List Of All Winners In The Game Awards 2021: It Takes Two Becomes GOTY!

While 2021 is a fairly underwhelming year for video games due to the pandemic, there are still good titles coming out this year. Because of that, The Game Awards 2021 has become the biggest game show to date in the history of gaming. In this article, we are going to showcase a list of all winners in The Game Awards 2021.

Game of the Year

Here is the list of nominees for Game of the Year title and the official winner:

WINNER: It Takes Two
Deathloop
Metroid Dread
Psychonauts 2
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Resident Evil Village

It Takes Two, one of the year's biggest indie titles, becomes Game of the Year. The game also won the best family and best multiplayer award. It is a genre-bending platform adventure, created purely for co-op. Players can invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges.

While Deathloop and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart lead the nominations this year, they did not do so well in the actual voting rounds. The former only managed to get the best game and best art direction, while the latter get nothing at all.

Other notable titles amongst winners include Genshin Impact, the most successful mobile game in 2021, Final Fantasy XIV Online, the biggest MMO in the world currently, and Forza Horizon 5, the best gaming experience people have had in ages.

Player's Choice

Halo Infinite managed to take the crown, despite being released only a few days before the vote happened. Multiplayer largely retains traditional Halo gameplay, with slayer, capture the flag, and other modes available in standard 4v4 and Big Team Battle variants; the latter is 12v12, a first for the series.

New to multiplayer are ability pickups, which allow a player to activate a special power a limited number of times, such as dashing, active camouflage, and "repulsor" charges that can knock enemies and projectiles back.

WINNER: Halo Infinite
Metroid Dread
It Takes Two
Forza Horizon 5
Resident Evil Village

Best Game Direction

WINNER: Deathloop
It Takes Two
Returnal
Psychonauts 2
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Best Ongoing

Apex Legends
Call of Duty: Warzone
WINNER: Final Fantasy XIV Online
Fortnite
Genshin Impact

Best Indie

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

Best Debut Indie

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

Best Narrative

Deathloop
It Takes Two
Life is Strange: True Colors
WINNER: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Psychonauts 2

Best Art Direction

In Deathloop, you live in a timeloop, whereby you wake up every morning living the same day on this island called "Blackreef", which is divided into four highly-detailed, extremely well-designed maps for you to explore. Every time you visit an area, time moves forward. If you get killed by the mob, you are looped back to that same morning to try again.

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

Best Score and Music

Cyberpunk 2077
Deathloop
WINNER: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
The Artful Escape

Best Audio Design

Deathloop
WINNER: Forza Horizon 5
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Resident Evil Village
Returnal

Best Performance

Erika Mori as Alex Chen, Life is Strange: True Colors
Giancarlo Esposito as Anton Castillo, Far Cry 6
Jason E. Kelley as Colt Vahn, Deathloop
WINNER: Maggie Robertson as Lady Dimitrescu, Resident Evil Village
Ozioma Akagha as Julianna Blake, Deathloop

Games for Impact

Before Your Eyes
Boyfriend Dungeon
Chicory
WINNER: Life is Strange: True Colors
No Longer Home

Best Community Support

Apex Legends
Destiny 2
WINNER: Final Fantasy XIV Online
Fortnite
No Man’s Sky

Best Mobile Game

Genshin Impact is an open-world action role-playing game that allows the player to control one of four interchangeable characters in a party. Switching between characters can be done quickly during combat, allowing the player to use several different combinations of skills and attacks.

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

Best VR/AR

Hitman 3
I Expect You To Die 2
Lone Echo II
WINNER: Resident Evil 4
Sniper Elite VR

Best Action

Back 4 Blood
Chivalry II
Deathloop
Far Cry 6
WINNER: Returnal

Best Action/Adventure

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
WINNER: Metroid Dread
Psychonauts 2
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Resident Evil Village

Best Role Playing

Cyberpunk 2077
Monster Hunter Rise
Scarlet Nexus
Shin Megami Tensei V
WINNER: Tales of Arise

Best Fighting

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles
WINNER: Guilty Gear -Strive-
Melty Blood: Type Lumina
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown

Best Family

WINNER: It Takes Two
Mario Party Superstars
New Pokémon Snap
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
WarioWare: Get It Together!

Best Sports/Racing

F1 2021
FIFA 22
WINNER: Forza Horizon 5
Hot Wheels Unleashed
Riders Republic

Best Sim/Strategy

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

Best Multiplayer

Back 4 Blood
WINNER: It Takes Two
Knockout City
Monster Hunter Rise
New World
Valheim

Most Anticipated

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

Innovation in Accessibility

Far Cry 6
WINNER: Forza Horizon 5
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

Content Creator of the Year

WINNER: Dream
Fuslie
Gaules
Ibai
TheGrefg

Best Esports Game

Call of Duty
CS:GO
DOTA 2
WINNER: League of Legends
Valorant

Best Esports Athlete

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

Best Esports Team

Atlanta FaZe (COD)
DWG KIA (LOL)
WINNER: Natus Vincere (CS:GO)
Sentinels (Valorant)
Team Spirit (DOTA 2)

Best Esports Coach

Airat “Silent” Gaziev
Andrey “ENGH” Sholokhov
Andrii “B1ad3” Horodenskyi
James “Crowder” Crowder
WINNER: Kim “kkOma” Jeong-gyun

Best Esports Event

WINNER: 2021 League of Legends World Championship
PGL Major Stockholm 2021
PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
The International 2021
Valorant Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters