Death Stranding, Untitled Goose Game, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Outer Wilds, and control are the nominees for Game of the year at the 20th annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Which is coming up in March at Game Developers Conference 2020.
These groups of games each earned nominations in several categories, with Death Stranding greeting a vote in seven, the most of any game. Death Stranding is set up for Best Audio, Best Narrative Game (I think this one is a no-brainer) Best Design, Best Visual Art and the GDC’s Innovation, Best Technology, with a whooping Game of the Year.
The International Choice Awards Network chooses the nominees, the winners to be selected by ICAN, would be revealed on Wednesday, March 18 in a festival hosted by Kim Swift, now a design director for Electronic Arts and also famous for her work on Valve’s Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, and Portal.
Below is the full list of game nominees and honorable mentions:
Best Debut
• Foam Sword Games—Knights and Bikes
• Mobius Digital—Outer Wilds
• William Chyr Studios—Manifold Garden
• Chance Agency—Neo Club
• ZA/UM—for Disco Elysium.
Best Audio
• Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/ Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare—Infinity Ward/Activision
• Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
• Sayonara Wild Hearts—Simogo/Annapurna Interactive
For the ‘honorable mentions’: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Cadence of Hyrule—Brace Yourself Games/Nintendo, Ape Out—Gabe Cuzzillo, Matt Boch/Devolver Digital, Disco Elysium—ZA/UM, and Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive.
Best Design
• Baba Is You—Hempuli
• Death Stranding—Kojima Production/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—From Software/Activision Publishing, FromSoftware
• Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
Best Debut
• Mobius Digital—Outer Wilds
• William Chyr Studios—Manifold Garden
• Chance Agency—Neo Cab
• Foam Sword Games—Knights and Bikes
• ZA/UM—Disco Elysium
For the ‘honorable mentions’: Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games, Disco Elysium—ZA/UM, The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division, Apex Legends—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, and Luigi’s Mansion 3—Next Level Games/Nintendo.
Innovation Award
• Baba Is You—Hempuli Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
• Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Disco Elysium—ZA/UM
• Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
For the ‘honorable mention’ : Hypnospace Outlaw—Tendershoot and ThatWhichIs Media/No More Robots, Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games, Ring Fit Adventure—Nintendo EPD/Nintendo, Kind Words—Popcannibal, and Wattam—Funomena/Annapurna Interactive
Honorable Mention: For Best Mobile Game
• What the Golf?—Triband Productions/The Label Limited
• Sky: Children of the Light—thatgamecompany
• Sayonara Wild Hearts—Simogo/Annapurna Interactive
• Call of Duty: Mobile—TiMi Studios/Activision
• Grindstone—Capybara Games
For the ‘honorable mention’ : Assemble with Care—ustwo, Pilgrims—Amanita Design, Mutazione—Die Gute Fabrik/Akupara Games, Card of Darkness—Choice Provisions, Mini Motorways—Dinosaur Polo Club, and Archero—Habby.
Honorable Mention: For Best Narrative
• The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division
• Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive
• Disco Elysium—ZA/UM
• Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
For the ‘honorable mentions’: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Fire Emblem: Three Houses—Intelligent Systems, Telling Lies—Drowning a Mermaid Productions, Koei Tecmo Games/Nintendo, Heaven’s Vault—Vinkle, Mutazione—Die Gute Fabrik/Akupara Games, Furious Bee/Annapurna Interactive, and A Plague Tale: Innocence—Asobo Studio/Focus Home Interactive.
Best Technology
• Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare—Infinity Ward/Activision
• Apex Legends—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts
• Noita—Nolla Games
For the ‘honorable mentions’: Resident Evil 2—Capcom, Manifold Garden—William Chyr Studios, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—From Software/Activision, The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive, and Gears 5—The Coalition/Xbox Game Studios
Best VR/AR Game
• Blood & Truth—SCEE Studio London/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Vader Immortal—ILMxLAB/Disney
• Asgard’s Wrath—Sanzaru Games/Oculus Studios
• Pistol Whip—Cloudhead Games
• Boneworks—Stress Level Zero
For the ‘honorable mention’ : Trover Saves the Universe—Squanch Games, Stormland—Insomniac Games/Oculus Studios Falcon Age—Outerloop Games, Ghost Giant—Zoink, and Vacation Simulator—Owlchemy Labs
Best Visual Art
• Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
• Disco Elysiuma—ZA/UM
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—FromSoftware/Activision
• Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Sayonara Wild Hearts—Simogo/Annapurna Interactive
For the ‘honorable mentions’ : Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive, Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic, Luigi’s Mansion 3—Next Level Games/Nintendo, Void Bastards—Blue Manchu/Humble Bundle, and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening—Grezzo/Nintendo
And finally, Games of the Year
• Death Stranding—Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Control—Remedy Entertainment/505 Games
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—FromSoftware/Activision
• Untitled Goose Game—House House/Panic
• Outer Wilds—Mobius Digital/Annapurna Interactive.
For Honorable mentions: The Outer Worlds—Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts, Disco Elysium—ZA/UM, and Apex Legends—Respawn Entertainment/Electronic Arts.
