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The Game Awards 2021 Winners
// News // 10th Dec 2021 — 4 years ago // By Artura Dawn

The Game Awards 2021 Winners

We all look forward to this time of year. Some may look forward to it due to the holiday season, some due to the promise of a new upcoming year, and others like me look forward to it because of the Game of the Year awards given by so many different companies — most notably, The Game Awards.

Well, I sat down, cooked some delicious food and watched the four hours worth of content to bring you all of the winners for The Game Award's Game of the Year Livestream!

Games for Impact

This category rewards the games with the most thought-provoking and pro-social meaning or message within its narrative. The nominees were:

And the winner for this year's Games for Impact award was none other than Life is Strange: True Colors!

Reddit's Choice Game of the Year

This category has many members of the community in r/gaming voting among all of the nominees. With 11.2k votes, the nominees were:

Resident Evil Village took the Game of the Year community edition with a vast majority voting, 1.4k votes higher than the second runner up title It Takes Two.

Best Esports Athlete

Up next are some esports awards, starting off with Best Esports Athlete. They will be judged to be the most outstanding for their performance and conduct in 2021, irrespective of the game. The nominees are:

  • Chris "Simp" Lehr
  • Heo "ShowMaker" Su
  • Magomeo "Collapse" Khalilkov
  • Oleksandr "S1mple" Kostyliev
  • Tyson "TenZ" Ngo

And the award went to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's S1mple!

Best Esports team

The award recognising an esports team (not the full organization) that is judged by the most outstanding for performance and conduct in 2021. The nominees are:

  • Atlanta FaZe
  • DWG KIA
  • Natus Vincere
  • Sentinels
  • Team Spirit

The winning team as this year's best eSports team was Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Natus Vincere!

Best Esports Coach

Best esports Coach will be judged for the most outstanding for their performance and conduct throughout the year of 2021. The nominees were:

  • Airat "Silent" Gaziev
  • Andrey "Engh" Sholokhov
  • Andrii "B1ad3" Horodenskyi
  • James "Crowder" Crowder
  • Kim "kkOma" Jeong-gyun

And the winner for this year's best esports Coach was none other than the head coach for DWG KIA, kkOma!

Best Esports Event

The award for Best Esports Event recognizes an event that spans a single or multiple days that delivered the best-of-class experience for participants and the broadcast audience alike. The nominees for this year were:

This year's Best Esports Event was none other than 2021 League of Legends Championship!

Best Audio Design

A big part of game development nowadays is audio design, which is very important to make any experience feel whole, unique, and immersive. This award recognizes the best in-game audio and sound design. The nominees for this category were:

And the winner for the best sound design of 2021 went to none other than Forza Horizon 5!

Best Indie Game

2021 was a great year for indie games, and this award is given for outstanding creative and technical achievements in a game made outside of the traditional publisher system. All of the nominees for 2021 were:

And the winner for this year's best independent game was none other than Ember Labs' Kena: Bridge of Spirits!

Best Debut Indie Game

Newcomers are always welcomed and encouraged to participate, and this award is given to the best debut game created by a brand-new independent studio. The nominees for this year are:

This award also went to Kena: Bridge of Spirits for their outstanding cinematic experience game!

Best Performance

Videogames are slowly becoming more and more of an art form, and as such some require actors to play the role as best as possible. This award is given to an individual for voice-over acting, motion, and/or performance capture, and the nominees for 2021 were:

  • Erika Mori as Alex Chen
  • Giancarlo Esposito as Antón Castillo
  • Jason Kelley as Colt Vahn
  • Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu
  • Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake

And the award for best performance went to none other than everyone's favourite 9-foot-tall vampire, Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu!

Best Action Game

Action is a very integral part of some videogames, and this award seeks to reward the best one that is primarily focused on combat. The nominees for this year are:

And the winner for this year's Best Action Game went to Returnal!

Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction is an award given to games for their outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation. The nominees for this year were:

And the winner this year wasDEATHLOOP!

Player's Voice

Player's Voice is 100% a fan-voted category. The award for Game of the Year's nominees were:

And winning by a staggering amount was Halo Infinite!

