The 40th Golden Joystick Awards will take place on Tuesday November 22 this year and we already know all nominees for one of the award categories which will be an online broadcast.
These awards are the industry’s oldest and most publicly voted video game awards, attracting millions of votes each year from gamers around the world.
Video games, developers, publishers and even shortlisted hardware will be put to a vote, open until Friday, November 4. Below you can see the list of categories and their nominees, published by Nintenderos.
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better sound
- We Are OFK -Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Metal: Hellsinger
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
- Grand Touring 7
- OlliOlli World
best narration
- IMMORTALITY
- Return to Monkey Island
- Horizon Forbidden West
- NORCO
- I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
- Wayward Strand
best community
- dreams
- final fantasy XIV
- Grid Legends
- No Man’s Sky
- Splatoon 3
- Warframe
best 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
better hardware
- play date
- Steam Deck
- Analog Pocket
- Backbone One: PlayStation Edition
- Roccat Kone XP
- WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5
best indie game
- Cult of the Lamb
- Tunic
- rollerdrome
- dorfromantik
- Neon White
- tear down
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 graphic design
- Elden Ring
- Horizon Forbidden West
- Cult of the Lamb
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- A Plague Tale: Requiem
- Lost-in-Play
most wanted game
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- final fantasy xvi
- Assassin’s Creed Mirage
- Dead Island 2
- forspoken
- Street Fighter 6
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Honkai: StarRail
- Starfield
- exoprimal
- red fall
- Hogwarts Legacy
- The Day Before
- Mass Effect
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 vFinal Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Hollow Knight: Silk Song
- Kerbal Space Program 2
- dead space
best nintendo game
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Pokémon Legends: Arceus
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- live a live
- Splatoon 3
- Nintendo Switch Sports
best pc game
- Neon White
- Return to Monkey Island
- Hardspace: Shipbreaker
- tear down
- Total War: Warhammer 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters
best playstation game
- Grand Touring 7
- Horizon Forbidden West
- stray
- Elden Ring
- The Last Of Us Part I
- Sifu
best xbox game
- halo-infinite
- scorn
- grounded
- Ace Dusk Falls
- Sniper Elite 5
- Dying Light 2: Stay Human
to keep playing
- Genshin Impact
- Sims 4
- destiny 2
- final fantasy XIV
- Minecraft
- Fortnite
- Pokémon GO
- apex legends
- Lost Ark
- The Elder Scrolls Online
study of the year
- Roll7
- terrible toy box
- Half-Mermaid
- FromSoftware Inc.
- Indoor / Night
- Tribute Games
best early access
- Disney Dreamlight Valley
- Slime Rancher 2
- Dune: Spice Wars
- Core Keeper
- vampire survivors
- Gloomwood
best 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
- timeflies
- Alan Wake 2 Reveal Trailer