The Game Awards 2017 GOTY nominees include: Wolfenstein 2, Horizon: Zero Dawn, PUBG, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, more

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Published on Nov. 14, 2017

Nominees for The Game Awards 2017 have been announced.

The Game Awards take place in December, and the full list of nominees are listed below.

Many titles are nominated in multiple categories three or more times:

Horizon: Zero Dawn (6); Wolfenstein 2 (4); The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (6); PUBG (3), Destiny 2 (6); Persona 5 (4); Super Mario Odyssey (6); Resident Evil 7 (3); Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (5); Nier: Automata (3); What Remains of Edith Finch (3); Cuphead (5); Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (3).

This year, the first Student Game Award (SGA) will be handed out. The award will be selected from five nominees by a panel made up of Todd Howard (Bethesda Game Studios), Hideo Kojima (Kojima Productions), Illka Paananen (CEO and Co-founder, Supercell), Kim Swift (EA Motive), and Vince Zampella (Respawn Entertainment).

The SGA will be handed out to the team or individual based on "excellence and ambition" of a game, without regard to the team size or subject matter.

The full list of nominees for The Game Awards 2017 are below. You can cast your votes through the official website.

The Game Awards 2017 Nominees

Game of the Year

Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Persona 5 (Atlus)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Game Direction

Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)

Best Narrative

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Nier: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive)
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda)

Best Art Direction

Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Persona 5 (Atlus)

Best Score / Music

Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Nier: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)
Persona 5 (Atlus)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Audio Design

Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Performance

Ashly Burch as Aloy in Horizon: Zero Dawn
Brian Bloom as BJ Blazkowicz in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Claudia Black as Chloe Frazer in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Melina Juergens as Senua in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

Games for Impact Award

Bury Me, My Love (The Pixel Hunt / Figs, ARTE)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Deck Nine / Square Enix)
Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
Please Knock on my Door (Levall Games)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive)

Best Ongoing Game

Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
GTA Online (Rockstar Games)
Overwatch (Blizzard)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Warframe (Digital Extremes)

Best Mobile Game

Fire Emblem Heroes (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
Hidden Folks (Adriaan de Jongh / Sylvain Tegroeg)
Monument Valley 2 (Ustwo Games)
Old Man’s Journey (Broken Rules)
Super Mario Run (Nintendo)

Best Handheld Game

Ever Oasis (Grezzo / Nintendo)
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
Metroid: Samus Returns (MercurySteam / Nintendo)
Monster Hunter Stories (Capcom / Nintendo)
Poochy and Yoshi’s Woolly World (Good-Feel / Nintendo)

Best VR Game

Farpoint (Impulse Gear / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Lone Echo / Echo Arena (Ready at Dawn / Oculus Studios)
Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom)
Star Trek: Bridge Crew (Red Storm Entertainment / Ubisoft)
Superhot VR (Superhot Team)

Best Action Game

Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activison)
Nioh (Team Ninja / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Prey (Arkane Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus (MachineGames / Bethesda Softworks)

Best Action/Adventure Game

Assassin’s Creed: Origins (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best RPG

Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Larian Studios)
Final Fantasy 15 (Square Enix Business Division 2 / Square Enix)
Nier: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)
Persona 5 (Atlus)
South Park: The Fractured But Whole (Ubisoft San Francisco / Ubisot)

Best Fighting Game

ARMS (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Injustice 2 (NetherRealm Studios / Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite (Capcom)
Nidhogg 2 (Messhof Games)
Tekken 7 (Bandai Namco Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Best Family Game

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)
Sonic Mania (PagodaWest Games + Headcannon / Sega)
Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Best Strategy Game

Halo Wars 2 (Creative Assembly + 343 Industries / Microsoft Studios)
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Ubisoft Paris + Milan / Ubisoft)
Total War: Warhammer 2(Creative Assembly / Sega)
Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Games)
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (Firaxis Games / 2K Games)

Best Sports / Racing Game

Gran Turismo Sport (Polyphony Digital / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
FIFA 18 (EA Vancouver / EA)
Forza Motorsport 7 (Turn 10 Studios / Microsoft Studios)
NBA 2K18 (Visual Concepts / 2K Sports)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (PES Productions / Konami)
Project Cars 2 (Slightly Mad Studios / Bandai Namco Entertainment)

Best Multiplayer Game

Call of Duty: WW2 (Sledgehammer Games / Activision)
Destiny 2 (Bungie / Activision)
Fortnite (Epic Games)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corp.)
Splatoon 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Most Anticipated Game

God of War (SIE Santa Monica Studio / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
The Last of Us Part 2 (Naughty Dog / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Monster Hunter: World (Capcom)
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Spider-Man (Insomniac Games / Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Best Independent Game

Cuphead (Studio MDHR)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Ninja Theory)
Night in the Woods (Infinite Fall)
Pyre (Supergiant Games)
What Remains of Edith Finch (Giant Sparrow / Annapurna Interactive)

Best Student Game

Falling Sky (Jonathan Nielssen, Nikolay Savov, Mohsen Shah; National Film and Television School)
From Light (Alejandro Grossman, Steven Li, Sherveen Uduwana; University of Southern California)
Hollowed (Erin Marek, Jerrick Flores, Charley Choucard; University of Central Florida – Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy)
Impulsuon (Hugo Verger, Rémi Bertrand, Maxime Lupinski; IIM – Institut de l’Internet et du Multimédia)
Level Squared (Kip Brennan, Stephen Scoglio, Dane Perry Svendsen; Swinburne University of Technology)
Meaning (Hariz Yet; DigiPen Institute of Technology Singapore)

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