For the past decade, The Game Awards have celebrated each year's top video games in various categories.
However, the most coveted has always been the Game of the Year, which recognizes the best title according to a panel of experts and part of the gaming community.
Although there has always been controversy, the entire industry stops to see which games have been selected for the award thanks to the volume the organization has gathered.
Therefore, it's time to review history, remember the winners, and rank them from worst to best in this list with every GOTY of the last decade.
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Saving some trapped aliens in Super Metroid and seeing them escape. Daisy's third eye in Melee. Seeing Mario characters portraits in a window at Hyrule castle. Megaman X using Ryu/Ken's movesets in mutiple entries. Bayonetta cosplaying as Fox McCloud while using an Arwing to kill angels and demons. So many good ones throughout the years.
9 out of 10 last GOTYs playable on Playstation:)
It was such a great decade so many memorable moments... Good to be a gamer folks
Inquisition and TLOU2 over God of War?
Sure
GOTY of the Last Decade, availability!
Playstation: 10 out of 11
PC: 8 out of 11
Xbox: 7 out of 11
Nintendo: 4 out of 11
Okay, but The Game Awards are the most biased, least game-centric awards of all big 5 (with GJA, GDCA, BAFTA, DICE). They're diet E3, an ad reel for new games with awards as a side dish.
Almost none of TGA's GotY winners are the true game of the year besides maybe Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring (which had no competition in 2022 aside for God of War).
God of War as number 9? Seriously that games a masterpiece