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
▣ Chicory: A Colorful Tale - NY
▣ 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
▣ Chicory: A Colorful Tale - 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
▣ Resident Evil: Village - NY
▣ 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
▣ Star Wars Pinball VR- NY
▣ 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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