Here's every winner from this year's Golden Joystick Awards, including the Ultimate Game of the Year

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From Best Audio to the Ultimate Game of the Year itself, millions of people participated in The Golden Joysticks Awards online voting to show some love to their favourite titles of the last 12 months, and we've got the final results listed right here. Read on below for the full breakdown of winners, and see where your top picks of the year ended up.

[ZeekQuattro]

Resident Evil 2 earned it. Well done.

[TGGJustin]

Yeah I'm pretty sure Resident Evil 2 will be the overall GOTY this year. It already has 2 of them.

[cooperdnizzle]

Death stranding is the gonna win a lot. It’s my game of the year, followed by re2.

[Gazondaily]

Well deserved :)

[-Foxtrot]

YES

Well deserved, they really need to continue with this and how they approached it.

Epic? Really

[TGGJustin]

Yeah that was one of the worst choices they could make. Like how is it not Capcom who had RE2, DMC5, Monster Hunter World Iceborne etc.

[monkey602]

Regardless of how anyone feels about Fortnite, it's downright ignorant not to see how much effort Epic put into the game over the last 2 years. They consistently update it and keep it rewarding and fresh for its fan base. Best developer of the year? Maybe not my choice but don't all holier than thou over it

I'd actually agree with Justin and say Capcom had a storming year

[NeoGamer232]

This is actually a really good model for re-makes going forward. RE2 set the bar for re-makes and I hope that pubishers look at their older IPs and do more of this with them. There are a lot of games that I would like to see from the past re-built from the ground up in future generations using all the capabilities of the generation to modernize them.

[Profchaos]

Agreed but I'd love an old school run mode with damage turned the right up that gives you the option to pop zombie heads the entire way through.
The changes to re made it feel more about resource control and less about horror which is fine but an additional mode just for fun would have been great

[Spurg]

What exactly did epic do? Capcom owns this year

[CaptainCook]

Fortnite = new updates, events, rewards etc..

[SegaGamer]

I agree, they released two of the best and most well recieved games this year. Epic has done nothing but Fortnite updates and threw money at companies to get timed exclusives for their rubbish store.

[ocelot07]

Best story telling Days Gone is deserved in my opinion. But Resident Evil 2 earned it imo great game.

[Outlawzz]

Meh, I'm not into resident evil or horror games. But good for the fans, I've heard nothing but good things about it.

[TheOptimist]

The awards became irrelevant the moment DMC5 was omitted. Apex being included was just more poop on the shitfest.

[Kornholic]

DMC5 is borefest.

[TheOptimist]

Would love to know which games according to you this gen aren't.

[Abcdefeg]

Dmc 5 trashed all the cinematic games of this gen

[Movefasta1993]

A hack and slash, an old school hack and slash won't win goty. A game like dmc requires multiple playthroughs to experience the depth of it's combo system, I put over 1000 hours into the steam dmc4, comparing my first playthrough to now is night and day.

[TheOptimist]

Sadly, we have only regressed from old school. There still isn't a game that can beat DMC in terms of depth in combat.

[King_Noctis]

“ Studio of the Year - Epic Game “

.....seriously?

[Zayne-Z66]

RE2 is amazing, but no love at all for Sekiro?

[VileBrute]

I agree sekiro was downright amazing.... Feels like for some reason from software games don't get much love at awards shows... Imo they have the best soundtrack in every game. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[C4rnos]

Definitely has the best soundtrack, Sekiro was my favourite this year, FromSoftware made that combat feel so incredibly satisfying, along with a focused narrative and visual design that fit so well.

[Profchaos]

Games with higher difficulty levels are often classed as niche and ignored for awards

[coolbeans]

What the hell were the nominations for Best Storytelling this year?

[King_Noctis]

Presumably Fifa 20, Apex Legend, Anthem, and Days Gone.

[Kornholic]

It's very obvious you haven't even tried Days Gone let alone finished it.

[coolbeans]

How do you figure?

[rainslacker]

Not sure, but I'm having a hard time coming up with contenders, much less ones that had a better story.

