Elden Ring, the acclaimed action role-playing game from renowned game director Hidetaka Miyazaki and fantasy writer George R. R. Martin, has been awarded the Game of the Year award at the 23rd Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Elden Ring also won Best Visual Art and Best Design awards.
Related: Elden Ring announces its first expansion Shadow of the Erdtree
The awards were live-streamed on the official Twitch channel for the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at Twitch and are archived both on Twitch and the official GDC YouTube channel.
The 23rd Annual Game Developers Choice Awards winners are:
Best Debut
Stray (BlueTwelve Studio/Annapurna Interactive)
Best Visual Art
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Best Audio
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Narrative
Pentiment (Obsidian Entertainment/Xbox Game Studios)
Social Impact Award
Citizen Sleeper (Jump Over The Age/Fellow Traveller)
Innovation Award
IMMORTALITY (Half Mermaid Productions)
Best Technology
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Best Design
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Audience Award
God of War Ragnarök (Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Game of the Year
Elden Ring (FromSoftware Inc./Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Pioneer Award
Mabel Addis
Lifetime Achievement Award
John Romero
Elden Ring previously won The Game Awards, Steam Awards, and New York Game Awards in 2022 and was declared the game of the year by many gamers.
Elden Ring’s first expansion Shadow of the Erdtree, was announced last month, and the game celebrated 20 million sales just a few days before its first anniversary.
