Horizon Forbidden West is the best game at the Develop: Star Awards 2022

The winners of the Develop: Star Awards 2022, which honors the best games released in the last 12 months, were announced at the Develop: Brighton conference.

The nominees were chosen by professionals from the game industry, and the winners were chosen by developers. Horizon Forbidden West received the most awards, with two being "Best Game" and "Best Visual Series".

The best game ever

• Horizon Forbidden West.
• Deathloop.
• Forza Horizon 5.
• Life is Strange: True Colors.
• OlliOlli World.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
• Sifu.
• Unpacking.

The best VR game

• Resident Evil 4 VR.
• Fracked.
• Hitman 3 VR.
• I Expect You To Die 2.
• Sniper Elite VR.

The best mobile game

• LEGO Star Wars Battles.
• Beatstar - Touch Your Music.
• Love & Pies.
• Overboard!
• Please, Touch The Artwork.
• Rocket League Sideswipe.

The best sound

• Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Deathloop.
• Forza Horizon 5.
• Horizon Forbidden West.
• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands.
• Total War: Warhammer III.

The best game design

• Unpacking.
• Deathloop.
• Death's Door.
• Fights in Tight Spaces.
• OlliOlli World.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

The best plot

• Life is Strange: True Colors.
• Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View.
• Deathloop.
• Horizon Forbidden West.
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
• Unpacking.

The best visual series

• Horizon Forbidden West.
• Forza Horizon 5.
• Lost Ark.
• OlliOlli World.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
• Sable.

The best original IP

• Deathloop.
• Death's Door.
• Fights in Tight Spaces.
• Hell Let Loose.
• I Am Fish.
• Sable.

The best technical innovation

• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
• Anstream Arcade.
• Forza Horizon 5.
• Horizon Forbidden West.
• Richcast by Panivox.
• The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.

The best studio

• Sumo Digital.
• Arkane Studios.
• Creative Assembly.
• Guerrilla Games.
• nDreams.
• Playground Games.
• Roll7.
• Supermassive Games.

The best micro studio

• Acid Nerve.
• Animal Uprising.
• Huey Games.
• ink.
• Shedworks.
• Studio Waterzooi.

The best publisher

• Curve Games.
• Amazon Games.
• Kepler Interactive.
• Kwalee.
• Private Division.
• Team17.Wizards of the Coast.

The best supplier of creativity

• d3t.
• Atomhawk.
• PitStop Productions Ltd.
• Richard Jacques Studios Ltd.
• SIDE UK.
• Talenthouse Media Foundry.

The best technology

• Unreal Engine.
• Anything World.
• GameMaker Studio 2.
• Machinations.
• PopcornFX.
• Unity.

The best organizer of quality control and localization

• Keywords Studios.
• d3t.
• Player Research.
• PTW.
• Testronic.
• Universally Speaking.

The best recruitment company

• Sumo Group.
• Aardvark Swift.
• Amiqus.
• Datascope Recruitment.
• Games Jobs Direct.
• OPMjobs.

A star of diversity

• Charu Desodt  from Interior Night.
• Brandon Cole of Into Games.
• Deborah Mensah-Bonsou from Games for Good.
• Dim Shaw from Ukie.
• Jerris Dinningana of Rocksteady Studios.
• Carla Reyes  of Code Coven.
• Leon Killeen  of Sumo Group.
• Marie-Claire Issaman of Women in Games.

Marketing star

• Live services team from Media Molecule.
• Etch Play.
• Lauren Moses of Code Coven.
• Neonhive.
• Sean Walsh of Wired Productions.
• Sola Casali of Electronic Arts.

The star of tomorrow

• Charmy Kim from Space Ape Games.
• Hannah Rose Burdett from PlayStation Studios.
• Josh Hale of FuturLab.
• Liam Van Basteler  of nDreams.
• Milea Lofland Nicky Harper-Williams  of Many Cats Studios CIC.
• Paige Dolan of Secret Mode.
• Sarah Dyer of Splash Damage.
• An award for outstanding service and contribution to the industry
• Ding Bakaba  of Arkane Lyon.