2022 Golden Joystick Awards results: Winners and nominees

2022 Golden Joystick Awards results to select the game of the year in specific categories have been announced.

The season for video game awards shows is upon us as the holidays draw near. In the meantime, GamesRadar held the 2022 Golden Joystick Awards earlier today. The Game Awards are in a few weeks. The winners have already been revealed.

The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People’s Gaming Awards, is an annual video game awards show that honors the best games of the year as chosen by online voters around the world using GamesRadar+. The Golden Joystick Awards were first held in Britain and were first known as the People’s Gaming Awards.

The ceremony was in its 40th year as of 2022. Launched in 1983, it is the longest-running and second-oldest video game awards show after the Arcade Awards, which debuted in 1981.

2022 Golden Joystick Awards results: Game of the year and more

The Golden Joystick Awards, which are being held for the 40th time, weren’t bad at all for Nintendo enthusiasts.

”Nintendo Game of the Year” went to Pokemon Legends Arceus, and ”Most Wanted Game” went to Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Elden Ring was the winner of the  “Game Of The Year” award. Let’s take a look at all nominees and winners together:

Best Storytelling

• IMMORTALITY
• Return to Monkey Island
• Horizon Forbidden West – Winner
• NORCO
• I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
• Wayward Strand

Still Playing Award

• Genshin Impact – Winner
• The Sims 4
• Destiny 2
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Minecraft
• Fortnite
• Pokémon GO
• Apex Legends
• Lost Ark
• The Elder Scrolls Online

Best Visual Design

• Elden Ring – Winner
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Cult of the Lamb
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Lost in Play

Studio of the Year

• Roll7
• Terrible Toybox
• Half Mermaid
• FromSoftware Inc. – Winner
• Interior / Night
• Tribute Games

Best Game Expansion

• Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
• Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
• Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course – Winner
• GTA Online: The Contract
• Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons
• Total War: Warhammer III – Immortal Empires

Best Early Access Launch

• Disney Dreamlight Valley
• Slime Rancher 2 – Winner
• Dune: Spice Wars
• Core Keeper
• Vampire Survivors
• Gloomwood

Best Indie Game

• Cult of the Lamb – Winner
• Tunic
• Rollerdrome
• Dorfromantik
• Neon White
• Teardown

Best Multiplayer Game

• Elden Ring – Winner
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenue
• MultiVersus
• Splatoon 3
• Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Best Audio

• We Are OFK
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Metal: Hellsinger – Winner
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
• Gran Turismo 7
• OlliOlli World

Best Game Trailer

• The Callisto Protocol The Truth of Black Iron Trailer
• Goat Simulator 3 Announcement Trailer – Winner
• Skate. Still Working On It Trailer
• Bloody Hell Hotel Reveal Trailer
• Time Flies Announcement Trailer
• Alan Wake 2 Reveal Trailer

Best Game Community

• Dreams
• Final Fantasy 14 – Winner
• GRID Legends
• No Man’s Sky
• Splatoon 3
• Warframe

Best Gaming Hardware

• Playdate
• Steam Deck – Winner
• Analogue Pocket
• Backbone One: PlayStation Edition
• Roccat Kone XP
• WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5

Best Performer

• Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel, Immortality) – Winner
• Ted Rami (Travis, The Quarry)
• Dominic Armato (Guybrush Threepwood, Return to Monkey Island)
• Angela Bassett (Regalla, Horizon Forbidden West)
• Ashly Burch (Tiny Tina, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands)
• Christopher Judge (Kratos, God of War Ragnarok)

Nintendo Game of the Year

• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus – Winner
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Live A Live
• Splatoon 3
• Nintendo Switch Sports

PC Game of the Year

• Neon White
• Return to Monkey Island – Winner
• 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 – Winner
• Elden Ring
• The Last Of Us Part I
• Sifu

Xbox Game of the Year

• Halo Infinite
• Scorn
• Grounded – Winner
• As Dusk Falls
• Sniper Elite 5
• Dying Light 2: Stay Human

Most Wanted Game

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Winner
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Assassin’s Creed Mirage
• Dead Island 2
• Forspoken
• Street Fighter 6
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Starfield
• Exoprimal
• Redfall
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Mass Effect
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Kerbal Space Program 2
• Dead Space

Ultimate Game of the Year

• Elden Ring – Winner
• Gran Turismo 7
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Immortality
• Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
• God of War: Ragnarok
• Return to Monkey Island
• Teardown
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Bayonetta 3
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Neon White

Breakthrough Award

Vampire Survivors

Critics’ Choice Award

Elden Ring

We hope you enjoyed reading our article on the golden joystick awards. Compared to past rewards, Nintendo games are looking surprisingly successful this year, and oh boy what a year for Elden Ring! We’ve also prepared The Game Awards 2022 nominees for you!