And now, your nominees for PC Gamer’s 2022 GOTY awards. [rips open an oversized novelty envelope]
- Card Shark
- Citizen Sleeper
- Future 2: The Witch Queen
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Dome Keeper
- Dorfromantik
- Dwarf Fortress
- Elden Ring
- God of Conflict
- Grounded
- Immortality
- Marvel’s Midnight Suns
- Monster Hunter Rise
- MultiVersus
- Neon White
- Overwatch 2
- Persona 5 Royal
- Roadwarden
- Scorn
- Unusual Horticulture
- Stray
- Teardown
- The Case of the Golden Idol
- The Excavation of Hob’s Barrow
- Complete Conflict: Warhammer 3
- Trombone Champ
- Tunic
- Vampire Survivors
- Bizarre West
- Wordle
[turns the oversized envelope upside-down, shakes it to make sure it’s empty]
These 30 video games drew essentially the most dialogue and curiosity from our panel of greater than two dozen PC Gamer editors. A few of them will get awards, revealed first within the subsequent difficulty of PC Gamer, which you’ll subscribe to at below $4 per difficulty within the US.
If 2023 had a theme, it was its status unbiased video games. In Neon White, Bizarre West, Immortality, Citizen Sleeper, Dwarf Fortress, and Vampire Survivors, we noticed small studios going off-genre to make unique, fascinating video games. This wasn’t one other 12 months where a development like roguelikes made up a disproportionate quantity of the indie output.
Preserve your browser tuned to pcgamer.com as we put together to disclose a brand new award winner every day by the top of the 12 months, starting subsequent week.