All the nominees for The Game Awards 2022

Check out the complete list of nominees for each category below.

GAME OF THE YEAR

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

BEST GAME DIRECTION

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

• Immortality (Half Mermaid)

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

BEST NARRATIVE

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

• Immortality (Half Mermaid)

BEST ART DIRECTION

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

• Scorn (Ebb Software/Kepler Interactive)

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

BEST SCORE AND MUSIC

• Olivier Deriviere – A Plague Tale: Requiem

• Tsukasa Saitoh – Elden Ring

• Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök

• Two Feathers – Metal: Hellsinger

• Yasunori Mitsuda – Xenoblade Chronicles 3

BEST AUDIO DESIGN

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

• God of War Ragnarok (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony/SIE)

• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

BEST PERFORMANCE

• Ashly Burch – Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West

• Charlotte McBurney – Amicia in A Plague Tale: Requiem

• Christopher Judge – Kratos in God of War Ragnarokk

• Manon Gage – Marissa in Immortality

• Sunny Suljic – Atreus in God of War Ragnarok

GAMES FOR IMPACT

• A Memoir Blue (Cloisters Interactive/Annapurna)

• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)

• Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)

• Endling – Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)

• Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna)

• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)

BEST ONGOING GAME

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)

• Destiny 2 (Bungie)

• FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)

• Fortnite (Epic Games)

• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

BEST INDIE

• Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster / Devolver Digital)

• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)

• Sifu (Sloclap)

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

• TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

BEST DEBUT INDIE

• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)

• NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

• TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

• Vampire Survivors (poncle)

BEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT

• Apex Legends (Respawn/EA)

• Destiny 2 (Bungie)

• FINAL FANTASY XIV (Square Enix)

• Fortnite (Epic Games)

• No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

BEST MOBILE

• Apex Legends Mobile (Lightspeed & Quantum/Respawn/EA)

• Diablo Immortal (Blizzard/NetEase)

• Genshin Impact (HoYovese)

• MARVEL SNAP (Second Dinner Studios/Nuverse)

• Tower of Fantasy (Hotta Studio/Perfect World/Level Infinite)

BEST VR/AR

• After the Fall (Vertigo Games)

• Among Us VR (Schell Games/InnerSloth)

• BONELAB (Stress Level Zero)

• Moss: Book II (Polyarc)

• Red Matter 2 (Vertical Robot)

BEST ACTION

• Bayonetta 3 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)

• Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna)

• Sifu (Sloclap)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE

• A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)

• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/SIE)

• Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna)

• TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)

BEST ROLE-PLAYING

• Elden Ring (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

• Live a Live (Square Enix/Nintendo)

• Pokémon Legends: Arceus (Game Freak/Nintendo/TPCI)

• Triangle Strategy (Artdink/Square Enix)

• Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft/Nintendo)

BEST FIGHTING

• DNF Duel (Arc System Works/EIGHTING/NEOPLE/NEXON)

• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R (CyberConnect 2 Co. Ltd/Bandai Namco)

• The King of Fighters XV (SNK/Plaion)

• MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)

• Sifu (Sloclap)

BEST FAMILY

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (HAL Laboratory / Nintendo)

• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Traveller’s Tales/WB Games)

• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)

• Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

BEST SIM/STRATEGY

• Dune: Spice Wars (Shiro Games/Funcom)

• Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan/Paris/Ubisoft)

• Total War: WARHAMMER III (Creative Assembly/Sega)

• Two Point Campus (Two Point Studios/Sega)

• Victoria 3 (Paradox Development Studio/Paradox Interactive)

BEST SPORTS/RACING

• F1 22 (Codemasters/EA Sports)

• FIFA 23 (EA Vancouver/Romania/EA Sports)

• NBA 2K23 (Visual Concepts/2K Sports)

• Gran Turismo 7 (Polyphony Digital/SIE)

• OlliOlli World (Roll 7/Private Division)

BEST MULTIPLAYER

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward/Activision)

• MultiVersus (Player First Games/WB Games)

• Overwatch 2 (Blizzard)

• Splatoon 3 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (Tribute Games/Dotemu)

MOST ANTICIPATED GAME

• FINAL FANTASY XVI (Square Enix)

• Hogwarts Legacy (Avalanche Software/WB Games)

• Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)

• Starfield (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda)

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR

• Karl Jacobs

• Ludwig

• Nibellion

• Nobru

• QTCinderella

BEST ADAPTATION

• Arcane: League of Legends (Fortiche/Riot Games/Netflix)

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Studio Trigger/CD Projekt, Netflix)

• The Cuphead Show! (Studio MDHR/King Features Syndicate/Netflix)

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Sammy Group/Paramount Pictures)

• Uncharted (PlayStation Productions/Sony Pictures)

INNOVATION IN ACCESSIBILITY

• As Dusk Falls (Interior Night/Xbox Game Studios)

• God of War Ragnarök (Sony Santa Monica/SIE)

• Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)

• The Last Of Us Part I (Naughty Dog/SIE)

• The Quarry (Supermassive Games/2K)

BEST ESPORTS GAME

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)

• DOTA 2 (Valve)

• League of Legends (Riot Games)

• Rocket League (Psyonix)

• VALORANT (Riot Games)

BEST ESPORTS ATHLETE

• Jeong “Chovy” Ji-hoon (Gen.G, LOL)

• Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (T1, LOL)

• Finn “karrigan” Andersen ( (FaZe Clan – CS:GO)

• Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)

• Jacob “Yay” Whiteaker (Cloud9, Valorant)

BEST ESPORTS TEAM

• DarkZero Esports (Apex Legends)

• FaZe Clan (CS:GO)

• Gen.G (League of Legends)

• LA Thieves (Call of Duty)

• LOUD (Valorant)

BEST ESPORTS COACH

• Andrii “B1ad3″ Horodenskyi (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)

• Matheus “bzkA” Tarasconi (LOUD, VALORANT)

• Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren (FPX, VALORANT)

• Robert “RobbaN” Dahlström (FaZe Clan, CS:GO)

• Go “Score” Dong-bin (Gen.G, LOL)

BEST ESPORTS EVENT

• EVO 2022

• 2022 League of Legends World Championship

• PGL Major Antwerp 2022

• The 2022 Mid-Season Invitational

• VALORANT Champions 2022

The Game Awards 2022 will be live-streamed on Youtube, Twitch and more on December 9th, at 11:30 AM AEDT

You can vote on each category here.