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Game of the Year Winners Tally
Updated - 10/15/26

Pokémon Pokopia - 1
Game Freak and Omega Force - Switch 2

Which types of games are eligible?

Any console, PC, handheld or mobile video game is included, provided that it is named the overall Game of the Year (GOTY) from an eligible media outlet.

"Expansions"/DLC, whether standalone or add-ons, to otherwise eligible titles are included.
All "Remake" versions are included from 2019 onward.
Votes awarded to non-remastered or non-remade "ports" (i.e. a game re-released on new platforms in largely the same state) will be counted toward the totals in the year of the title's initial U.S. release date.
To be eligible, the awarded title needs to have been released in the country of the media outlet. For media outlet critics, the title needs to have been released for review to critics before the publication of the award. For "readers' choice" votes, the title needs to have been released to the public before voting begins.

Which media outlets are eligible?

"Media outlets" include websites, magazines, newspapers, radio, TV broadcasts, podcasts, industry ceremonies, and online entertainment companies.

Media Outlets must be active for more than a year and consistently produce gaming related articles, videos or content.
- Award results from the outlets may be announced on any platform, including social media.
- If a previously ineligible outlet provides more than a year of content, their current and previous GOTY will be added to the tally as long as they still meet the required criteria below.
Outlets with ties of toxic behavior, discriminatory articles or considered as a bad influence to the gaming community are not eligible.
Outlets that are suspected to have AI created content are not eligible.
Outlets that appears to be predominantly operated by a single individual/staff member will be not be eligible.
- There must be more than 1 working staff who consistently contribute to the outlet, specifically the outlet's gaming related content.
At least two staff members need to be part of the award selection process.
- If the Outlet's winner is posted by an individual rather than multiple staff members, it can still be eligible as long as they indicate that it is not a personal/individual list.
Student-operated newspapers are counted provided that they are from a college or university and they regularly write content for the majority of the year and they meet all of the other criteria.
Outlets with an overly restrictive scope—focusing on a particular region, genre, or concept to the exclusion of most games—are not eligible.
To avoid platform bias, votes from media outlets that are exclusively focused on a single platform or family of platforms (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, etc.) are not eligible.

Which awards are eligible?

Only overall GOTY awards are eligible. Individual genre, platform and technical achievement awards do not count toward a title's total GOTY awards.
- An outlet's 'overall GOTY' is the single title to which they give their highest award of the year, except in the case of a tie/draw vote.
If a tie occurs, then all winners will be counted.
- The number of titles awarded needs to be fewer than the number of staff on the voting team. For example, an outlet with three voting staff members cannot simply name each of their separate, personal favorites as the three different winners and call that a draw; if those three staff members have two titles tie as the result of a points system however, those two titles would be eligible. A maximum of three titles will be accepted as a points-based draw.
"Best of the year" lists are counted as a media outlet's overall GOTY if the top choice is clearly communicated and the site does not have a separate formal GOTY award selection.
Inherently excluding any category of games from the GOTY awards, including indie titles, means that the main award is not actually an "overall" award, as it is not open to nominating games overall but only a certain subset of them.
- A site can separately recognize any categories that they wish ("best AAA games," "best indies," etc), and they do not need to nominate all types of games every year, but their highest award needs to at least, in principle, be open to games from all categories.
- If a site has strict rules, such as excluding DLCs and Remakes, they will be counted just as long as it within reason.
Retrospective awards are only accepted for years that the media outlet actually existed, produced regular content for more than half of the year, and did not originally give out an award for the year in question.
- "Retrospective" refers to any awards not given during the original year or subsequent year of the award title (for example, giving an award for 2016 in 2018 or later.)

