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Vote Now for The Games of the Year!

Now is the time to decide which games are worthy of the Game of the Year crown. Here are your nominations for the best games of the year in each category.

Place your votes right here, and may the best games win.

Your nominees are:

Top Arcade Game

  • Cuphead
  • Robonauts
  • Rocket Wars
  • Nex Machina
  • Drifting Lands

Best Adventure Game

  • The Surge
  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
  • Beat Cop
  • Assassin’s Creed: Origins
  • Super Mario Odyssey

Family Friendly Game

  • Skylanders: Imaginators
  • Chess Ultra
  • Super Mario Odyssey
  • RiME
  • A Hat in Time

Best Shooter

  • Destiny 2
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
  • Call of Duty: WWII
  • Sniper Ghost Warrior 3
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

Sports Game of the Year

  • theHunter: Call of the Wild
  • NASCAR Heat 2
  • RBI Baseball 2017
  • NBA Playgrounds
  • FIFA 18

Top Strategy Title

  • Spellforce 3
  • Battlestar Galactica Deadlock
  • Supreme Ruler The Great War
  • Blitzkrieg 3
  • Earth Liberation

Best Simulation

  • SpinTires: Mudrunner
  • Chess Ultra
  • theHunter: Call of the Wild
  • NASCAR Heat 2
  • Everspace

Best RPG

  • Divinity: Original Sin 2
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2
  • Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer
  • Torment: Tides of Numenera

Puzzle Game of the Year

  • Gorogoa
  • A Hat in Time
  • Beholder
  • Super Rude Bear Resurrection
  • Dark Train

Best Story Elements in a Game

  • Attentat 1942
  • Assassin’s Creed: Origins
  • The Evil Within 2
  • The Walking Dead Season 3: A New Frontier
  • Observer

Most Immersive Environment

  • Destiny 2
  • Middle Earth: Shadow of War
  • Horizon Zero Dawn
  • Assassin’s Creed: Origins
  • RiME

Best Soundtrack

  • Assassin’s Creed: Origins
  • Destiny 2
  • Call of Duty: WWII
  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
  • Mass Effect: Andromeda

Top Videogame Character

  • Ludmila – Attentat 1942
  • Chloe Frazer – Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
  • Senua – Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
  • Detective Sebastian Castellanos – The Evil Within 2
  • Dan Lazarski – Observer

Best Mobile Title

  • Snoopy Pop
  • Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze
  • Ninja Arashi
  • Digimon Links
  • Dan the Man: Action Platformer

Top Nintendo Switch Game

  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2
  • Super Mario Odyssey
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • Skylanders: Imaginators
  • ARMS

Best PC Game

  • Divinity: Original Sin 2
  • Spellforce 3
  • Observer
  • Albion Online
  • Sniper Elite 4

Top PlayStation 4 Game

  • Horizon Zero Dawn
  • Assassin’s Creed: Origins
  • The Evil Within 2
  • Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
  • Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands

Best Xbox One Title

  • Middle Earth: Shadow of War
  • Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
  • Call of Duty: WWII
  • Cuphead
  • Prey

Overall best Game of the Year

We leave this category open, so vote for any game you want, so long as it was released in 2017.

Those are your choices. Don’t delay, vote for the best games of the year now!

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