The Game Awards 2019: Did your favourite game win Game of the Year?

The Game Awards 2019 just wrapped up its sixth annual awards ceremony, recognising many of 2019’s best games in multiple categories. These games span multiple platforms - PC, console and mobile, with esports also being recognised in several categories. 

Here’s the full list of every winner at The Game Awards 2019:

GAME OF THE YEAR

Control (Remedy / 505 Games)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora / Bandai Namco / Nintendo)

The Outer Worlds (Obsidian / Private Division)

ACTION GAME

Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)

Astral Chain (Platinum Games / Nintendo)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward / Activision)

Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom)

Gears 5 (The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios)

Metro Exodus (4A Games / Deep Silver)

ACTION/ADVENTURE GAME

Borderlands 3 (Gearbox / 2K)

Control (Remedy / 505 Games)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Grezzo / Nintendo)

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)

ART DIRECTION 

Control (Remedy / 505 Games)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

GRIS (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)

Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo / Annapurna)

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Grezzo / Nintendo)

AUDIO DESIGN

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward / Activision)

Control (Remedy / 505 Games)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

Gears 5 (The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios)

Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)

COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)

Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)

CONTENT CREATOR OF THE YEAR

Courage (Jack Dunlop)

Dr. Lupo (Benjamin Lupo)

Ewok (Soleil Wheeler)

Grefg (David Martínez)

Shroud (Michael Grzesiek)

ESPORTS COACH

Eric ‘Adren’ Hoag (Team Liquid, CS:GO)

Nu-ri “Cain” Jang (Team Liquid, LOL)

Fabian ‘Grabbz’ Lohmann (G2 Esports, LOL)

Kim ‘Kkoma’ Jeong-Gyun (SK Telecom T1, LOL)

Titouan ‘Sockshka’ Merloz (OG, DOTA2

Danny ‘Zonic’ Sorensen (Astralis, CS:GO)

ESPORTS EVENT

2019 Overwatch League Grand Finals

Evo 2019

Fortnite World Cup

IEM Katowice 2019

League of Legends World Championship 2019

The International 2019

ESPORTS GAME OF THE YEAR

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve)

DOTA2 (Valve)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

League of Legends (Riot Games)

Overwatch (Blizzard)

ESPORTS HOST

Eefje “Sjokz” Depoortere

Alex “Machine” Richardson

Paul “Redeye” Chaloner

Alex “Goldenboy” Mendez

Duan “Candice” Yu-Shuang

ESPORTS PLAYER

Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf (Sentinels, Fortnite)

Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-Hyeok (SK Telecon, League of Legends)

Luka ‘Perkz’ Perkovic (G2 Esports, League of Legends)

Oleksandr ‘S1mple’ Kostyliev (Natus Vincere, CS:GO)

Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won (SF Shock, Overwatch)

ESPORTS TEAM

Astralis (CS:GO)

G2 Esports (LOL)

OG (DOTA2)

San Francisco Shock (OWL)

Team Liquid (CS: GO)

FAMILY GAME

Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Next Level Games / Nintendo)

Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora / Bandai Namco / Nintendo)

Yoshi’s Crafted World (Good-Feel / Nintendo)

FIGHTING GAME

Dead or Alive 6 (Team Ninja / Koei Tecmo)

Jump Force (Spike Chunsoft / Bandai Namco)

Mortal Kombat 11 (Netherrealm / WBIE)

Samurai Shodown (SNK / Athlon)

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Sora / Bandai Namco / Nintendo)

FRESH INDIE GAME

ZA/UM (For Disco Elysium)

Nomada Studio (For GRIS)

Deadtoast Entertainment (For My Friend Pedro)

Mobius Digital (For Outer Wilds)

Mega Crit (For Slay the Spire)

House House (For Untitled Goose Game)

GAME DIRECTION

Control (Remedy / 505 Games)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

Resident Evil 2 (Capcom)

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software / Activision)

Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital / Annapurna)

GAMES FOR IMPACT

Concrete Genie (Pixelopus / SIE)

GRIS (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)

Kind Words (Popcannibal)

Life is Strange 2 (Dontnod / Square Enix)

Sea of Solitude (Jo-Mei Games / EA)

INDEPENDENT GAME

Baba is You (Hempuli)

Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)

Katana Zero (Askiisoft / Devolver Digital)

Outer Wilds (Mobius Digital / Annapurna)

Untitled Goose Game (House House / Panic)

MOBILE GAME

Call of Duty: Mobile (Timi Studios / Activision)

Grindstone (Capybara Games)

Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo / Annapurna)

Sky: Children of the Light (ThatGameCompany)

What the Golf? (Triband)

MULTIPLAYER GAME

Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)

Borderlands 3 (Gearbox / 2K)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward/ Activision)

Tetris 99 (Arika / Nintendo)

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (Massive Entertainment / Ubisoft)

NARRATIVE

A Plague Tale: Innocence (Asobo / Focus Home)

Control (Remedy / 505 Games)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)

The Outer Worlds (Obsidian / Private Division)

ONGOING GAME

Apex Legends (Respawn / EA)

Destiny 2 (Bungie)

Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

Fortnite (Epic Games)

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)

PERFORMANCE

Ashly Burch as Parvati Holcomb (The Outer Worlds)

Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden (Control)

Laura Bailey as Kait Diaz (Gears 5)

Mads Mikkelsen as Cliff (Death Stranding)

Matthew Porretta as Dr. Casper Darling (Control)

Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges (Death Stranding)

ROLE-PLAYING GAME

Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)

Final Fantasy XIV (Square Enix)

Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix)

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne (Capcom)

The Outer Worlds (Obsidian / Private Division)

SCORE & MUSIC

Cadence of Hyrule (Brace Yourself Games / Nintendo)

Death Stranding (Kojima Productions / SIE)

Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom)

Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix)

Sayonara Wild Hearts (Simogo / Annapurna)

SPORTS/RACING GAME

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Beenox / Activision)

Dirt Rally 2.0 (Codemasters / Deep Silver)

eFootball Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 (PES Productions / Konami)

F1 2019 (Codemasters / Deep Silver)

FIFA 20 (EA Sports)

STRATEGY GAME

Age of Wonders: Planetfall (Triumph Studios / Paradox)

ANNO 1800 (Blue Byte / Ubisoft)

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Intelligent Systems / Koei Tecmo / Nintendo)

Total War: Three Kingdoms (Creative Assembly / SEGA)

Tropico 6 (Limbic Entertainment / Kalypso Media)

Wargroove (Chucklefish)

VR/AR GAME

Asgard’s Wrath (Sanzaru Games / Oculus Studios)

Blood & Truth (SIE London Studio / SIE)

Beat Saber (Beat Games)

No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)

Trover Saves the Universe (Squanch Games)

Did these games deserve their wins? 

There you have it! These are the best of the best of videogames in 2019. Of course, these aren’t the only only annual game awards by a long shot - IGN for example, recently named Control as their game of the year. However, The Game Awards hosted by Geoff Keighley continue to be the biggest and most prestigious annual game awards show.

Of course, not everyone will be happy with the winners - I certainly would have made a different call in a couple categories, but that debate is all part of the fun. Personally, I wouldn’t have picked Sekiro as game of the year - that would go to Resident Evil 2 (which I thought was perfect in every way). However, this was a pretty competitive year, with multiple objectively great games in their own genres - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate being such a fantastic fighting game, for example. 

They may not be our picks - but it all goes to show that gamers are presented with an embarrassment of riches year after year. There are so many great games to play - how are we supposed to agree on which specific one is the best of all? 

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