Elden Ring is named Best Game of the Year, and its developers from FromSoftware take the Studio of the Year award! The winners of the Golden Joystick Awards 2022 have been announced
The Golden Joystick Awards 2022 were held.
Here's What We Know
This year the triumphant winner of the Golden Joystick Awards (for the fortieth time!) was Elden Ring. It won in all the nominated categories and its developers from FromSoftware were named "Best Studio of the Year".
Horizon Forbidden West won the award for Best Storytelling.
"PlayStation Game of the Year," as we wrote earlier, was Stray, "Xbox Game of the Year" was Grounded, and "PC Game of the Year" was Return to Monkey Island.
In the Most Anticipated Game category, gamers gave their votes for Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
The Complete List of Golden Joystick Awards 2022 Winners
- Best Storytelling - Horizon Forbidden West;
- Best Multiplayer - Elden Ring;
- Best audio - Metal: Hellsinger;
- Best Visual Design - Elden Ring;
- Best Expansion - Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course;
- Best Game System (this year) - Steam Deck;
- Best Indie - Cult of the Lamb;
- Studio of the Year - FromSoftware;
- Best Actor - Manon Gage (Marissa Marcelle, Immortality)
- Breakthrough Award - Vampire Survivors;
- Best Community - Final Fantasy XIV;
- Best thing played so far - Genshin Impact;
- Best PC game - Return to Monkey Island;
- Best Nintendo game - Pokemon Legends Arceus;
- Best Xbox game - Grounded;
- Best PlayStation game - Stray;
- Most anticipated game - Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom;
- Critics' Choice - Elden Ring;
- Game of the Year - Elden Ring;
- Best Trailer - Goat Simulator 3 announcement trailer;
- Best Early Access release - Slime Rancher 2.
Flashback
Many will be surprised that another high-profile 2022 release, God of War Ragnarok, did not win in any of the categories.
The reason is that the organizers put this game on the list of the nominees in advance, but Ragnarok was released two days before the voting end and most of the gamers have already voted for another game.
Recall that 2021 Golden Joystick Awards triumphant was Resident Evil Village, which took four awards.
