The Game Award for Best Action/Adventure Game
The Game Awards · 67 nominations across 12 ceremonies · 12 wins
The Game Awards 2025 · 2025
- Winner Hollow Knight: Silksong · Team Cherry
- Nominee Ghost of Yōtei · Sucker Punch Productions
- Nominee Death Stranding 2: On the Beach · Kojima Productions
- Nominee Split Fiction · Hazelight Studios
- Nominee Indiana Jones and the Great Circle · MachineGames
The Game Awards 2024 · 2024
- Winner Astro Bot · Team Asobi
- Nominee Star Wars Outlaws · Massive Entertainment
- Nominee The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom · Grezzo
- Nominee Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown · Ubisoft Montpellier
- Nominee Silent Hill 2 · Bloober Team
The Game Awards 2023 · 2023
- Winner The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom · Monolith Soft Inc., Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
- Nominee Resident Evil 4 · Capcom
- Nominee Alan Wake 2 · Remedy Entertainment
- Nominee Star Wars Jedi: Survivor · Respawn Entertainment
- Nominee Spider-Man 2 · Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software
The Game Awards 2022 · 2022
- Winner God of War Ragnarök · Jetpack Interactive, Santa Monica Studio
- Nominee Horizon Forbidden West · Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Nominee Stray · BlueTwelve Studio
- Nominee A Plague Tale: Requiem · Asobo Studio
- Nominee Tunic · Isometricorp Games
The Game Awards 2021 · 2021
- Winner Metroid Dread · MercurySteam, Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
- Nominee Guardians of the Galaxy · Eidos Montreal
- Nominee Psychonauts 2 · Double Fine
- Nominee Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart · Insomniac Games
- Nominee Resident Evil Village · Capcom
The Game Awards 2020 · 2020
- Winner The Last of Us Part II · Naughty Dog
- Nominee Ghost of Tsushima · Sucker Punch Productions
- Nominee Ori and the Will of the Wisps · Moon Studios
- Nominee Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order · Criterion Games, Panic Button, Respawn Entertainment
- Nominee Assassin's Creed Valhalla · Ubisoft Montreal
- Nominee Spider-Man: Miles Morales · Insomniac Games
The Game Awards 2019 · 2019
- Winner Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice · FromSoftware
- Nominee Resident Evil 2 · Capcom
- Nominee The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening · Grezzo
- Nominee Control · Remedy Entertainment
- Nominee Death Stranding · Guerrilla Games, Kojima Productions
- Nominee Borderlands 3 · Gearbox Software
The Game Awards 2018 · 2018
- Winner God of War · Jetpack Interactive, Santa Monica Studio
- Nominee Assassin's Creed Odyssey · Ubisoft Quebec
- Nominee Red Dead Redemption 2 · Rockstar San Diego
- Nominee Spider-Man · Insomniac Games
- Nominee Shadow of the Tomb Raider · Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, Nixxes Software
The Game Awards 2017 · 2017
- Winner The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild · Monolith Soft Inc., Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development
- Nominee Uncharted: The Lost Legacy · Naughty Dog
- Nominee Assassin's Creed Origins · Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft Kyiv, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Romania, Ubisoft Shanghai, Ubisoft Singapore
- Nominee Super Mario Odyssey · Nintendo
- Nominee Horizon Zero Dawn · Guerrilla Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Game Awards 2016 · 2016
- Winner Dishonored 2 · Arkane Studios
- Nominee Uncharted 4: A Thief's End · Naughty Dog
- Nominee Ratchet & Clank · Insomniac Games
- Nominee Hyper Light Drifter · Heart Machine
- Nominee Hitman · IO Interactive
The Game Awards 2015 · 2015
- Winner Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain · Kojima Productions
- Nominee Rise of the Tomb Raider · Crystal Dynamics
- Nominee The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt · CD Projekt RED
- Nominee Bloodborne · FromSoftware, Japan Studio
- Nominee Pillars of Eternity · Obsidian Entertainment
- Nominee Ori and the Blind Forest · Moon Studios
- Nominee Fallout 4 · Bethesda Game Studios
- Nominee Assassin's Creed Syndicate · Ubisoft Quebec
- Nominee Undertale · 8-4
- Nominee Batman: Arkham Knight · Rocksteady Studios
The Game Awards 2014 · 2014
- Winner Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor · Feral Interactive, Monolith Productions
- Nominee Bayonetta 2 · PlatinumGames
- Nominee Sunset Overdrive · Insomniac Games
- Nominee Alien: Isolation · Creative Assembly
- Nominee Assassin's Creed Unity · Ubisoft Montreal