The Golden Joystick Awards 2021 winners were announced in a ceremony held on November 23.
BEST STORYTELLING
- Life is Strange: True Colors
BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME
- It Takes Two
BEST AUDIO
- Resident Evil: Village
BEST VISUAL DESIGN
- Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
BEST GAME EXPANSION
- Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island Expansion
MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR
- League of Legends: Wild Rift
BEST GAMING HARDWARE
- PS5
BEST INDIE GAME
- Death’s Door
STUDIO OF THE YEAR
- Capcom
BEST PERFORMER
- Maggie Robertson (Lady Dimitrescu)
BREAKTHROUGH AWARD
- Housemarque
BEST GAME COMMUNITY
- Final Fantasy 14
STILL PLAYING AWARD
- Final Fantasy 14
PC GAME OF THE YEAR
- Hitman 3
NINTENDO GAME OF THE YEAR
- Metroid Dread
XBOX GAME OF THE YEAR
- Psychonauts 2
PLAYSTATION GAME OF THE YEAR
- Resident Evil Village
MOST WANTED GAME
- Elden Ring
CRITICS CHOICE AWARD
- Deathloop
ULTIMATE GAME OF THE YEAR
- Resident Evil Village
ULTIMATE HARDWARE OF ALL TIME
- PC
ULTIMATE GAME OF ALL TIME
- Dark Souls
MORE ABOUT THE ULTIMATE GAME OF ALL TIME. The shortlist for GamesRadar+’s Ultimate Game of All Time category began by deciding how to narrow the 1.1 million or so games released in the last 50 years into a voting shortlist of 20 titles. A longlist of several hundred titles was compiled from existing best of all time lists produced for Edge Magazine and Retro Gamer magazine, plus the addition of every Ultimate Game of the Year winner from the Golden Joystick Awards (established 1983). The longlist was then sifted by a panel of industry judges who created the shortlist of 20 that was put up for public voting.
The shortlisted games were:
- Dark Souls (Winner)
- Doom (1993)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Half-Life 2
- Minecraft
- Street Fighter II
- Tetris
- The Last of Us
- Super Mario 64
- Metal Gear Solid
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Portal
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Pac Man
- Super Mario Kart
- Space Invaders
- Sim City (1989)
- Pokémon GO
I don’t see Dig-Dug or Q-Bert…
The Atari VCS was robbed.