2021 Video Game Awards Tracker
Here are the games released during 2021 that have won major industry awards or received nominations for those awards.
Recent updates:
Added Apr. 8: BAFTA winners
Added Mar. 24: GDC winners
Added Mar. 3: Awards tracker launched with all previously announced winners/nominees for 2021 and today's BAFTA nominations. Note that GDC winners will be added when announced in late March and BAFTA winners will be added when announced on April 7, 2022.
Key to awards:
[BAFTA] BAFTA Games Awards
[DICE] D.I.C.E. Awards (Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences)
[GDC] Game Developers Choice Awards
[MC] Metacritic Game of the Year (overall highest Metascore)
[NY] New York Game Awards
[TGA] The Game Awards
Wins in bold / nominations in regular text
Game of the Year
Deathloop - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, NY, TGA
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut - MC
Dorfromantik - NY
Forza Horizon 5 - BAFTA, GDC
Halo Infinite - NY
Inscryption - BAFTA, DICE, GDC
It Takes Two - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, TGA
Life Is Strange: True Colors - NY
Metroid Dread - NY, TGA
Psychonauts 2 - NY, TGA
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - BAFTA, DICE, TGA
Resident Evil Village - GDC, NY, TGA
Returnal - BAFTA, DICE
Indie Game of the Year
12 Minutes - TGA
Before I Forget - NY
Death's Door - DICE, NY, TGA
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights - NY
Genesis Noir - NY
Inscryption - DICE, TGA
Kena: Bridge of Spirits - TGA
Little Nightmares 2 - NY
Loop Hero - DICE, TGA
Sable - DICE, NY
Unpacking - DICE
Wildermyth - NY
Debut Game of the Year
The Artful Escape - BAFTA, GDC, TGA
Eastward - BAFTA
The Forgotten City - BAFTA, TGA
Genesis Noir - BAFTA
Kena: Bridge of Spirits - GDC, TGA
Maquette - BAFTA
Sable - GDC, TGA
Toem - BAFTA
Valheim - GDC, TGA
Wildermyth - GDC
Multiplayer/Online Game of the Year
Back 4 Blood - BAFTA, DICE, TGA
Call of Duty: Vanguard - BAFTA, DICE
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - DICE
Forza Horizon 5 - BAFTA
Halo Infinite - BAFTA, DICE
Hell Let Loose - BAFTA
It Takes Two - BAFTA, TGA
Knockout City - DICE, TGA
Monster Hunter Rise - TGA
New World - TGA
Valheim - TGA
Ongoing/Evolving Game of the Year
[Games first released prior to 2021 with new content added in 2021]
Among Us - BAFTA
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - BAFTA
Apex Legends - BAFTA, TGA
Call of Duty: Warzone - TGA
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut - BAFTA
Final Fantasy XIV Online - TGA
Fortnite - BAFTA, TGA
Genshin Impact - TGA
No Man's Sky - BAFTA
Best Story/Writing
Before Your Eyes - DICE
Chicken Police - Paint It Red! - NY
Deathloop - GDC, TGA
The Forgotten City - DICE
Inscryption - DICE
It Takes Two - BAFTA, GDC, TGA
Life Is Strange: True Colors - BAFTA, NY, TGA
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, NY, TGA
Persona 5 Strikers - NY
Psychonauts 2 - BAFTA, DICE, GDC, NY, TGA
Returnal - BAFTA
Strangeland - NY
Unpacking - BAFTA, GDC
Mobile Game of the Year
Behind the Frame - DICE
Crash on the Run - NY
Fantasian - DICE, NY, TGA
Genshin Impact - TGA
League of Legends: Wild Rift - DICE, TGA
Marvel Future Revolution - NY, TGA
Moncage - DICE
NieR Re[in]carnation - NY
Pikmin Bloom - NY
Pokémon Unite - DICE, TGA
Queen Rock Tour - NY
Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes - NY
AR/VR Game of the Year
Demeo - DICE
Floor Plan 2 - NY
Hitman 3 - TGA
I Expect You to Die 2 - DICE, TGA
Lone Echo II - DICE, TGA
Mare – Quest - NY
Ragnarock - NY
Resident Evil 4 VR - DICE, NY, TGA
Sniper Elite VR - TGA
Song in the Smoke - DICE
Traffic Jams - NY
Genre-specific awards
Action Game of the Year
The Ascent - DICE
Back 4 Blood- TGA
Chivalry II - TGA
Deathloop - DICE, TGA
Far Cry 6 - TGA
Halo Infinite - DICE
Metroid Dread - DICE
Returnal - DICE, TGA
Adventure (or Action-Adventure) Game of the Year
Death's Door - DICE
It Takes Two - DICE
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - DICE, TGA
Metroid Dread - TGA
Psychonauts 2 - DICE, TGA
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - TGA
Resident Evil: Village - DICE, TGA
Fighting Game of the Year
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles - TGA
Guilty Gear Strive - DICE, TGA
Melty Blood: Type Lumina - DICE, TGA
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl - DICE, TGA
Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown - TGA
Role-Playing Game of the Year
Cyberpunk 2077 - TGA
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - DICE
Monster Hunter Rise - TGA
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - DICE
Scarlet Nexus - TGA
Shin Megami Tensei V - DICE, TGA
Tales of Arise - DICE, TGA
Wildermyth - DICE
Simulation/Strategy Game of the Year
Age of Empires IV - DICE, TGA
Evil Genius 2: World Domination - TGA
Gloomhaven - DICE
Griftlands - DICE
Humankind - TGA
Inscryption - DICE, TGA
Loop Hero - DICE
Microsoft Flight Simulator - TGA
Sports/Racing Game of the Year
The Climb 2 - DICE
F1 2021 - DICE, TGA
FIFA 22- DICE, TGA
Forza Horizon 5 - DICE, TGA
Hot Wheels Unleashed- DICE, TGA
Mario Golf: Super Rush - DICE
NBA 2K22 - DICE
Riders Republic- DICE, TGA
Note that most awards organizations also honor games and creators in additional categories not listed above. We opted to concentrate on those categories that tend to recur most frequently among the different awards groups. In addition, we have omitted awards and organizations (such as the Golden Joystick Awards) that are determined solely by public voting, as well as any awards (like those theoretically handed out in the summer at E3) that don't primarliy correspond to the calendar year.
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