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

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    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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