The nominee list came out for the 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards, with games like Stray and Elden Ring making the cut. Several of these games were also at The Game Awards for 2022. The Game Developers Choice Awards for this year will take place from March 20 to 24, 2023 in San Francisco, USA.
Here is the full list of nominees (as well as honorable mentions) for the 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards:
Best Debut
- Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive)
- NORCO (Geography of Robots, Raw Fury)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
- TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)
- Vampire Survivors (poncle)
Honorable Mentions: Chained Echoes, Cult of the Lamb, marvel Snap, The Case of the Golden Idol, Trombone Champ
Best Audio
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Metal: Hellsinger (The Outsiders, Funcom)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
Honorable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Neon White, Persona 5 Royal, Splatoon 3, TUNIC
Best Design
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- Marvel Snap (Second Dinner Studios, Inc., Nuverse)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
- TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)
Honorable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb, Dwarf Fortress, God of War Ragnarok, IMMORTALITY, Vampire Survivors
Best Narrative
- God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games, Finji)
- IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
- Return to Monkey Island (Terrible Toybox, Devolver Digital)
Honorable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Citizen Sleeper, Horizon Forbidden West, NORCO, Roadwarden
Best Technology
- A Plague Tale: Requiem (Asobo Studio, Focus Entertainment)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Infinity Ward, Raven Software, Beenox, Treyarch, High Moon Studios, Sledgehammer Games, Activision Shanghai, Demonware, Toys for Bob, Activision)
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Honorable Mentions: Dwarf Fortress, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, IMMORTALITY, Stray, Teardown
Best Visual Art
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Guerilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
Honorable Mentions: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Cult of the Lamb, Neon White, OlliOlli World, TUNIC
Innovation Award
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc., Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Neon White (Angel Matrix, Annapurna Interactive)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
Honorable Mentions: Cult of the Lamb, Dwarf Fortress, God of War Ragnarok, Horizon Forbidden West, Trombone Champ
Social Impact Award
- As Dusk Falls (INTERIOR/NIGHT, Xbox Game Studios)
- Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age, Fellow Traveller)
- Endling – Extinction Is Forever (Herobeat Studios, HandyGames)
- I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Northway Games, Finji)
- OlliOlli World (Roll7, Private Division)
- We Are OFK (Team OFK)
Honorable Mentions: Before Your Eyes, God of War Ragnarok, Hindsight, NORCO, Terra Nil
Game of the Year
- Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc, Bandai Namco Entertainment)
- God of War Ragnarok (Santa Monica Studio, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- IMMORTALITY (Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid)
- Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment, Xbox Game Studio)
- Stray (BlueTwelve Studio, Annapurna Interactive)
- TUNIC (TUNIC Team, Finji)
Honorable Mentions: CitizenSleeper, Cult of the Lamb, Horizon Forbidden West, Marvel Snap, Neon White, Vampire Survivors
Games that came out during 2022 are eligible for nomination, and the International Choice Awards Network chose them. ICAN is also the organization that will choose the winners. It is also comprised of creators in the video game industry.
The 2023 Game Developers Choice Awards will take place from March 20 to 24, 2023, and the ceremony for the winners will be on March 22, 2023. There will be a stream of the event on the GDC Twitch channel.
