Game Developers Choice Awards expert jury recognises Elden Ring as Best Game of 2022 and God of War Ragnarok wins user vote

The Game Developers Choice Awards 2023 professional gaming awards ceremony has taken place.

Here's What We Know

The renowned video game developers determined the best projects of 2022, looking at each contender from an expert point of view.

And predictably, two of the year's biggest hits were the winners: Elden Ring took the award for Best Game of the Year, and God of War Ragnarok was voted by gamers as Best Game of the Year. A professional jury gave the action game from Sony the awards for Best Sound and Technical Performance, while Elden Ring won for Best Design and Best Graphics

Best Debut 2022 was awarded to the cutesy action game Stray.

See the full list of winners:

Game of the Year

• Elden Ring is the winner
• God of War Ragnarok
• Immortality
• Pentiment
• Stray
• Tunic

Best Sound

• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok is the winner
• Horizon: Forbidden West
• Metal: Hellsinger
• Stray

Best Debut

• Neon White
• Norco
• Stray is the winner
• Tunic
• Vampire Survivors

Best Design

• Elden Ring - winner
• Marvel Snap
• Neon White
• Stray
• Tunic

Best Technical Performance

• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022)
• Elden Ring
• God of War Ragnarok - winner
• Horizon Forbidden West

Innovation Award

• Elden Ring
• Immortality - winner
• Neon White
• Pentiment
• Stray

Best Story

• God of War Ragnarok
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
• Immortality
• Pentiment is the winner
• Return to Monkey Island

Social Impact Award

• As Dusk Falls
• Citizen Sleeper - winner
• Endling - Extinction Is Forever
• I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
• OlliOlli World
• We Are OFK

Best Graphics

• Elden Ring - winner
• God of War Ragnarök
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Pentiment
• Stray

Audience Choice

• God of War Ragnarok is the winner.