Best Role Playing

Role Playing Games are built around rich player character customisation and progression; this award is given to the games that excelled at offering these to players. The nominees were:

And the winner for Best Role Playing Game of 2021 was Tales of Arise!

Best Score and Music

Music is becoming an integral part of gaming as well, and this award looks to reward videogames for outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song, and/or licensed soundtrack. This year's nominees were:

And the winner was NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...!

Content Creator of the Year

This award is given to any streamer or content creator that made a positive impact throughout the year. The nominees for this year were:

  • Dream
  • Fuslie
  • Gaules
  • Ibai
  • Grefg

And the winner for this year's Best Content Creator went to Dream!

Best Multiplayer Game

This award is given to any game that includes outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, which includes co-op and massively multiplayer experiences. The nominees for this year were:

This year's winner for best multiplayer went to none other than It Takes Two!

Best Mobile Game

Mobile games continue growing exponentially throughout the years and are slowly becoming a more valid way of gaming. This award seeks to award the most outstanding one in this category, and this year's nominees were:

This year's winner for the best mobile game went to Genshin Impact!

Best Narrative

The Best Narrative award is given for most outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game. This year's nominees were:

And the winner for Best Narrative for the year of 2021 was Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy!

Best Action-Adventure Game

This award is given to the game that best made a combination of the combat in action along with traversal, exploration, and puzzle-solving of adventure games. This year's nominees were:

This year's best action-adventure game went to Nintendo's Metroid Dread!

Best On-Going Game

This award is given to a game for its outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time. The nominees for this year were:

And the winner for this year's Best Ongoing Game went to Final Fantasy XIV!

Community Support

Community support is imperative for any live-service game, and this award aims to recognize games for their outstanding community support, transparency, and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches. The nominees for this year were:

And the winner for Best Community Support was none other than Final Fantasy XIV!

Innovation in Accessibility

Innovation in Accessibility is an award that is aimed at rewarding games for offering the best experience to anyone with a disability that is incapable of enjoying videogames like most people by adding features, technology, and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience. The nominees for this year were:

The winner for this year's award went to Forza Horizon 5!

Best Game Direction

The Best Game Direction award is given for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design. The nominees for this year were:

And the winner for this year's Best Game Direction wasDEATHLOOP!

Best Esports Game

The game that offers the best overall esports experience to players, including tournaments, community support, and content updates receives yearly the Best Esports Game Award. This year's nominees were:

  • Call of Duty
  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  • Dota 2
  • League of Legends
  • VALORANT

And the winner for this year's Best Esports Game was none other than League of Legends!

Best Family Game

Best Family Game is an award given to the best game that is appropriate for a family to play such as parents with their children. The nominees for this year are:

The award for Best Family Game goes to It Takes Two!

Best Fighting Game

Best Fighting Game is an award given to the title that has the best mechanics and gameplay based primarily around head-to-head combat. The nominees for this year were:

And the Best Fighting Game of the Year award went to Guilty Gear -Strive-!

Best Sim/Strategy

The Best Sim/Strategy award focuses all of its love to the games that had the best real-time or turn-based simulation or strategy gameplay. This year's nominees were:

And the winner for the Best Sim/Strategy award went to Age of Empires IV!

Best VR/AR

The Best VR/AR award is given to the games that offered the best experience playable utilising a virtual or augmented reality headset. The nominees for this category were:

And the winner for Best VR/AR game belonged to none other than Resident Evil 4!

Most Anticipated Game

The Most Anticipated Game award is given to a game that has been announced that demonstrates illustrated potential to push the gaming medium forward. The nominees for this category were:

Quite the competitive category this year, but the award for Most Anticipated Game award went to ELDEN RING!

Game of the Year

The one that everyone's been anticipating, the Game of the Year award needs no introduction. The award is meant to recognise a game that delivers the absolute best experience in contrast to the entire year's lineup. Here are the nominees:

And the award for the most outstanding Game of the Year went to It Takes Two!

Massive congratulations to all of the winners of the awards this year, and I cannot wait to participate in next year's even further! Is there anyone you think should have won an award but didn't? Let me know in the comments below!

Artura Dawn

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