The Game Awards 2023 winners were announced December 7 in a streaming awards ceremony.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was named Game Of The Year.

The complete list of winners follows.

Game of the Year

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

Best Game Direction

• Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games Publishing)

Best Adaptation

• The Last of Us (PlayStation Productions/HBO)

Best Narrative

• Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games Publishing)

Best Art Direction

• Alan Wake 2 (Remedy Entertainment/Epic Games Publishing)

Best Score and Music

• Final Fantasy XVI, Composer Masayoshi Soken (Square Enix)

Best Audio Design

• Hi-Fi Rush (Tango Gameworks/Bethesda Softworks)

Best Performance

• Neil Newbon, Baldur’s Gate 3

Innovation in Accessibility

• Forza Motorsport (Turn 10 Studios/Xbox Game Studios)

Games for Impact

• Tchia (Awaceb/Kepler Interactive)

Best Ongoing Game

• Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt Red)

Best Community Support

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

Best Independent Game

• Sea of Stars (Sabotage Studio)

Best Debut Indie Game

• Cocoon (Geometric Interactive/Annapurna Interactive)

Best Mobile Game

• Honkai: Star Rail (HoYoverse)

Best VR/AR Game

• Resident Evil Village VR Mode (Capcom)

Best Action Game

• Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (FromSoftware/Bandai Namco)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best RPG

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

Best Fighting Game

• Street Fighter 6 (Capcom)

Best Family Game

• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Sim/Strategy Game

• Pikmin 4 (Nintendo EPD/Nintendo)

Best Sports/Racing

• Forza Motorsport (Turn 10 Studios/Xbox Game Studios)

Best Multiplayer Presented by Discord

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

Most Anticipated Game

• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)

Content Creator of the Year

• IronMouse

Best Esports Game

• Valorant (Riot Games)

Best Esports Athlete

• Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok (League of Legends)

Best Esports Team

• JD Gaming (League of Legends)

Best Esports Coach

• Christine “potter” Chi (Evil Geniuses – Valorant)

Best Esports Event

• 2023 League of Legends World Championship

Player’s Voice

• Baldur’s Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

Last night’s award ceremony boasted many celebrity presenters and is available to watch on YouTube. Variety reports:

…The tech-based awards show did not skimp on star power, as it brought out Matthew McConaughey to introduce Archetype Entertainment’s sci-fi space adventure, Exodus. And in a surprise appearance, writer-director Jordan Peele teamed up with horror game icon Hideo Kojima to announce an upcoming mystery game named OD, starring Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier. Kojima and Peele boasted that the game pushes the boundary of the genre and functions as both a movie and a video game. 

Some of the other big names present included Anthony Mackie, Ed Boon, Simu Liu, Zedd, and the cast of Prime Video’s Fallout, Aaron Moten, Ella Purnell, and Walton Goggins….