ll revive FromSoftware’s long-dormant mecha shooter series. So far, no river crossing has been confirmed.

• 😳 Final Fantasy 16 was confirmed to be releasing on June 22, 2023. It’ll be one of the biggest releases of next year.

The Game Awards 2022 winners and nominees 🏆

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While millions of people tuned into The Game Awards 2022 to catch the exclusive announcements and reveals, plenty of awards were given away, too. Elden Ring and God of War Ragnarok were the biggest winners of the night, scooping up awards in multiple categories.

Game of the Year

• 🐀 A Plague Tale: Requiem

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏹 Horizon Forbidden West

• 🐱 Stray

• 🗡️ Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Game Direction

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏹 Horizon Forbidden West

• 🪞 Immortality

• 🐱 Stray

Best Narrative

• 🐀 A Plague Tale: Requiem

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏹 Horizon Forbidden West

• 🪞 Immortality

Best Art Direction

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏹 Horizon Forbidden West

• 🦴 Scorn

• 🐱 Stray

Best Score and Music

• 🐀 A Plague Tale: Requiem

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🤘 Metal: Hellsinger

• 🗡️ Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best Audio Design

• 🔫 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏎️ Gran Turismo 7

• 🏹 Horizon Forbidden West

Best Performance

• 🏹 Ashly Burch in Horizon Forbidden West

• 🐀 Charlotte McBurney in A Plague Tale: Requiem

• 🪓 Christopher Judge in God of War Ragnarok

• 🪞 Manon Gage in Immortality

• 🪓 Sunny Suljic in God of War Ragnarok

Games for impact

• 💙 A Memoir Blue

• 🌇 As Dusk Falls

• 😴 Citizen Sleeper

• 🦊 Endling – Extinction is Forever

• 👀 Hindsight

• 👦🏻 I Was A Teenage Exocolonist

Best ongoing

• 🤖 Apex Legends

• 🌑 Destiny 2

• ⚔️ Final Fantasy 14

• 🪂 Fortnite

• 🦄 Genshin Impact

Best indie

• 🐑 Cult of the Lamb

• 🃏 Neon White

• 👊 Sifu

• 🐱 Stray

• 🦊 Tunic

Best mobile game

• 🤖 Apex Legends Mobile

• 😈 Diablo Immortal

• 🦄 Genshin Impact

• 🦸 Marvel Snap

• 🗼 Tower of Fantasy

Best community support

• 🤖 Apex Legends

• 🌑 Destiny 2

• ⚔️ Final Fantasy 14

• 🪂 Fortnite

• 👩‍🚀 No Man’s Sky

Innovation in accessibility

• 🌇 As Dusk Falls

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏴‍☠️ Return to Monkey Island

• 🦒 The Last of Us Part 1

• 😱 The Quarry

Best VR/AR

• 🍂 After the Fall

• 🫵 Among Us VR

• 🔫 Bonelab

• 🐭 Moss: Book 2

• 🔭 Red Matter 2

Best action game

• 👠 Bayonetta 3

• 🔫 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• 🃏 Neon White

• 👊 Sifu

• 🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Best action/adventure

• 🐀 A Plague Tale: Requiem

• 🪓 God of War Ragnarok

• 🏹 Horizon Forbidden West

• 🐱 Stray

• 🦊 Tunic

Best roleplaying

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🤠 Live A Live

• 🍬 Pokémon Legends: Arceus

• 🔺 Triangle Strategy

• 🗡️ Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Best fighting

• 🤺 DNF Duel

• 🤪 Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R

• 👑 The King of Fighters XV

• 🥊 Multiversus

• 👊 Sifu

Best family

• 💗 Kirby and the Forgotten Land

• 🧱 LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

• 🍄 Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

• 🎾 Nintendo Switch Sports

• 🦑 Splatoon 3

Best sim/strategy

• 🏝️ Dune: Spice Wars

• 🍄 Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

• 🔨 Total War: Warhammer 3

• 🚌 Two Point Campus

• ⚓️ Victoria 3

Best sports/racing

• 🏎️ F1 22

• ⚽️ FIFA 23

• 🏀 NBA 2K23

• 🚘 Gran Turismo 7

• 🛹 OlliOlli World

Best multiplayer

• 🔫 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• 🥊 Multiversus

• 🦍 Overwatch 2

• 🦑 Splatoon 3

• 🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Best debut indie

• 🃏 Neon White

• 🖱️ Norco

• 🐱 Stray

• 🦊 Tunic

• 🧛‍♀️ Vampire Survivors

How to rewatch The Game Awards 2022 📺

If you didn’t catch the show live, you can rewatch The Game Awards 2022 over on the event’s official YouTube channel.