Previous Overall Game of the Year Award Winners (and Runner Ups):

2002 - Metroid Prime | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
2001 - Grand Theft Auto III | Halo: Combat Evolved
2000 - Deus Ex | Diablo II | The Sims | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
1999 - Soulcalibur | Unreal Tournament
1998 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
1997 - Final Fantasy VII | Goldeneye 007
1996 - Super Mario 64 | Tomb Raider
1995 - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest | Virtua Fighter 2
1994 - Donkey Kong Country
1993 - Samurai Showdown | Disney's Aladdin (Genesis)
1992 - Street Fighter II (SNES)
1991 - Sonic The Hedgehog

* (2002 - 1991) these are years not previously covered by previous tallies, but they are part of a recent attempt at creating tallies for those missing years. Given the fact that most gaming outlets were magazines back in the day, they are unfortunately hard to track down. Luckily there are some records and sources that are aiding our findings such as Wikipedia and Wayback Machine. The GOTYs for these years are not to be considered "definitive" but for now it gives us an idea of which games were considered GOTYs back in those days. For more detail see this post.

Total Game of the Year awards per year:

2025 - 735
2024 - 529
2023 - 537
2022 - 615
2021 - 443
2020 - 648
2019 - 467
2018 - 518
2017 - 463
2016 - 480
2015 - 476
2014 - 433
2013 - 540
2012 - 395
2011 - 410
2010 - 297
2009 - 220
2008 - 210
2007 - 162
2006 - 113
2005 - 61
2004 - 55
2003 - 40

Additional Statistics

Game of the Year winners with over 100 awards total:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 516
Elden Ring (FromSoftware) - 429
The Last of Us Part II (Naughty Dog) - 326
Baldur's Gate III (Larian Studios) - 288
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt Red) - 281
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD) - 264
God of War (2018) (Santa Monica Studio) - 263
The Last of Us (Naughty Dog) - 257
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda) - 229
Astro Bot (Team Asobi) - 196
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (Naughty Dog) - 190
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games) - 178
Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar Games) - 163
Dragon Age: Inquisition (Bioware) - 139
Death Stranding (Kojima Productions) - 118
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio) - 118
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Naughty Dog) - 115
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD) - 114
Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment) - 114
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games) - 111
Mass Effect 2 (Bioware) -102

Game of the Year winners by percenatge of wins out of the total awards given on their respective year:

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 87%
Street Fighter II (SNES) - 80%
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 70,2%
Elden Ring - 69,7%
Sonic the Hedgehog - 63%
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - 59%
Resident Evil 4 (2005) / The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 57%
Baldur's Gate III - 53,6%
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 55,3%
God of War (2018) - 50,7%
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 50,4%
The Last of Us Part II - 50,3%
Final Fantasy VII / Super Mario 64 - 50%
The Last of Us - 47,5%
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 45%
Donkey Kong Country - 40%
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End - 39,5%
Metroid Prime - 39%
Half-Life 2 / Grand Theft Auto III / Halo Combat Evolved - 38%
Red Dead Redemption - 37,3%
Astro Bot - 37%
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - 35,3%
Red Dead Redemption 2 / Mass Effect 2 - 34%
Fallout 3 - 32,8%
Dragon Age Inquisition - 31,8%
Grand Theft Auto V / Gears of War / Samurai Shodown - 30%
Bioshock - 29%
Super Mario Galaxy / Grand Theft Auto Vice City / Goldeneye 007 - 28%
Soulcalibur - 27%
Death Stranding - 25,2%
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest / Virtua Fighter II - 25%
Overwatch / Deus Ex - 24%
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 23%
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom / Tomb Raider (2016) - 21%
Resident Evil 2 (2019) / The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker / Halo 2 / Disney's Aladdin (Genesis) - 20%
It Takes Two - 19,8%
God of War Ragnarök / The Walking Dead S1 / Grand Theft Auto IV / Metal Gear Solid IV Guns of the Patriots - 19%
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice / Unreal Tournament / Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 / Diablo II / The Sims - 18%
God of War Ragnarök - 17%
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas - 16%
Horizon Zero Dawn / Journey - 15%
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare / Portal 2 / Resident Evil Village - 14%
Far Cry 3 / Fallout 4 / Batman Arkham Asylum / Dishonored - 13%
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth / Hades - 11%
Batman Arkham City - 10%