Os indicados ao 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards foram divulgados hoje.
Qualquer jogo lançado e disponibilizado ao público durante o ano de 2022 é elegível para nomeações. A International Choice Awards Network (ICAN), específica do Game Developers Choice Awards, é uma organização somente para convidados composta por criadores de jogos líderes de todas as partes da indústria, e foi quem determinou os indicados.
Os vencedores serão anunciados em 22 de março.
Best Debut
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Vampire Survivors (poncle)
Honorable Mentions: Chained Echoes (Matthias Linda/Deck13), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital), Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc./Nuverse), The Case of the Golden Idol (Color Gray Games/Playstack), Trombone Champ (Holy Wow Studios LLC)
Best Audio
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders/Funcom)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
Honorable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment), Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive), Persona 5 Royal (ATLUS/SEGA), Splatoon 3 (Nintendo), TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Best Design
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc./Nuverse)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Honorable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital), Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games/Kitfox Games), God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment), IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid), Vampire Survivors (poncle)
Best Narrative
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox/Devolver Digital)
Honorable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment), Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment), NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury), Roadwarden (Moral Anxiety Studio/Assemble Entertainment)
Best Technology
A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Beenox, Treyarch, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, Toys for Bob/Activision)
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Honorable Mentions: Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games/Kitfox Games), Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Blackbird Interactive/Focus Entertainment), IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid), Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive), Teardown (Tuxedo Labs)
Best Visual Art
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
Honorable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio/Focus Entertainment), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital), Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive), OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division), TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Innovation Award
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive)
Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
Honorable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital), Dwarf Fortress (Bay 12 Games/Kitfox Games), God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment), Trombone Champ (Holy Wow Studios LLC)
Social Impact Award
As Dusk Falls (INTERIOR/NIGHT/Xbox Game Studios)
Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios/HandyGames)
I Was A Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games/Finji)
OlliOlli World (Roll7/Private Division)
We Are OFK (Team OFK)
Honorable Mentions: Before Your Eyes (GoodbyeWorld Games/Skybound Games), God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment), Hindsight (Team Hindsight/Annapurna Interactive), NORCO (Geography of Robots/Raw Fury), Terra Nil (Free Lives/Devolver Digital)
Game of the Year
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow/Half Mermaid)
Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
TUNIC (TUNIC Team/Finji)
Honorable Mentions: Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller), Cult of the Lamb (Massive Monster/Devolver Digital), Horizon Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment), Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc./Nuverse), Neon White (Angel Matrix/Annapurna Interactive), Vampire Survivors (poncle)
