Winners
2025
Still Wakes the Deep
The Chinese Room
82
2023
Elden Ring
FromSoftware
97
2022
It Takes Two
Hazelight Studios
90
2021
Kentucky Route Zero
Cardboard Computer
88
2020
Outer Wilds
Mobius Digital
85
2019
Into the Breach
Subset Games
90
2018
Horizon Zero Dawn
Guerrilla Games
89
2017
Inside
Playdead
93
2016
Until Dawn
Supermassive Games
80
2015
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Ubisoft Montpellier
76
Nominees
2026
ARC Raiders
Embark Studios
89
2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sundial Interactive
87
2026
Dispatch
AdHoc Studio
85
2025
Balatro
LocalThunk
91
2025
Thank Goodness You're Here!
90
2024
Hi-Fi Rush
Tango Gameworks
86
2024
Jusant
DON'T NOD
86
2023
Cult of the Lamb
89
2023
Sifu
Sloclap
79
2023
Stray
BlueTwelve Studio
85
2023
Vampire Survivors
Poncle
91
2022
Deathloop
Arkane Studios
90
2022
Death's Door
Acid Nerve
87
2022
Inscryption
Daniel Mullins Games
82
2022
Returnal
Housemarque
90
2022
Unpacking
Witch Beam
93
2021
Carrion
75
2021
Fall Guys
Mediatonic
77
2021
Ghost of Tsushima
Sucker Punch Productions
92
2021
Hades
Supergiant Games
94
2021
Spiritfarer
Thunder Lotus
88
2020
Control
505 Games
83
2020
Disco Elysium
ZA/UM
89
2020
Untitled Goose Game
House House
82
2019
Dead Cells
Motion Twin
90
2019
Moss
84
2019
Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope
95
2019
Subnautica
Unknown Worlds
84
2018
Cuphead
87
2018
Night in the Woods
Infinite Fall
88
2018
PUBG: Battlegrounds
PUBG Corp
75
2018
What Remains of Edith Finch
Giant Sparrow
87
2017
Firewatch
Campo Santo
79
2017
Overwatch
Blizzard Entertainment
89
2017
The Last Guardian
Team Ico
80
2017
The Witness
Thekla, Inc
88
2016
Her Story
Sam Barlow
85
2016
Life Is Strange
DON'T NOD
79
2016
Ori and the Blind Forest
Moon Studios
88
2015
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Astronauts
82
2015
Titanfall
Respawn Entertainment
84
2005
Donkey Konga
Namco
60
2005
Fable
90
2005
Second Sight
73