These are the winners of the Golden Joystick Awards

, by Enzo

These are the winners of the Golden Joystick Awards

The 44th annual Golden Joystick Awards took place last night in London. This event features 25 different awards, and fans vote for their favorite games or studios for most of them. Only a few are awarded by a panel of judges: Streamers’ Choice, Developers’ Choice, and Critics’ Choice.

Below, we are going to list all the categories, the nominated games and the winners, which will be highlighted in bold and marked with a trophy icon: 🏆.

Best Storytelling

  • 007 First Light
  • Dispatch 🏆
  • Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
  • Silent Hill: Townfall
  • The Blood of Dawnwalker

Best Sound Design

  • Big Walk
  • Marathon
  • Onimusha: Way of the Sword 🏆 with 32% of the votes
  • Rhythm Heaven Groove
  • Saros

Best Multiplayer Game

  • ARC Raiders
  • Big Walk
  • Marathon
  • Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
  • Meccha Chameleon 🏆 with 31% of the votes
  • Valheim

Best Visual Design

  • Control Resonant 🏆 with 31% of the votes
  • Forza Horizon 6
  • Orbitals
  • Phonopolis
  • Resonance: A Plague Tale’s Legacy
  • Saros

Best Expansion

  • Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
  • Dave the Diver: In the Jungle
  • Doom: The Dark Ages: Revelations 🏆
  • Quake: Dawn of the Machine
  • The Alters: Last Variable
  • World of Warcraft: Midnight

Best Self-Published Indie Game

  • Cairn
  • Fields of Mistria
  • Meccha Chameleon 🏆 with 32% of the votes
  • Mewgenics
  • Mina the Hollower
  • Perfect Tides: Station to Station
  • Rhythm Doctor
  • The Incident at Galley House
  • Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors

Best Indie Game

  • Big Walk
  • Denshattack!
  • Esoteric Ebb
  • Mixtape
  • Mouse: P.I. For Hire
  • Order of the Sinking Star
  • Reanimal
  • Sovereign Tower
  • Titanium Court
  • Valheim 🏆 with 28% of the votes

Best Gaming Hardware

  • Logitech G PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE
  • Steam Controller 🏆 with 51% of the votes
  • Razer Viper V4 Pro
  • Secretlab ATLAS
  • Sony INZONE M10S II
  • Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II

Studio of the Year

  • Capcom 🏆 with 57% of the votes
  • Frogwares
  • House House
  • IO Interactive
  • Nintendo EPD
  • Square Enix

Best Early Access Game

  • Dead as Disco
  • Menace
  • skate.
  • Slay the Spire 2
  • Subnautica 2 🏆 with 35% of the votes
  • Wardogs

Best Soundtrack

  • 007 First Light
  • Crimson Desert
  • Dispatch 🏆 with 26% of the votes
  • Lumines Arise
  • Mewgenics
  • Mixtap

Best Live Game (Mobile)

  • Balatro 🏆 with 22% of the votes
  • Genshin Impact
  • Honkai: Star Rail
  • Marvel Snap
  • Monopoly Go!
  • NTE: Neverness to Everness
  • Old School RuneScape
  • Pokémon Go
  • Roblox
  • Sky: Children of the Light
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Mobile
  • Wuthering Waves

Best Live Game (PC and Consoles)

  • Apex Legends
  • Call of Duty: Warzone
  • GTA Online
  • Fortnite
  • Helldivers 2
  • Hitman: World of Assassination
  • Minecraft 🏆 with 23% of the votes
  • No Man’s Sky
  • Palworld
  • The Elder Scrolls Online
  • Warframe
  • World of Warcraft

Streamers’ Choice: Mecca Chameleon 🏆

Developers’ Choice: Mecca Chameleon 🏆

Critics’ Choice: Big Walk 🏆

Best Trailer

  • Battlefield 6 x Top Gun: Carrier Strike (cinematic trailer)
  • Big Walk (release date trailer)
  • Cairn (launch trailer)
  • Mouse: P.I. For Hire (launch trailer)
  • Prove You’re Human (unveiling trailer)
  • Resident Evil Requiem (Evil Has Always Had A Name) 🏆 with 27% of the votes

Best Remake and/or Remaster

  • Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced
  • Gothic 1 Remake
  • Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2
  • Star Fox
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered 🏆 with 37% of the votes
  • Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter

Best Video Game Adaptation

  • Devil May Cry (Season 2)
  • Exit 8
  • Fallout (Season 2)
  • Iron Lung 🏆 with 32% of the votes
  • Mortal Kombat II
  • Resident Evil

Best Lead Performance

  • Angela Sant’Albano as Grace Ashcroft in Resident Evil Requiem 🏆 with 36% of the votes
  • Aaron Paul as Robert Robertson III in Dispatch
  • Anna Demetriou as Sophia in Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
  • Liam McIntyre as Wolverine in Marvel’s Wolverine
  • Patrick Gibson as James Bond in 007 First Light
  • Will de Renzy-Martin as Coen in The Blood of Dawnwalker

Best Supporting Role

  • Frankie Kevich as Zoe de Vera in Control Resonant
  • Grace Saif as Diana in Pragmata 🏆 with 54% of the votes
  • Lennie James as John Greenway in 007 First Light
  • Terry O’Quinn as Richard in Silent Hill: Townfall
  • Troy Baker as Nathaniel Essex in Marvel’s Wolverine
  • Vic Michaelis as Runa Blask in Star Wars Zero Company

Game of the Year (PC)

  • Big Walk
  • Crimson Desert 🏆 with 18% of the votes
  • Escape from Tarkov
  • Esoteric Ebb
  • Meccha Chameleon
  • Mewgenics
  • Order of the Sinking Star
  • Star Wars Zero Company
  • The Blood of Dawnwalker
  • Valheim

Game of the Year (Consoles)

  • 007 First Light
  • Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave
  • Forza Horizon 6
  • LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
  • Nioh 3
  • Onimusha: Way of the Sword
  • Pokémon Pokopia
  • Pragmata
  • Resident Evil Requiem 🏆 with 27% of the votes
  • Saros

Most Anticipated Game

  • Alien: Isolation 2
  • Ananta
  • Black Myth: Zhong Kui
  • Exodus
  • Fable
  • Final Fantasy VII Revelation
  • God of War Laufey
  • Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
  • Kingdom Hearts IV
  • Metro 2039
  • No Law
  • Persona 6
  • Resident Evil Veronica
  • Stranger Than Heaven
  • Stuntman: Hollywood
  • The Expanse: Osiris Reborn
  • The Witcher 4 🏆 with 18% of the votes
  • Tides of Annihilation
  • Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
  • Total War: Warhammer 40,000

Ultimate Game of the Year

  • 007 First Light
  • Big Walk
  • CONTROL Resonant
  • Crimson Desert
  • Dispatch
  • Forza Horizon 6
  • Phantom Blade Zero
  • Pokémon Pokopia
  • PRAGMATA
  • Resident Evil Requiem 🏆 -- STAR WARS: Galactic Racer
  • The Blood of Dawnwalker

The replay is available at this link for those who are interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1afD6u8pP0