The 21st Annual Game Developers Choice Awards officially released the final list of nominees. Leading the pack are Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, and The Last of Us Part II, all of which received six nominations each. Meanwhile, Half-Life: Alyx received five nominations. All four are, of course, nominated for Game of the Year. Rounding up the Game of the Year nominees is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, also nominated for Best Design.
Winners are set to be announced and honored during the 2021 Game Developers Conference on July 21. It’s going to be purely online though and only those who are GDC 2021 pass-holders can watch the awards show.
While waiting for the event, you can reminisce about last year through the video below:
Here are this year’s awards and nominees:
- BEST AUDIO
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Doom Eternal (id Software/Bethesda Softworks)
- Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix)
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- BEST DEBUT
- Phasmophobia (Kinetic Games)
- Umurangi Generation (Origame Digital/Playism, Origame Digital)
- Carrion (Phobia Game Studio/Devolver Digital)
- Mortal Shell (Cold Symmetry/Playstack)
- Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nodding Heads Games/Super!Com)
- BEST DESIGN
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/ Nintendo)
- Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
- INNOVATION AWARD
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)
- Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
- Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- BEST MOBILE GAME
- The Pathless (Giant Squid/Annapurna Interactive)
- Genshin Impact (miHoYo)
- Legends of Runeterra (Riot Games)
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (ustwo/PID Publishing)
- If Found… (Dreamfeel/Annapurna Interactive)
- BEST NARRATIVE
- Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition (Cardboard Computer/Annapurna Interactive)
- Final Fantasy VII: Remake (Square Enix)
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- BEST TECHNOLOGY
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
- Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (Asobo Studio/Xbox Game Studios)
- BEST VISUAL ART
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Moon Studios/Xbox Game Studios/iam8bit)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED/CD Projekt)
- BEST VR/AR GAME
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (Skydance Interactive)
- Paper Beast (Pixel Reef)
- Dreams (Media Molecule/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
- Star Wars: Squadrons (Motive Studios/Electronic Arts)
- GAME OF THE YEAR
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo EPD/ Nintendo)
- The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Half-Life: Alyx (Valve)
- Hades (Supergiant Games)
- Ghost of Tsushima (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
So which are you rooting for?
