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Here’s the complete list of winners from The Game Awards 2021

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The Game Awards

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is time for The Game Awards 2021, presented once again by Geoff Keighley. It’s a night of highs, lows, pretty awards, interviews, and a huge amount of reveals.

In total there were 30 categories, from Game of the Year to Best Esports Event. If you didn’t turn into the event and you wanted to see if your favorite game, content creator, or Esports person won, just check out the list of winners below. We’ve also added a section for the game that won multiple awards. Just in case you were wondering about that as well.

This is how it works. We’ve listed each category and the nominees, with the winner listed in bold text. If any of the titles have a URL, it’s because we’ve reviewed or had coverage of that game as well, so be sure to check those out as well.

Alright, on to this year’s winners!

Game of the Year

Recognizing a game that delivers the absolute best experience across all creative and technical fields.

Best Game Direction

Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.

Best Narrative

For outstanding storytelling and narrative development in a game.

Best Art Direction

For outstanding creative and/or technical achievement in artistic design and animation.

  • WINNER: Deathloop
  • Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • Psychonauts 2
  • Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
  • The Artful Escape

Best Score and Music

For outstanding music, inclusive of score, original song and/or licensed soundtrack.

Best Audio Design

Recognizing the best in-game audio and sound design.

Best Performance

Awarded to an individual for voice-over acting, motion and/or performance capture.

  • Erika Mori (Alex Chen/Life is Strange: True Colors)
  • Giancarlo Esposito (Antón Castillo/Far Cry 6)
  • Jason Kelly (Colt Vahn/Deathloop)
  • WINNER: Maggie Robertson (Alcina Dimitrescu/Resident Evil Village)
  • Ozioma Akagha (Julianna Blake/Deathloop)

Games for Impact

For a thought-provoking game with a pro-social meaning or message.

Best Ongoing Game

Awarded to a game for outstanding development of ongoing content that evolves the player experience over time.

Best Indie

For outstanding creative and technical achievement in a game made outside the traditional publisher system.

  • Death’s Door
  • WINNER: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • Inscryption
  • Loop Hero
  • Twelve Minutes

Best Mobile Game

For the best game playable on a mobile device.

  • Fantasian
  • WINNER: Genshin Impact
  • League of Legends: Wild Rift
  • Marvel Future Revolution
  • Pokémon Unite

Best Community Support

Recognizing a game for outstanding community support, transparency, and responsiveness, inclusive of social media activity and game updates/patches.

Innovation In Accessibility

Recognizing software and/or hardware that is pushing the medium forward by adding features, technology, and content to help games be played and enjoyed by an even wider audience.

Best VR / AR

For the best game experience playable in virtual or augmented reality, irrespective of platform.

  • Hitman III
  • I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar
  • Lone Echo II
  • WINNER: Resident Evil 4 VR
  • Sniper Elite VR

Best Action Game

For the best game in the action genre-focused primarily on combat.

Best Action / Adventure

For the best action/adventure game, combining combat with traversal and puzzle-solving.

Best Role Playing

For the best game designed with rich player character customization and progression, including massively multiplayer experiences.

Best Fighting

For the best game designed primarily around head-to-head combat.

Best Family

For the best game appropriate for family play, irrespective of genre or platform.

Best Sim / Strategy

Best game focused on real time or turn-based simulation or strategy gameplay, irrespective of platform.

  • WINNER: Age of Empires IV
  • Evil Genius 2: World Domination
  • Humankind
  • Inscryption
  • Microsoft Flight Simulator

Best Sports / Racing

For the best traditional and non-traditional sports and racing game.

Best Multiplayer

For outstanding online multiplayer gameplay and design, including co-op and massively multiplayer experiences, irrespective of game genre or platform.

Content Creator Of The Year

For a streamer or content creator who has made an important and positive impact on the community in 2021.

  • WINNER: Dream
  • Fuslie
  • Gaules
  • Ibai
  • The Grefg

Best Debut Indie

For the best debut game created by a new independent studio.

  • WINNER: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
  • Sable
  • The Artful Escape
  • The Forgotten City
  • Valheim

Most Anticipated Game

Recognizing an announced game that has demonstrably illustrated potential to push the gaming medium forward.

  • WINNER: Elden Ring
  • God of War Ragnarok
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • The Sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • Starfield

Best ESPORTS Game

For the game that has delivered the best overall esports experience to players (inclusive of tournaments, community support and content updates), irrespective of genre or platform.

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

Best ESPORTS Athlete

The esports athlete judged to be the most outstanding for performance and conduct in 2021, irrespective of game.

  • Chris “Simp” Lehr
  • Heo “ShowMaker” Su
  • Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov
  • WINNER: Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev
  • Tyson “TenZ” Ngo

Best ESPORTS Team

Recognizing a specific esports team (not the full organization) judged the most outstanding for performance and conduct in 2021.

  • Atlanta Faze (Call of Duty)
  • DWG KIA (League of Legends)
  • WINNER: Natus Vincere (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)
  • Sentinels (Valorant)
  • Team Spirit (Dota 2)

Best ESPORTS Coach

The esports coach judged to be the most outstanding for performance and conduct in 2021.

  • Airat “Silent” Gaziev
  • Andrey “Engh” Sholokhov
  • Andreii “B1AD3” Horodenskyi
  • James “Crowder” Crowder
  • WINNER: Kim “KKoma” Jeong-Gyun

Best ESPORTS Event

Recognizing an event (across single or multiple days) that delivered a best-of-class experience for participants and the broadcast audience.

  • WINNER: 2021 League of Legends World Championships
  • The International 2021
  • PGL Major Stockholm 2021
  • PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
  • Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters
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Keith has been a fan of geek culture and video games ever since his father gifted him his first gaming console many decades ago and has used this love of for the genres to start The Outerhaven. Keith keeps follows on the ongoings of videogames, anime, comics and technology, and while he has been writing about these topics for the past 14 years, he has been a gamer and tech guy for 30 years.

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