The Game Awards 2021 Winners

The Game Awards 2021 awards found their owners in the live broadcast held on December 9th. It Takes Two won the game of the year award, while the best art direction award went to Deathloop. Oleksandr “S1MPLE” Kstyliev won the best esports player award. The biggest esports event of the year, as you can all guess, was the 2021 League of Legends World Championship. Riot Games won another award with LoL and has the best esports game. Forza Horizon 5 was not surprisingly named the best sports/racing game of the year. Let's take a look at all the award winners.

Winning Games of The Game Awards 2021

A total of 30 awards were given at the Game Awards 2021 . These branches include titles such as the best esports player , team, coach and best content producer. All the winners were determined by voting by the players. While the nominees were already expected to receive awards, there were also surprising winners. Although it came out in the second half of this year, Elden Ring managed to get the most anticipated game award . Congratulations to the winners and we wonder which games will be included in the Game Awards in 2022.

Game of the Year: It Takes Two

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

Most Anticipated Game

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok
• Horizon Forbidden West
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel
• starfield

Best VR/AR Game

• Resident Evil 4
• Hitman 3
• I Expect You to Die 2
• Lone Echo II
• Sniper Elite VR

Best Fighting Game

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

Best Family Game

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

Best Simulation/Strategy Game

• Age of Empires IV
• Evil Genius 2: World Domination
• humankind
• Incryption
• Microsoft Flight Simulator

Best Esports Game

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

Best Directed Game

• deathloop
• It Takes Two
• psychonauts
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• returnal

Best Innovation

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

Best Sports/Racing Game

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

Best Emerging Game/ Community Support

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

• Final Fantasy XIV Online
• Apex Legends
• Destiny 2: Beyond Light
• Fortnite
• No Man's Sky

Best Action/Adventure Game

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

Best Storytelling

• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
• deathloop
• It Takes Two
• Life Is Strange: True Colors
• Psychonauts 2

Best Mobile Game

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

Content Creator of the Year

• dream
• Leslie 'Fuslie' Fu
• Alexandre 'Gaules' Borba
• Ibai Llanos
• David 'TheGrefg' Canovas

Best Multiplayer Game

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

Best Role Playing Game

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

Best Orchestra/Music

• Nier Replicant ver 1.22474487139 ⁠— Keiichi Okabe
• Cyberpunk 2077 ⁠— Marcin Przybylowicz and Piotr Adamcyzk
• Deathloop ⁠— Tom Salta
• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy ⁠— Richard Jacques
• The Artful Escape ⁠— Johnny Galvatron and Josh Abrahams

Actors' Voice Award

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

Best Art Direction

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

Best Action Game

• returnal
• Back 4 Blood
• Chivalry II
• deathloop
• Far Cry 6

Best Voice Over

• Maggie Robertson ⁠— Lady Dimitrescu ⁠— Resident Evil Village
• Erika Mori ⁠— Alex Chen in Life Is Strange: True Colors
• Giancarlo Esposito ⁠— Anton Castillo in Far Cry 6
• Jason Kelley ⁠— Colt Vahn in Deathloop
• Ozioama Akagha ⁠— Juliana Blake ⁠— Deathloop

Best Indie

• Kena: Bridge of Spirits
• 12 Minutes
• Death's Door
• Incryption
• Loop Hero

Best Launch Game

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

Best Sound Design

• Forza Horizon 5
• deathloop
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Resident Evil Village
• returnal

Best Esports Player

• Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev (CS:GO)
• Chris 'Simp' Lehr (Call of Duty)
• Heo 'ShowMaker' Su (League of Legends)
• Magomed 'Collapse' Khalilov (Dota 2)
• Tyson 'TenZ' Ngo (Valorant)

Best Esports Team

• Natus Vincere (CS:GO)
• DWG KIA (League of Legends)
• Atlanta FaZe (Call of Duty)
• Sentinels (Valorant)
• Team Spirit (Dota 2)

Best Esports Team Coach

• Kim 'kkOma' Jeong-gyun (League of Legends)
• Airat 'Silent' Gaziev (Dota 2)
• Andrey 'Engh' Sholokhov (Valorant)
• Andrei 'B1ad3' Horodenskyi (CS:GO)
• James 'Crowder' Crowder (Call of Duty)

Best Esports Event

• League of Legends 2021 World Championship
• The International 10
• PGL Major Stockholm 2021
• PUBG Mobile Global Championship 2020
• Valorant Masters Iceland (VCT Stage 2 2021)

Best Impressive Game

• Life Is Strange: True Colors 
• Before Your Eyes
• Boyfriend Dungeon
• Chicory: A Colorful Tale
• No Longer Home

Many games , sound artists, esports players and content producers won awards at The Game Awards 2021 . We are looking forward to Game Awards 2022 . Bye now!

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