PC Gamer’s Game of the Year Awards 2022
We reveal PC gaming’s brightest stars of the last 12 months.
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Welcome to PC Gamer’s annual Game of the Year awards. Each day, for the rest of the month, we’ll be revealing another of 2022’s best PC games, culminating in our ultimate Game of the Year on December 30.
To create this list, each writer nominates up to six games released within the last 12 months. Those nominationsbecome our shortlist. We then gather together to talk through the list and—after much wailing and shouting—decide on both our overall Game of the Year and the 13 other games we feel deserving of an award. Once the games are chosen, we assign them categories that exemplify what they each did best. The award categories are designed to fit the games we’ve picked, which is why we run different ones each year.
Alongside the main awards, each PC Gamer writer has also picked a personal favourite of the year. We’ll be updating this page with new awards and personal picks throughout the rest of the month.
The Awards
Best Ongoing Game:Guild Wars 2Best Strategy:Total War: Warhammer 3Best Early Access:Disney Dreamlight ValleyBest Roguelike:Vampire SurvivorsBest Puzzle Game:Strange HorticultureBest Sandbox:TeardownBest RPG:Persona 5 RoyalBest Design:Card SharkBest Co-op:Monster Hunter RiseBest Platformer:Neon WhiteBest Story:The Case of the Golden IdolBest Comedy:Trombone ChampGOTY Runner-Up:Marvel’s Midnight SunsGame of the Year:Elden Ring
Personal Picks
Katie Wickens:Two-Point CampusJody Macgregor:Hard West 2Lauren Aitken:The Witcher 3 – Next-Gen UpdateTyler Colp:SignalisEvan Lahti:Into the Breach: Advanced EditionPhil Savage:Destiny 2: The Witch QueenLauren Morton:RoadwardenJorge Jimenez:Tactics Ogre: RebornFraser Brown:GroundedTyler Wilde:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2Joshua Wolens:PentimentShaun Prescott:SteelrisingSean Martin:Warzone 2 DMZAndy Chalk:Hell is OthersChristopher Livingston:Farthest FrontierJacob Ridley:F1 Manager 2022Wes Fenlon:DorfromantikRobin Valentine:Warhammer 40,000: DarktideSarah James:PowerWash SimulatorMorgan Park:MultiVersusMollie Taylor:Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix+Andy Chalk:Elden Ring
Past Awards
Game of the Year Awards 2021Game of the Year Awards 2020Game of the Year Awards 2019Game of the Year Awards 2018Game of the Year Awards 2017Game of the Year Awards 2016Game of the Year Awards 2015Game of the Year Awards 2014Game of the Year Awards 2013
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Phil has been writing for PC Gamer for nearly a decade, starting out as a freelance writer covering everything from free games to MMOs. He eventually joined full-time as a news writer, before moving to the magazine to review immersive sims, RPGs and Hitman games. Now he leads PC Gamer’s UK team, but still sometimes finds the time to write about his ongoing obsessions with Destiny 2, GTA Online and Apex Legends. When he’s not levelling up battle passes, he’s checking out the latest tactics game or dipping back into Guild Wars 2. He’s largely responsible for the whole Tub Geralt thing, but still isn’t sorry.
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