Voting for the Golden Joystick Awards has started, so players from around the world can now decide which ones should take home the awards this year. Voting ends on November 4 with winners to be revealed in a virtual celebration on November 22. The all-digital awards show will be broadcast on all major streaming platforms.
Here are some of the highlights:
- More than 70 games are represented in 18 categories.
- Elden Ring is leading the nominations this year with four that include:
- Best Multiplayer Game
- Best Visual Design
- PlayStation Game of the Year
- Studio of the Year (for developer FromSoftware Inc.)
- Horizon Forbidden West, Splatoon 3, Final Fantasy XIV, and Teardown all have multiple nominations.
- There are indie games featured like:
- IMMORTALITY
- Cult of the Lamb
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
- Neon White
- Teardown
- This year’s awards feature two new categories:
- Best Early Access Launch
- Best Game Trailer
Here are some of the categories and nominees:
- Best Game Expansion
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
- Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
- GTA Online: The Contract
- Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
- Total War: Warhammer III - Immortal Empires
- Best Indie Game
- Cult of the Lamb
- Tunic
- Rollerdrome
- Dorfromantik
- Neon White
- Teardown
- Best Multiplayer Game
- Elden Ring
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenue
- MultiVersus
- Splatoon 3
- Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
- LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
- Best Early Access Launch
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Slime Rancher 2
- Dune: Spice Wars
- Core Keeper
- Vampire Survivors
- Gloomwood
- Best Game Trailer
- The Callisto Protocol: The Truth of Black Iron Trailer
- Goat Simulator 3 Announcement Trailer
- Skate: Still Working On It
- Bloody Hell Hotel Reveal Trailer
- Time Flies
- Alan Wake 2 Reveal Trailer
- Nintendo Game of the Year
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Live A Live
- Splatoon 3
- Nintendo Switch Sports
- PC Game of the Year
- Neon White
- Return to Monkey Island
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- Teardown
- Total War: Warhammer 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
- PlayStation Game of the Year
- Gran Turismo 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Stray
- Elden Ring
- The Last Of Us Part I
- Sifu
- Xbox Game of the Year
- Halo Infinite
- Scorn
- Grounded
- As Dusk Falls
- Sniper Elite 5
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
There’s also the Ultimate Game of the Year but it has a separate voting window opening on November 7.
Start voting for your favorite games here.
