PC Gamer's Game of the Year Awards 2022
We reveal PC gaming's brightest stars of the last 12 months.
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 nominations become 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 2
Best Strategy: Total War: Warhammer 3
Best Early Access: TBA
Best Roguelike: TBA
Best Puzzle Game: TBA
Best Sandbox: TBA
Best RPG: TBA
Best Design: TBA
Best Co-op: TBA
Best Platformer: TBA
Best Story: TBA
Best Comedy: TBA
GOTY Runner-Up: TBA
Game of the Year: TBA
Personal Picks
Katie Wickens: Two-Point Campus
Jody Macgregor: Hard West 2
Past Awards
Game of the Year Awards 2021
Game of the Year Awards 2020
Game of the Year Awards 2019
Game of the Year Awards 2018
Game of the Year Awards 2017
Game of the Year Awards 2016
Game of the Year Awards 2015
Game of the Year Awards 2014
Game of the Year Awards 2013