Might be different if it was about the generation instead of the year

[EDKICK]

@rainslacker

Not necessarily knocking Days Gone but Metro Exodus, Control, Gears 5, and Katana Zero are all stories I would put above Days Gone this year.

[rainslacker]

Can't agree with Control. Decent game, and story wasn't terrible, but it lacked some depth. Gears 5 I can't say for sure, but I've heard mixed feelings about the story, and I'm not talking about just the dissent that comes from console war talk, but actual people I know that discuss it. Won't put it down, but the talk makes me see why it may not be a contender, much less better than DG. Can't speak to the others as I haven't played them. I didn't mean to imply that there weren't better stories out there, just that I really couldn't think of any, which means that since I thought DG was the best I could think of, that it probably had a place in the running.

[StormLegend]

Congrats to Days Gone! I really loved that game this year.

[dekke]

@StormLegend

yeah it was awsum ...tho i waited updates since it was released so i could plat it :P

[taurul]

Glad that Days Gone gets the recognition it deserves. Really an excellent story! One of my goty.

[DiRtY]

„ Esports Game of the Year - Fortnite“

Oh dear...

[TheOptimist]

Also how did Days Gone get best story above Sekiro? Sekiro's story was just lovely. Days Gone was okay, not bad, not great.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Sekiro story wasn’t even that good the gameplay and level design carries that game all day every day. Days gone def deserved the win it really did have a great story

[TheOptimist]

Sekiro's story was great. Idk how you are saying, it wasn't even good.

[Segata]

Shit list overall

[victorMaje]

Congrats to RE2, well deserved!
Happy to see Days Gone getting some love, I loved the story, can’t wait for the 2nd one.
Best Indie Game - Outer Wilds. Oh yeah! I haven’t finished it yet but after 20 minutes I went “Wow!”

Also can someone tell me why awards aren’t held around mid-Feb?

[Profchaos]

With games releasing all throughout the year as opposed to just the holiday season as it was in the past not sure that it matters anymore.

The holiday releases are normally the annualised releases call of duty EA shooter number 5041 and more

[victorMaje]

True, but:
OCD-wise everything matters ;)

Also makes sense that it’s related to marketing like @SickSinceSix Says

[Skuletor]

Probably a marketing thing, get people to buy the award winning games as Xmas gifts or something

[Imortus_san]

Not very Good Choises.

[NiteX]

What a joke. Why is this even a thing?

[Juusterey]

I consider it the joke games of the year awards
ever since they gave fortnite goty in 2018

[Passerotto]

No Sekiro, no true.

[Profchaos]

I don't understand how best Saber won VR goty when so many other great VR games launched like blood and truth

[rainslacker]

Beat saber had a lot of hype and marketing.

[BoredDemon]

YES, Some love for Devil May Cry V ^_^
Hope we will get a sequel, like in less than 10 years :')

[KeenBean345]

No complaints about RE2, there is so many great single player games to pick from this year for GOTY

[marchape]

Resident Evil 2 what a surprise! well deserved!

[feenix-5]

**Spoiler**
PS4 wins damn near everything

[KonaSquid]

>remake
>goty
not how it works.

[Juusterey]

why?
Remakes can be amazing

[Thundercat77]

So happy for Days Gone receiving so much credit. RE2 is one of the best remakes I have played. They deserve bit and I hope they do the same with RE3.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Studio of the Year - Epic Games ... ummm no. F--K them.

[Juusterey]

Lol
knowing these guys fortnite probably won again
or maybe a 2018 game

[Sully5246]

Days Gone shouldnt have won anything tbh, and fortnite beating smash for best competitive game is ridiculous

[ajax17]

just a reminder of what a 'meh' year it's been. 2020 can't come soon enough

[Tross]

Ok, I don't think this is a bad list at all. REmake2 isn't a bad choice for GotY. I'm sad that games like The House in Fata Morgana and AI: The Somnium Files flew under the radar for Gamesradar, but at least the game they picked is a pretty great one.

[Exvalos]

It's really unfair Star Wars apparently missed the cutoff date, as it deserved to have won some awards. Sadly if they include it in next years awards, there are way to many Juggernauts in it's way for it to win anything.

[GameStallion]

Days Gone is amazing. It deserves it.